But the fact that the boxing troupe followed the circus, and that Tawoomba and Otto were lovers just wasn't reader solvable, and I like to solve puzzles. I don’t know how long this project will take me given that I get free books all the time from publishers and then also review books for a trade publication on top of having a day job (and I’m trying to now have something of a social life). To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. There must have been a civil service discount and it was probably the hotel’s smallest room, Harry reflected.

The light switch was off when they entered, which means either Andrew overdosed and hung himself in the dark, or he was killed.Had the weather been a little worse the waves would definitely have carried her out, but instead she lay among the rocks until she was found. January’s the tourist season in Australia,” Andrew explained as they lurched forward in the traffic around Circular Quay. Hole has an awkward encounter with Kensington’s surrogate son, Toowoomba, where he asks what tribe Toowoomba is from. Not really wanted by the local police force in Sydney but one detective befriends him and sees him as the key to snapping open the case.

Through Birgitta we get more of Harry's back story, which, having been following Harry, we learn he was an alcoholic. Everyone comes to see the Sydney Opera House and go on boat trips round the harbor and admire the women on Bondi Beach. Norwegian police officer Harry Hole is sent to Sydney, Australia to serve as an attaché for the Australian police's investigation into the murder of a young female Norwegian girl residing in Australia, Inger Holter. The finale to this one seemed a bit rushed and weak, certainly not overwhelmingly satisfying or exciting as some crime thrillers are. For the first third of the book or so, I liked Harry, I felt the story was building andI was enjoying a bit of Australian lore and culture.The second book, Cockroaches, set in Thailand, has been translated to English, fifteen years after being originally published in Norwegian, and was published in the UK in November 2013. Birgitta goes to surprise Harry at his hotel, but finds him a drunken mess with a hooker, things don't go well and there is a large argument.

As the story becomes more complex, Hole struggles to find the killer and falls deeper into alcoholism.Working with Kensington, welcome or not, Hole wades right into the investigation, making both friends and enemies in the Bohemian quarter of Sydney where Inger worked. I was wondering whether sir was the right mode of address to a superior officer in this country, or whether it was a little too'. Andy Hoban of Sunday Express gave a rating [a] of 5/5 and noted "Nesbo’s principal characters are both credible and well-drawn and it is fantastic to see a younger Harry, a more loquacious Harry. The beginning of the series starts with a simmer, and by the time of the 13th book, the serial killings had become quite outlandish as the author seemingly felt he had to one-up himself.