Jo Nesbo
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Librarian note: Please do not change author's name; while "Nesbø" is the correct spelling, BookLikes search does not translate the ø, making him invisible in the search function when searching for 'Jo Nesbo'. Please see http://booklikes.com/thread/1925/authors-to-merge?p=3 message #57.
Jo Nesbø (Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈju ˈnɛsbø]) is a Glass Key award winning Norwegian author and musician. As of March 2014 more than 3 million copies of his novels have been sold in Norway, and his work has been translated into over 40 languages, selling 23 million copies. Nesbø is primarily known for his crime novels about Inspector Harry Hole, but he is also the main vocalist and songwriter for the Norwegian rock band Di Derre. In 2007 Nesbø also released his first children's book, Doktor Proktors Prompepulver (English translation: Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder). The 2011 film Headhunters is based on Nesbø's novel Hodejegerne (The Headhunters).
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Birth date: 1960-03-29
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This is the 10th outing for Nesbo’s brilliant yet somewhat troubled maverick detective Harry Hole. The plot is interesting, police officers are being murdered at the site of crimes they failed to solve in the distant past and Oslo’s finest are frankly clueless as to how to approach the case, never m...
Ok let's be honest Harry Hole is a cliche detective, and there are many similarities between him and Ian Rankin's great creation Rebus. They both like working outside the law, they are happy to use unconventional methods to achieve results. Alcohol and cigarettes fuel their ambition, and the odd fem...
Oh, I wanted to love this. I did. I truly did. But . . but.. Okay - I love the SWAT and drug use. The witches were cool in this. But I kept thinking Norway instead of Scotland which was weird, and then started wondering what Ian Rankin would have done. And then it was -so Macbeth and Lady ...
Harry Hole book #9Jo Nesbo certainly can do plots but I found “The Phantom” to be less outlandish than some of his previous Hole novels. It is a story very hard to follow.“Violin” is the new synthetic drug: potent and plays havoc with Oslo’s population and its distribution is controlled by a Russian...
Harry Hole book #9Jo Nesbo certainly can do plots but I found “The Phantom” to be less outlandish than some of his previous Hole novels. It is a story very hard to follow.“Violin” is the new synthetic drug: potent and plays havoc with Oslo’s population and its distribution is controlled by a Russian...
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