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I don’t know why that is. I guess it’s easier to create a universe inside your head if that universe is more attractive than the universe you are sitting in.”
The seventh in the Hole series, The Snowman, was adapted into a Hollywood film starring Michael Fassbender as Harry, alongside Silo star Rebecca Ferguson and Top Gun ace Val Kilmer. A promising career as a professional footballer for Norwegian premiership side Molde FK – with a dream of playing for Spurs – was cut short by tearing the ligaments in both knees. Journalist Seierstad (One of Us) tells a harrowing tale that began in October 2013, when two teenage Norwegian-Somali girls, Ayan and Leila, fled their comfortable life in Norway for the Continue reading »What happened during the pandemic was that I learnt to write at home. Up until then it was the only place I couldn’t write. Late Norwegian novelist Saeterbakken (Self-Control) explores the aftermath of grief in his haunting last novel, posthumously released in a vibrant translation by Kinsella. Dentist Karl Meyer is Continue reading » What’s more likely, I think, is that after writing thirteen books with more than 55 million copies sold, Nesbo (a former economist) has identified a formula that sells. So we get the brutal scalping of a young girl, which is going to be solved by an alcoholic mess of a detective who somehow scrapes his ugly face off the bar to magically solve a crime because, despite all evidence to the contrary, he’s still a genius. It’s the formula.
Through palpable tension balanced with glimmers of hope, Hoover beautifully captures the heartbreak and joy of starting over. The sequel to It Ends With Us (2016) shows the aftermath of domestic violence through the eyes of a single mother. When I first invented Harry he was more of a camera lens for the reader, so he was meant to be your stereotype of a hard-boiled detective,” he says.This is one of the darkest entries in the series, with a serial killer whose methods are inventively macabre even by Nesbo's standards. But with Harry in the unfamiliar role of private eye, assembling an eccentric team to help him, and rubbing his old police colleagues up the wrong way, it's also one of the most fun Daily Express Killing Moon is a magnificent concoction. It is beyond fantastic and is one of the greatest crime novels I have ever read. And I have read thousands.” 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 singular methods. Jo Nesbo is an author who strives for originality when it comes to setting up a climax, and in Killing Moon he delivers a belter during a late summer lunar eclipse over Oslo. There are multiple paths of peril for the characters, and just when you think everything has become clear, the ground shifts. I didn’t figure out who the killer was, although you’re likely cleverer than I am and might well do so early on. Finally, there’s a thread in this novel that strongly suggests a 14th book is on the way – here’s hoping it won’t take four years to materialise!
He'll need to bring together a misfit team of former operatives to do what he can't do alone: stop an unstoppable killer. But as the evidence mounts, it becomes clear that there is more to this case than meets the eye... But Harry carried on walking towards him. Became aware he was still holding the credit card in his right hand. Was this how it ended? In a dusty parking lot in a foreign country, bathed in sunlight, broke, and half drunk, while trying to do what he hadn’t been able to do for his mother, hadn’t been able to do for any of those he’d ever cared about?Nesbø is one of today's most interesting thriller writers, a 100% buy-today-read-tonight delight' Lee Child It is sitting there in the middle of the room. What I do is sit on a small table close to the wall, where I look directly into the wall and write there instead. The last work of the acclaimed late Norwegian novelist, Saeterbakken (Siamese), who died earlier this year, is a grotesque and completely engrossing journey into the mind of depressed, cynical, and Continue reading » Killing Moon is not just an unbearably tense thriller but another of Nesbo's studies in love and loneliness. At his best, as he is here, there are few greater crime writers.' The Times A battered hero, a memorably creepy villain, a series of false endings worthy of Jeffery Deaver: What’s not to love?”
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