Jo Nesbø
1) The Redeemer
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 6
Language
English
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Christmas shoppers stop to hear a Salvation Army concert on a crowded Oslo street. A gunshot cuts through the music and the bitter cold: one of the singers falls dead, shot in the head at point-blank range. Harry Hole--the Oslo Police Department's best investigator and worst civil servant--has little to work with: no suspect, no weapon, and no motive. But Harry's troubles will multiply. As the search closes in, the killer becomes increasingly desperate,...
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 8
Language
English
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Description
Two women have been found dead in Oslo, each with bizarre puncture wounds that were caused from the inside of their mouths. Police are baffled, so they send homicide detective Kaja Solness to Hong Kong to track down the one man who they think can solve the case; former serial killer specialist Harry Hole. But Hole remains haunted from his memories of his last assignment, and has his own problems in Hong Kong that he must sort out before he can help...
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 10
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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The police urgently need Harry Hole . . . A killer is stalking Oslo's streets. Police officers are being slain at the scenes of crimes they once investigated but failed to solve. The murders are brutal, the media reaction hysterical. But this time, Harry can't help. For years, detective Harry Hole has been at the center of every major criminal investigation in Oslo. His dedication to his job and his brilliant insights have saved the lives of countless...
4) Phantom
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 9
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Determined to prove the innocence of a young man he helped raise, disgraced former cop Harry Hole embarks on an increasingly dangerous investigation linked to Oslo's most virulent street drug.
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Oslo is sweltering in the summer heat when a young woman is murdered in her flat. One finger has been cut off and a tiny red diamond in the shape of a pentagram--a five-pointed star--is found under her eyelid. Detective Harry Hole is assigned the case with Tom Waaler, a colleague he neither likes nor trusts. He believes Tom is behind a gang of arms smugglers--and the murder of his partner. But Harry, an off-the-rails alcoholic, is barely holding on...
6) Knife
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 12
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Harry Hole is working cold cases, but he is more worried about the rapist and murderer, Svein Finne, who will soon be out of prison, and when he wakes up from a drunken blackout with blood on his hands, it marks the start of a waking nightmare.
7) The snowman
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 7
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
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Description
Inspector Harry Hole tracks a Norwegian serial killer in this installment of Jo Nesbøs New York Times bestselling series. Now a Major Motion Picture starring Michael Fassbender.One night, after the first snowfall of the year, a boy named Jonas wakes up and discovers that his mother has disappeared. Only one trace of her remains: a pink scarf, his Christmas gift to her, now worn by the snowman that inexplicably appeared in their yard earlier that...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"From the internationally best-selling author, a twisted, multi-layered spin on the classic horror novel In the wake of his parents' tragic deaths in a house fire, fourteen-year-old Richard Elauved has been sent to live with his aunt and uncle in the remote, insular town of Ballantyne. Richard quickly earns a reputation as an outcast, and when a classmate named Tom goes missing, everyone suspects the new, angry boy is responsible for his disappearance....
9) The redeemer
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
As Christmas approaches, Detective Harry Hole investigates the murder of a Salvation Army singer, who turns out to have been shot by mistake.
10) Nemesis
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 4
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Oslo Police Detective Harry Hole is assigned to investigate a series of bank robberies of unparalleled savagery while at the same time absolving himself of the murder of his former girlfriend in a criminal investigation led by his longtime adversary Tom Waaler and Waaler's vigilante police force.
11) The redbreast
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
A tale moving from the final months of World War II to the present, and from the Russian front to contemporary South Africa, follows the dual adventures of a freedom-seeking war martyr and an alcoholic police officer who is drawn into a mystery with past origins.
12) Killing moon
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • This killer will get inside your head. • Brilliant rogue police investigator Harry Hole is back, this time as an outsider assembling his own team to help find a serial killer who is murdering young women in Oslo in the next novel in the internationally best-selling series. "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...
13) Headhunters
Author
Publisher
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Roger Brown is a headhunter and art thief living beyond his means and when he meets Clas Greve, a corporate candidate who reveals that he owns a priceless Rubens painting, Roger breaks into his apartment, initiating a series of events which puts Roger's life in danger.
14) Cockroaches
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 2
Publisher
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Detective Harry Hole arrives in a steaming hot Bangkok. The Norwegian ambassador has been found dead in a seedy motel room, and Harry has been sent to investigate. It's clear that the ambassador's family are hiding some secrets of their own, but few people are willing to talk.
15) The son
Author
Language
English
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Description
The author of the internationally best-selling Harry Hole series now gives us an electrifying stand-alone novel set amid Oslo's hierarchy of corruption, from which one very unusual young man is about to propel himself into a mission of brutal revenge.
16) Blood on snow
Author
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Oslo, 1970s. Olav, an extremely talented "fixer" whose unexpected capacity for love is as far-reaching as his talent for murder, works for Oslo's crime kingpin, "fixing" anyone who causes him trouble. But it's becoming clear to Olav that the more you know about your boss's business, the more your boss might want you fixed yourself, especially if you've fallen in love with his wife.
17) Midnight sun
Author
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The internationally acclaimed author of Blood on Snow and the Harry Hole novels now gives us the tightly wound tale of a man running from retribution, a renegade hitman who goes to ground far above the Arctic circle, where the never-setting sun might slowly drive a man insane. He calls himself Ulf—as good a name as any, he thinks—and the only thing he's looking for is a place where he won't be found by Oslo's most notorious drug lord:...
18) The night house
Author
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"From the internationally best-selling author, a twisted, multi-layered spin on the classic horror novel. In the wake of his parents' tragic deaths in a house fire, fourteen-year-old Richard Elauved has been sent to live with his aunt and uncle in the remote, insular town of Ballantyne. Richard quickly earns a reputation as an outcast, and when a classmate named Tom goes missing, everyone suspects the new, angry boy is responsible for his disappearance....
19) El hombre celoso
Author
Series
Publisher
Reservoir Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
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Description
JO NESBØ SIGUE SIENDO EL REY DE LA NOVELA NEGRA INTERNACIONAL Y CON EL HOMBRE CELOSO VOLVERÁ A SORPRENDERTE UNA DE LOS 15 LIBROS QUE TE VAN A ENGANCHAR ESTE VERANO SEGÚN TELVA Con 50 millones de lectores y traducido a 50 idiomas, vuelve el maestro del thriller que conquistó a crítica y lectores gracias a la serie del detective Harry Hole Jo Nesbø es conocido por sus novelas repletas de emociones fuertes y personajes arrastrados por convicciones...
20) The snowman
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
When an elite crime squad's lead detective investigates the disappearance of a victim on the first snow of winter, he fears an elusive serial killer may be active again. With the help of a brilliant recruit, the cop must connect decades-old cold cases to the brutal new one if he hopes to outwit this unthinkable evil before the next snowfall.