A. friends gets herself in a serious financial 'hole', leading to Harry taking on the case to pay off her debts. Struck off the force, down and out in Los Angeles, it seems that nothing can entice him back to Oslo. There were significant chunks when I had no idea what was happening - now that could be because my gears are slipping because I am really, really old, although not quite as old as Terrence (that'll serve to test whether he really reads my reviews).

Overall, this is a very well written and compelling novel that has the reader asking a multitude of questions and there are some little breadcrumbs to follow along this very different and twisty journey. As the story opens, Norwegian former police detective Harry Hole - severely depressed after the death of his wife Rakel - is in a Los Angeles bar, trying to drink himself numb. He’s an international number one bestseller and his books are published in 50 languages, selling over 55 million copies around the world. I would hate to know that I dissuaded a reader from picking up a book just because I didn’t like it.I also hope - for the general safety of the planet - that (rather like Grisham's contempt for actual law) Nesbo's biological data is invented for the sake of a good story rather than real! Whilst most violence is kept off the page, the intent behind what occurs is quite obvious and by the time we are brought right up to speed with what is happening, I was prepared, if still a little green around the gills. It has a YA feel to it, which is not a bad thing at all, but as the book is classified as ‘adult’, be aware that it feels more on the YA side. With the same great characters and setting, together with a complete psychopath as the perpetrator (who we hear from regularly through the book, justifying his actions), this is yet another great Scandi-crime novel. So he ends up, we learn at the beginning of Killing Moon, in Los Angeles and his plan is simply to drink himself to death.

Luckily, Truls Berntsen can still access police files, so Harry's team can collect forensic data, DNA, fingerprints, phone records, etc. Yes, he is, at least in this book, lost in a world of regret and melancholy, his past very much haunting him, but I still liked hims as a character. Harry has never faced an adversary like this before, and he’ll need to bring together a misfit team of former operatives to do what he can’t do alone: stop an unstoppable killer.libro está muy bien, el tío es muy bueno, sus personajes son muy buenos, el caso también etc; pero no sé si es el efecto nórdico que me falta la fluidez en la historia y la estructura, cierta holgura en el desarrollo que te permita volar un poco. The camaraderie of this team is one of the most pleasing aspects of the book – a counter to Harry’s angst, grief and battle with alcoholism. In this 13th instalment in the Harry Hole series, Harry is no longer in the police force - instead, he is in Los Angeles and slowly drinking himself to death due to personal tragedy and his general melancholia. 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.

Everything that occurs is so insane that I felt I was reading a novelization of a piece of schlock horror. When someone he cares for finds themself in danger, Harry shockingly discovers that he wants to live. He’ll need to bring together a misfit team of former operatives to do what he can’t do alone: stop an unstoppable killer. 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. 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.

The details surrounding the killer and the murders is also quite telling in shaping what happens throughout the book, leaving readers squeamish at times. A deeply troubled, damaged, narcissistic and thoroughly irredeemable individual, even though we get to understand Prim, there’s no way you’ll feel sympathy for this one.

This amount includes seller specified domestic postage charges as well as applicable international postage, dispatch, and other fees.As fabulously imagined as the case itself is, the most pleasure I derive is from simply being in Harry’s company. Still, the novel is entertaining as we watch Harry and a rogue team he has assembled — a former colleague dying of cancer, a cab driver, and a disgraced police detective among them — try to outwit and outsmart the person who has taken unusual trophies from his victims: their eyes and their brains. 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.