Jo Nesbo, trans. from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett.. Knopf, $25.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-307-59586-7
In this chilling installment in Nesbø's Insp. Harry Hole crime series (The Devil's Star, etc.), a snowman left in the front yard of Birte Becker's Oslo house is the only clue to the woman's disappearance. When Sylvia Ottersen disappears from her...
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Jo Nesbo, Author, Mike Lowery, Illustrator , trans. by Tara Chace, illus. by Mike Lowery. S&S/Aladdin $14.99 (265p) ISBN 978-1-4169-7972-2
Provocative title aside, Norwegian author Nesbø's children's book debut is a sweet, silly, and often amusing tale. A very small boy named Nilly moves to Oslo, Norway, where he quickly meets the titular mad scientist, who has...
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Jo Nesbo, Author, Don Bartlett, Translator , trans. from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett. HarperCollins $24.95 (519p) ISBN 978-0-06-113399-2
Shifting effortlessly between the last days of WWII on the Eastern front and modern day Oslo, Norwegian Nesbø (The Devil's Star
) spins a complex tale of murder, revenge and betrayal. A recovering alcoholic recently reassigned to the...
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Jo Nesbo, Author, Don Bartlett, Translator , trans. from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett. Harper $25.95 (474p) ISBN 978-0-06-165550-0
Two thrillers with the same title—one a contemporary Norwegian crime novel, the other a historical featuring legendary lawman Eliot Ness—are due in the new year.
Nemesis
Jo Nesbø
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Jo Nesbo, Author, Don Bartlett, Translator , trans. from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett. Harper $25.99 (452p) ISBN 978-0-06-113397-8
A serial killer taunts Harry Hole in Nesbø's searing third crime novel to feature the Oslo police detective to be made available in the U.S. (after Nemesis
). Still suffering from alcohol-fueled demons and obsessed with hunting for...
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Jo Nesbø, trans. from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett. Vintage/Black Lizard, $14.95 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-0-307-94868-7
Nesbø takes a break from his Harry Hole detective series (The Snowman, etc.) with this stellar stand-alone caper. Roger Brown, a British ex-pat comfortably ensconced in Oslo, has developed a reputation as one of the best corporate headhunters in the
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Jo Nesbø, trans. from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett. Knopf, $26.95 (544p) ISBN 978-0-307-59587-4
In Nesbø’s outstanding follow-up to The Snowman (May 2011), Insp. Harry Hole reluctantly agrees to return home from Hong Kong, where he’s been hiding out for months, after an Oslo Crime Squad colleague tells him his father is in the hospital....
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Jo Nesb%C3%B8, trans. from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett. Knopf, $25.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-307-96047-4
In Nesbø’s deeply moving seventh Harry Hole novel to be published in the U.S. (after 2011’s The Leopard), Harry returns to Oslo from Hong Kong to help his estranged 18-year-old son, Oleg, who has fallen in with a group of drug users and is now...
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Jo Nesbø, trans. from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett. Vintage/Black Lizard, $14.95 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-0-345-80709-0
First published in 1997, Nesbø’s inaugural Harry Hole novel, finally translated into English, takes the Oslo homicide detective to Sydney, Australia, where he displays all the brilliance and angst that Harry’s fans have come to expect, after reading
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Jo Nesbø, trans. from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett. Knopf, $25.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-307-96049-8
The life of Insp. Harry Hole, who was shot in the head by his surrogate son in the finale of 2012’s Phantom, hangs in the balance for much of Nesbø’s powerful 10th novel featuring the Oslo homicide cop. Secondary players who have helped out along...
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Jo Nesbø, trans. from the Norwegian by Charlotte Barslund. Knopf, $25.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-385-35137-9
This excellent standalone from Nesbø, best known for his Harry Hole series (Police, etc.), centers on Sonny Lofthus (aka the Son), who’s serving a sentence at Oslo’s Staten Maximum Security Prison for two murders to which he confessed but which he...
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Jo Nesbø, trans. from the Norwegian by Neil Smith. Knopf, $23.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-385-35419-6
Olav—a hit man, or “fixer”—narrates this thin standalone from Nesbø (The Son) set in 1970s Oslo. His boss, drug kingpin Daniel Hoffmann, has an unusual assignment for Olav: “He wanted me to fix his wife.” Olav sets up surveillance on the beautiful...
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Jo Nesbø, trans. from the Norwegian by Neil Smith. Knopf, $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-385-35420-2
Jon, the narrator of this excellent standalone from Edgar-finalist Nesbø, is a “fixer,” or hit man, akin to the hero of 2015’s Blood on Snow. Jon, who has done jobs for an Oslo crime boss known as the Fisherman, has fled the city for Kåsund, a tiny...
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Jo Nesbø, read by Robin Sachs. Random House Audio, unabridged, 13 CDs, 16.25 hrs., $40 ISBN 978-0-449-01363-2
Harry Hole returns in this ninth Scandinavian mystery from bestselling author Nesbø. After a three-year, self-imposed absence, former police detective Hole is drawn back to Oslo when the son of the woman he loves is arrested for the murder of a low-l
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Jo Nesbø, read by John Lee. Random House Audio, unabridged, 11 CDs, 14 hrs., $40 ISBN 978-0-307-91754-6
This sixth installment in Nesbø’s popular series finds Harry Hole, Oslo’s most successful and least collaborative police investigator, spending the Christmas season trying to unravel a knotty murder case while bemoaning the loss of a friendly...
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Jo Nesbø, trans. by Don Bartlett, read by John Lee. Random House Audio, unabridged, 14 CDs, 16.5 hrs., $45 ISBN 978-0-8041-6388-0
For roughly a third of Nesbø’s new novel, Oslo police detective Harry Hole is missing—not surprising considering he was felled by a headshot at the end of 2012’s Phantom. In his stead, associates struggle to work around venal police chief Mikael...
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Jo Nesbø, trans. from the Norwegian by Charlotte Barslund, read by Gildart Jackson. Random House Audio, , unabridged, 14 CDs, 17.5 hrs., $45 ISBN 978-0-553-39782-6
At the beginning of this standalone from Nesbø—the reigning master of the Norwegian crime thriller, best known for his Harry Hole series (Police, etc.)—Sonny Lofthus is serving time in a maximum-security prison for crimes he didn’t commit, in...
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Jo Nesb%C3%B8, trans. from the Norwegian by Neil Smith, read by Patti Smith. Random House Audio, , unabridged, 4 CDs, 4 hrs., $30 ISBN 978-0-553-54595-1
Nesbø, the leading light of Norwegian noir, returns with this slim standalone thriller about a hit man with a heart of gold. Olav is a contract killer in 1970s Oslo, working for a ruthless drug kingpin named Daniel Hoffman. Hoffman orders Olav to...
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Jo Nesbø, trans. from the Norwegian by Neil Smith, read by Kim Gordon. Random House Audio, , unabridged, 5 CDs, 6 hrs., $30 ISBN 978-0-553-54599-9
This short Norwegian thriller focuses on an antihero (in this case a sympathetic one) involved with a brutal Oslo crime lord known as the Fisherman. The story unfolds from the perspective of Jon, who uses his reputation as a killer to gain a high-pay
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Jo Nesbø, trans. from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett. Random, $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-307-59585-0
The first chapter of Nesbø’s highly suspenseful sixth Harry Hole thriller introduces 17-year-old Robert Karlsen and his year older brother, Jon, who in 1991 are cadets at a Salvation Army retreat in the Norwegian countryside, where a 14-year-old...
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Jo Nesbø, trans. from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett. Hogarth Shakespeare, $27 (464p) ISBN 978-0-553-41905-4
In this ambitious entry in the Hogarth Shakespeare series, bestseller Nesbø (The Thirst and 10 other Harry Hole novels) transmutes Macbeth into a crime novel set in 1970s Scotland. Macbeth heads the SWAT team in a dreary city called Capitol,...
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Jo Nesbø, trans. from the Norwegian by Neil Smith. Knopf, $28 (256p) ISBN 978-0-593-53716-9
Bestselling crime writer Nesbø takes a break from his Harry Hole detective series with this wild and ambitious but not entirely successful three-part horror opus. The first and longest section is narrated by Richard Elauved, a rambunctious 14-year-ol
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Jo Nesbø, trans. from the Norwegian by Seán Kinsella. Knopf, $29 (496p) ISBN 978-0-593-53696-4
Nesbø’s 13th Harry Hole novel (after 2019’s Knife) covers familiar terrain in a too familiar way. Norwegian sleuth Hole has left the Oslo police after a tragedy and relocated, broke and despondent, to sunny California. At the start, Hole saves...
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Jo Nesbø, trans. from the Norwegian by Neil Smith. Knopf, $26.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-385-35216-1
Bestseller Nesbø’s exceptional 11th Harry Hole novel (after 2013’s Police) finds the alcoholic, demon-ridden, occasionally suicidal Oslo police detective in better shape than usual. Harry is “currently a sober lecturer at Police College.” In the...
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Jo Nesbø, trans. from the Norwegian by Neil Smith, read by John Lee. Random House Audio, unabridged, 14 CDs, 17 hrs., $45 ISBN 978-1-5247-3512-8
Actor Lee delivers an excellent, nuanced performance in this audio edition of the latest installment of Nesbø’s Harry Hole series. As the book opens, former detective Hole is an instructor at a police college in Oslo, but he’s quickly drawn in to...
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Jo Nesbø, trans. from the from the Norwegian by Robert Ferguson. Knopf, $28.95 (528p) ISBN 978-0-593-32100-3
The 12 tales in this impressive collection from bestseller Nesbø (the Harry Hole series) blend taut suspense with sharply limned characters. “Rat Island” is the highlight, a dystopian tale set in the U.S. after a devastating pandemic. The health...
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Jo Nesbø, trans. from the Norwegian by Robert Ferguson. Knopf, $28.95 (560p) ISBN 978-0-525-65541-1
This twisty standalone from bestseller Nesbø (the Harry Hole series) centers on the complex relationship between brothers Roy and Carl Opgard, who grew up in a remote Norwegian village. In a hunting mishap, 15-year-old Carl mortally wounds the...
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