Jo Nesbo
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Pub. Date
2014
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English
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-- The New York Times Book ReviewSonny Lofthus has been in prison for almost half his life: serving time for crimes he didn't commit. In exchange, he gets an uninterrupted supply of heroin—and a stream of fellow prisoners seeking out his Buddha-like absolution. Years earlier Sonny’s father, a corrupt cop, took his own life rather than face exposure. Now Sonny is the center of a vortex of corruption: prison staff, police, lawyers, a desperate priest—all...
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Pub. Date
2023
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English
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NEW YORK TIMES "One of today's most interesting thriller writers." —Lee Child, author of the #1 best-selling Jack Reacher series THE HUNT IS ON AND THE POLICE ARE RUNNING OUT OF TIME. Two young women are missing, their only connection a party they both attended, hosted by a notorious real-estate magnate. When one of the women is found murdered, the police discover an unusual signature left by the killer, giving them reason to suspect he will strike...
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Detective Harry Hole volume 3
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
1944: Daniel, a soldier, legendary among the Norwegians fighting the advance of Bolshevism on the Russian front, is killed. Two years later, a wounded soldier wakes up in a Vienna hospital. He becomes involved with a young nurse, the consequences of which will ripple forward to the turn of the next century. 1999: Harry Hole, alone again after having caused an embarrassment in the line of duty, has been promoted to inspector and is lumbered with surveillance...
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Pub. Date
2016
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English
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-- Los Angeles Times Ulf was once the kingpin's fixer, but after betraying him, Ulf is now the one his former boss wants fixed. Hiding out at the end of the line in northern Norway, Ulf lives among the locals. A mother and son befriend him, and their companionship stirs something deep in him that he thought was long dead. As he awaits the inevitable arrival of his murderous pursuers, he questions if redemption is at all possible or if, as he's always...
5) Macbeth
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Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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A HEART-POUNDING NEW THRILLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SNOWMAN AND THE THIRSTSet in the 1970s in a run-down, rainy industrial town, Jo Nesbo's Macbeth centers around a police force struggling to shed an incessant drug problem. Duncan, chief of police, is idealistic and visionary, a dream to the townspeople but a nightmare for criminals. The drug trade is ruled by two drug lords, one of whom—a master of manipulation named Hecate—has connections with...
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Blood on snow volume 1
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
From the internationally acclaimed author of the Harry Hole novels-a fast, tight, darkly lyrical stand-alone novel that has at its center the perfectly sympathetic antihero: an Oslo contract killer who draws us into an unexpected meditation on death and love. This is the story of Olav: an extremely talented "fixer" for one of Oslo's most powerful crime bosses. But Olav is also an unusually complicated fixer. He has a capacity for love that is as...
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Detective Harry Hole volume 1
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
-- Don't miss Jo Nesbo's latest Harry Hole thriller, -- !
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Detective Harry Hole volume 6
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
-- Don't miss Jo Nesbo's latest Harry Hole thriller, -- !
10) The Devil's Star
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Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 5
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
A young woman is murdered in her Oslo flat. One finger has been severed from her left hand, and behind her eyelid is secreted a tiny red diamond in the shape of a five-pointed star - a pentagram, the devil's star.Detective Harry Hole is assigned to the case with his long-time adversary Tom Waaler and initially wants no part in it. But Harry is already on notice to quit the force and is left with little alternative but to drag himself out of his alcoholic...
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Detective Harry Hole volume 8
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
-- Don't miss Jo Nesbo's latest Harry Hole thriller, -- !
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Detective Harry Hole volume 7
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
-- Don't miss Jo Nesbo's latest Harry Hole thriller, -- !
13) Headhunters
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Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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-- Don't miss Jo Nesbo's new thriller, -- , coming soon!
14) The Snowman
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Internationally acclaimed crime writer Jo Nesbø's antihero police investigator, Harry Hole, is back: in a bone-chilling thriller that will take Hole to the brink of insanity.Oslo in November. The first snow of the season has fallen. A boy named Jonas wakes in the night to find his mother gone. Out his window, in the cold moonlight, he sees the snowman that inexplicably appeared in the yard earlier in the day. Around its neck is his mother's pink...
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Detective Harry Hole volume 2
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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In this #1 New York TimesWhen the Norwegian ambassador to Thailand is found dead in a Bangkok brothel, Inspector Harry Hole is dispatched from Oslo to help hush up the case.But once he arrives Harry discovers that this case is about much more than one random murder. There is something else, something more pervasive, scrabbling around behind the scenes. Or, put another way, for every cockroach you see in your hotel room, there are hundreds behind the...
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Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 9
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
-- Don't miss Jo Nesbo's latest Harry Hole thriller, -- !
19) Knife
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Detective Harry Hole volume 12
Language
English
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"Harry Hole is not in a good place. Rakel--the only woman he's ever loved--has ended it with him, permanently. He's been given a chance for a new start with the Oslo Police but it's in the cold case office, when what he really wants is to be investigating cases he suspects have ties to Svein Finne, the serial rapist and murderer who Harry helped put behind bars. And now, Finne is free after a decade-plus in prison--free, and Harry is certain, unreformed...
20) Fantasma
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Series
Harry Hole volume 9
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
Cuando Harry Hole se marchó a vivir a Hong Kong creyó que su vida cambiaría para siempre: dejaba atrás su pasado en Oslo y su carrera como detective. Sin embargo, un acontecimiento del todo insospechado le hace regresar una vez más a su ciudad natal: Oleg, el niño que ayudó a criar y a quien tanto quiso, ha sido arrestado, acusado de asesinato. Harry no cree que Oleg sea un asesino, así que decide volver a Oslo para tratar de encontrar al...