This is the story about Harry finding the love of his life. Also, struggling with a loss of a loved one. And the suspicion of an assassination plan with the sale of a powerful rifle with 100% kill rate. Interesting story. He has a female partner Ellen that he like, but doesn't like him that w...
Finished: I waffled between 3 & 4 stars for this book. I liked it, but I can't say that I loved it. Perhaps because the book is 16 years old at this point, and I've read a lot of Nordic Noir in those intervening years, it doesn't feel particularly groundbreaking to me. This is potentially unfair, ...
There might be spoilers in the comments because this is one of those books you'll want to talk about with friends.I have it on good authority (*waves at Thomas*) that Harry Hole's last name doesn't rhyme with "goal". But who are we kidding. We're gonna laugh and snicker every time I mention Harry Ho...
Harry Hole is in Norway this time, and when he gets "mysteriously" promoted to Inspector in another division, he's put on to a Neo-Nazi case that's going nowhere. But then his old partner is found beaten to a pulp, right after she rang him about something extremely important to do with a rare type o...
It took six months for me to finish this book. Six months! Why? Because I found the beginning incredibly difficult to get through. For some reason though I kept picking it up after abandoning it in favour of other books, and it finally paid off. After about ten chapters, the story started to come to...
Need to add a bit of an extra star because it was very good. Plenty of complexity and a mastery of the short chapter which keeps the pace going beautifully. I had to look the author up as I couldn't decide whether the writer was a man or woman and that intrigued me. Although the detective is a man a...
A fun book, but a somewhat predictable one. I thought it could been written much tighter, and the constant switching between 1944 and contemporary times got a little irritating. Still, the lead character (Harry Hole) was interesting and offered up some depth, and in truth, it was Hole's interactions...
bookshelves: adventure, mystery-thriller, wwii, published-2000, norway, autumn-2010 Read from November 06 to 09, 2010 Ha-hah! Need a fix of some dour and chilling scandinavian murdering; it's the genre that I truly love and it's the boomerang in my reading taste. So what have we got here...... th...
Thanks to Eva for lending this to me, what fun to read. This was my first Jo Nesbo and I look forward to being entertained by the next four on my pile which Erika kindly lent to me.
Wonderfully written, and I suppose translated, this mystery does it all, it combines a tremendous sense of place, and of time with flashbacks to the Eastern Front during the Second World War where Norwegians fought along side Germans against the Russians, as well as current Norway, with an interesti...
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