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It’s extremely difficult to accurately convey what I liked about this book without entering spoiler territory.
He’s run away to LA, his credit card is maxed out and he’s drinking in a dive bar with an actress in her 60s who owes money to a Mexican gang. In any event, at the end of the day, I can say one thing: I think I now have 12 more books to read on my ever-growing To Be Read pile. She’s kidnapped and Harry is forced to take on a case as a private detective in his native Norway to pay for the ransom. There are some creepy moments; how could there not be with someone being sucked into a phone, but I was hoping this would be heavy on the fright. It’s a very strange and rag-tag team that he has around him to investigate the case, a dying psychologist, a taxi driver turned drug dealer, and a cop currently on suspension on suspicion of skimming drugs himself, but somehow, against all of the odds, they really do work well together.
Born in Oslo, Nesbo grew up in Molde, a small city on the west coast of Norway, where his parents, Per and Kirsten, took him and his two brothers when he was eight years old.
For my money, the best novels are The Snowman, The Leopard, and Police, but Police kicked all their asses.Luckily for him Harry Hole is in need of a serious financial incentive and so Harry flies from the city of Angels back to Oslo to do some private investigation. This makes Røed a person of interest in the homicides, and Røed hopes Harry Hole will finger someone else. There are a number of suspects, people of dubious character and varying degree of enthusiasm and, dare I say, obsession, that we meet over the course of the book, the author doing a grand job of deflecting suspicion from the obvious and making out attention flit from one to the other at a great pace of knots. Make no mistake: you’re not coming to the Harry Hole series expecting high literature, even if its author is infatuated with Shakespeare and underground alternative bands of the 1980s and ’90s. I wanted him to solve the murders, reconcile with his old police mates and single-handedly clean up the streets of Oslo.
Richard is adamant that he had nothing to do with Tom’s disappearance and that Tom was sucked through a phone in a phone booth. I am eager to see what happens to Harry Hole and what Jo Nesbø feels is yet to come for his protagonist, especially with some of the revelations that come to the surface herein. You might be asking yourself the question: do I have to read the previous 12 books in this series first before diving into this one? When, for years, you’ve tacitly allowed all those young, hopeful actors to walk into Weinstein’s’ office alone because you with all your millions, by speaking out might—might—miss out on yet another million-dollar role, then I think you should be publicly whipped and spat upon. This book is good, but I think this series has run its course - we've had various characters over the series, most now dead.Oh, and he only has 10 days to solve the case, or his lady friend and Harry, too, will meet their demises. Aside: this storyline was stupid and unnecessary, and it made zero impact on the larger story except to create an otherwise arbitrary deadline. Grizzled, hard-living, socially awkward detectives were once a staple of my media diet, and so I didn’t pick up the latest in Jo Nesbo’s Harry Hole series as a novice. I am a huge fan of Jo Nesbo and read all of the Harry Hole series and devoured each one within a few days.
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