This is How We End Things, like Donna Tartt’s The Secret History, takes place on an American college campus. I was likewise there for the release of Cockroaches, The Snowman, The Leopard, Phantom, Police and The Thirst. But there is more to this case than meets the eye and the clock is ticking to find the missing woman, before the body count rises. Running towards the door, he burst it open with his elbow, was blinded by sunlight and almost stumbled on the two steps down from the porch.

But it wasn’t until 2005 that he was finally published in the UK, when the fifth Hole book, The Devil’s Star, was released, just as the popularity of Nordic Noir soared after the success of Stieg Larsson’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. She wishes Harry were on board but as he’s joined the dark side by working for Røed the police hierarchy are not impressed. 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. On his side of the investigation, Harry assembles a team that includes his old ally, profiler Ståle Aune, who is dying of cancer.He’s an international number one bestseller and his books are published in 50 languages, selling over 45 million copies around the world.

Struck off the force, down and out in Los Angeles, it seems that nothing can entice him back to Oslo. Hole is an alcoholic chain-smoker who routinely insults his peers and alienates his colleagues, framed as the ultimate outsider on the hunt for justice. It’s a temporary fix, but fortunately, a contrivance gives him a chance to help her pay her debts: Hole’s former colleagues are probing the murder of Susanne Anderson, a 26-year-old found dead in an Oslo forest. Born in Oslo, Nesbo grew up in Molde, a small city on the west coast of Norway, where his parents, Per and Kirsten, took him and his two brothers when he was eight years old. Can Harry cobble together a team good enough to help him catch an ingenious psychopath before the body count rises?His Harry Hole novels include The Redeemer, The Snowman, The Leopard and Phantom, and he is also the author of several stand-alone novels and the Doctor Proctor series of children’s books. 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? He’ll need to bring together a misfit team of former operatives to accomplish what he can’t do alone: stop an unstoppable killer. Harry also knew that a physical intervention was unavoidable, and that the first rule in close combat was simple: don’t wait, he who attacks first and with maximum aggression wins. 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.