Category: Jo Nesbo

Genre: Thriller “How are we to start this story?” Certainly not at the beginning since “Ulf” has just arrived, by bus, on the Finnmark peninsula in far northern Norway. He is coming from the south…..Oslo, where he stole money from the biggest baddest drug dealer (who he was working for) in Oslo….the Fisherman. Now Ulf…

Genre: Thriller Olav is a “fixer”. He has tried other professions like pimp or selling drugs but he has weaknesses in both that preclude him from excelling in those areas. Olav excels at killing people. Working for big time drug dealer, Daniel Hoffmann, Olav just finished a fix, and now Hoffmann has another job…..to fix…

Genre: Thriller After the events of “The Snowman”……Harry Hole has disappeared. Again…. His boss, Gunnar Hagen has sent Detective Kaja Solness to find him, and, following a lead…..she did. On the bright side, Harry is not getting drunk on alcohol as he tends to do between books, nope not Harry, now he is whacked out…

Genre: Thriller “His voice sounded like a dry whisper in her ear. As if it were important no one else heard them. We’re going to die.“ Detective Harry Hole wakes to a new day. The love of Harry’s life, his ex-girlfriend Rakel, has a new boyfriend. A Doctor…..and Harry is both happy for her, and…

Genre: Thriller 1991 Croatia A young Croatian messenger was unafraid of anything. Seeing the war was not going well for his side, he volunteered to attach explosives to Serbian tanks as they tried to attack his home town of Zagreb. This young messenger did such an outstanding job, his commander gave him a nickname that…

Genre: Thriller “Tick, tick, tick. …Harry, his eyes closed, had counted the nine hundred ticks from the Rolex watch on the wrist of the blood-covered arm on the lift floor, and…. Tick, tick, tick.“ After the events in the last book, “Nemesis”, Detective Harry Hole took a turn for the worse by falling, once again,…

Harry (a raging alcoholic) stays sober throughout the book. And that’s a good thing……since Harry needs to keep his head clear as his own murder could be next.

Genre: Mystery “Hi, this is Ellen and Helge’s answerphone. Please leave a message.”  Thus starts the most devastating, heartbreaking, powerful, and brilliant, ten pages in a book that I have EVER read. “The Redbreast” is the third Harry Hole novel and follows the lives of several people (in addition to Harry) spanning the time from…

Genre: Thriller / Mystery Norwegian Detective Harry Hole has been drinking steadily since his success in Australia (see my review of “The Bat”). The Norwegian Ambassador to Thailand,  has been found, by the hooker he hired, murdered in a Bangkok motel room.  A knife stuck in his back. The Norwegian authorities know more than they…

(Tense Murder Mystery) Genre: Thriller / Mystery — Buy! — Roger Brown is Norway’s top headhunter. When he recommends someone to a client, the company knows he or she is the right person for the position. Roger Brown is also an art thief. When he interviews people for jobs, he finds out if they have…