Showing posts with label Norwegian rewiews. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Norwegian rewiews. Show all posts

Sunday, January 9, 2022

Jo Nesbo / The Snowman / Review


Jo Nesbo

The Snowman

Matthew Haynes
JUNE 16,2015

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‘Do you want to build a snowman?’

After reading Jo Nesbo’s The Snowman I’d rather not if it’s all the same. Snowmen are now up there with clowns and those giants in Attack on Titan in terms of things that freak me out.

Harry Hole our plucky Norwegian police inspector is still flirting dangerously with alcohol and his on-and-off-and-on-again lady friend Rakel while still managing to solve Norway’s first serial killer case. He’s working out a lot more, has lost a lot of weight, feeling a bit older, but manages to keep his dark dog demons at bay and as a result makes a lot less mistakes than he has done in previous books.

Thursday, January 6, 2022

Book review of "The Devil's Star," by Jo Nesbo

 



Book review of "The Devil's Star," by Jo Nesbo

By Patrick Anderson
Monday, March 15, 2010

THE DEVIL'S STAR
By Jo Nesbo
Translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett
Harper. 452 pp. $25.99

"The Devil's Star" is the third of Norwegian writer Jo Nesbo's novels about the alcoholic Oslo detective Harry Hole to be published in this country. Reviewing "The Redbreast" a few years ago, I said that it ranked with today's best American crime writing.