I am falling madly in love with this series. Fortunately I don't feel the need to consume the entire series all at once, as with Harry Potter or Steig Larsson or [a:Jasper Fforde|4432|Jasper Fforde|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1350497674p2/4432.jpg]. The Harry Hole series is one t...
Being a fan of 'Nordic Noir' TV series like The Killing, Borgen and The Bridge, I thought I was in for a treat with this book, the first Scandinavian crime thriller I've come to in written form. However, this is a formulaic and dull book which bored me so much I only got one eighth of the way throug...
Granted, I readily admit that I am not cosmopolitan. Learning other languages (haven’t tried the Rosetta Stone) has always been a challenge for me never being successful---try as I may. Fortunately (or not) here in north Florida, knowing English is good enough although I do know my fair share of ‘r...
Troublesome police detective Harry Hole can't get anyone in Oslo to believe that an illegally imported rifle is important enough to warrant an investigation.This book is so complex that it nearly defies description. There are multiple story lines, flashbacks, and numerous characters (each with a No...
According to goodreads alone, 7800 people gave this on average, 3.8 stars.I should have liked this, but to be honest it was a struggle for me to even finish.The story seems fractured, moving as it does, between two different time periods, the latter days of WWII and present day Oslo.Nesbo writes wit...
My first Jo Nesbø book - in fact the first one translated into English, so the previous two books are effectively out of reach for now. It's difficult to know if this means that I've missed key background on the main character Harry Hole or not. Either way, short of learning Norwegian, there isn't m...
Jo Nesbo, the man who spawned an entire industry in The Next Stieg Larrson stickers. Rather unfair – like sticking The Next Bristol City on the gates of Old Trafford. Jo Nesbo is the writer Stieg Larrson showed signs of becoming by the end of his trilogy.This book is the third in the Harry Hole seri...
Detective Harry Hole is transferred away from Oslo’s crime squad after he almost causes a diplomatic disaster. In his new position he is expected to keep members of the national socialists under surveillance. Although he is convinced that the new job and the accompanying promotion are just a way to ...
This is my second Harry Hole novel--I began with the most recent, The Snowman, receiving ecstatic reviews, and then jumped back to the earliest in the chronology (available in the States, anyway). Both books were enormously entertaining, right up until somewhat too-pat endings, not quite weak but w...
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