Police: The compelling tenth Harry Hole novel from the No.1 Sunday Times bestseller (Harry Hole, 10)

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Two young women are missing. Strangers to each other, but last seen at the same party. When the body of one of them is found with fresh stitches along her hairline the hunt is on to find a murderer with very particular tastes. Drugs stuff. High level. If he wakes up he probably has the goods to bring down some important heroin dealers in Oslo. Plus he can tell us who was trying to kill him.’ Another sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan.

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It slowly dawned on Anton. The fast reaction to a missing-person message. The rapidly traced satnav He looked at his monitor. A hundred and seventy-five. A hundred and seventy-two. A welcome little gust of wind carried the sound of distant cheering up from the town. It must have been from Ullevål Stadium – there was an important international match this evening. Slovakia or Slovenia. Erlend Vennesla imagined for a few seconds that they had been applauding for him. It was a while since anyone had done that. The police still hadn’t solved the Hanssen case, and the eighteen-year-old boy who had initially been arrested had been released. Mostly because they hadn’t been able to find, or link him to, any murder weapon. The boy’s name was Oleg Fauke and he woke every night staring into the darkness and hearing the shots. Not those that had killed Gusto, but the others. The ones he had fired at the policeman who had been a father to him when he was growing up. Who he had once dreamt would marry his mother, Rakel. Harry Hole. In Harry Hole, [Nesbo has] created the most complex, compelling and at times frustrating detective... Probably his best yet Cherie Blair, Mail on Sunday

Nesbø is one of today's most interesting thriller writers, a 100% buy-today-read-tonight delight' Lee Child Erlend Vennesla stared ahead in astonishment and felt a hot bead of sweat run down his forehead. He spoke, but the words were incoherent, as though there were a fault in the connection between brain and mouth. Again he heard a soft whistle. Then sound went. All sound, he couldn’t even hear his own breathing. And he discovered that he was on his knees and his bike was slowly tipping over into a ditch. Before him danced a yellow light, but it disappeared when the bead of sweat reached the ridge of his nose, ran into his eyes and blinded him. Jo Nesbo's is not trying to renew the crime genre. He doesn't need to, 'cause he is one of those who masters the genre the very best, whether we're looking at the shelves of Norwegian or translated crime writers." - Aftenbladet (Norway)

Police: The compelling tenth Harry Hole novel from the No.1

Starred Review. A surprise ending promises a fresh start for a series that had appeared to end with its previous novel." - Kirkus The novel introduces many of Harry’s flaws. You see his alcoholism first hand as well as get some insight into what his problem has caused in the past. The novel is fast paced with a developed mystery that keeps the reader guessing until the culprit is revealed. Although this was the very first novel in the series it was not translated into English until later. He was asleep in there, behind the door. The guarded hospital room smelt of medicine and paint. The monitor beside him registered his heartbeats. Isabelle Skøyen, the Councillor for Social Affairs at Oslo City Hall, and Mikael Bellman, the newly appointed Chief of Police, hoped they would never see him again. Before becoming a crime writer, Nesbo played football for Norway’s premier league team Molde, but his dream of playing professionally for Spurs was dashed when he tore ligaments in his knee at the age of eighteen. After three years military service he attended business school and formed the band Di Derre (‘Them There’). They topped the charts in Norway, but Nesbo continued working as a financial analyst, crunching numbers during the day and gigging at night. When commissioned by a publisher to write a memoir about life on the road with his band, he instead came up with the plot for his first Harry Hole crime novel, The Bat.A gyilkosságok okát én elég eltúlzottnak érzem, nem beszélve ezek mikéntjéről. Beate Lønn -nal nem bánt kesztyűs kézzel a szerző. Számomra ő mindenképpen hiányozni fog a következő részekből. Igencsak raffinált módon tálalja Nesbo a történetet. Úgy voltam vele, hogy a korábbi kötet vége nem jelenheti a főszereplő halálát, Harry Hole nem halhat meg, hiszen nélküle nem folytatódhat a sorozat. Sejtettem, hogy valamiféle csali van a „beteg ” körül. Már mindent kigondoltam, sőt a halálát is állítólagosnak gondoltam, hogy aztán jöjjön a nagy csavar. Persze nem ez az egyetlen, ahol Nesbo tévútra vezet. A végén az a templomos jelenet is elég baljóslatú felvezetést kapott, de itt már nem tudott megvezetni a szerző. Annál inkább a többi események során. Kombináltam össze-vissza, mindenki gyanúsnak tűnt, csak éppen arra nem gondoltam, aki szinte végig az orrom előtt volt. He did,’ said Beate Lønn, nodding in the direction of the police officer’s car. They could hear the engine Having upped the ante with the previous novel in the Harry Hole series, the author goes for broke here. Police consolidates, and probably also reinforces, Jo Nesbo's position as the world champion of crime fiction." - Adresseavisen (Norway)