Killing Moon: The NEW Sunday Times bestselling thriller (Harry Hole, 13)

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He'll need to bring together a misfit team of former operatives to do what he can't do alone: stop an unstoppable killer. But as the evidence mounts, it becomes clear that there is more to this case than meets the eye... A promising career as a professional footballer for Norwegian premiership side Molde FK – with a dream of playing for Spurs – was cut short by tearing the ligaments in both knees.

Asked if that means he now uses the desk in his home office, he says: “That is the only place I can’t write. I have this beautiful desk that I imported, that I bought for a ridiculous amount of money. Nesbo is one of today's most interesting thriller writers, a 100% buy-today-read-tonight delight' LEE CHILDKilling Moon is not just an unbearably tense thriller but another of Nesbø’s studies in love and loneliness. At his best, as he is here, there are few greater crime writers.” Here’s a taste of that, and if this isn’t the author projecting his women-hating fantasies upon his characters, then what is it? In a Los Angeles bar, Harry meets Lucille, who gives us a takedown of Uma Thurman that has little relevance to the storyline: We know who the killer is; he calls himself, “Prim”; he has his own point of view in the novel. Eventually both of the girls’ bodies are found and Markus Roed’s wife is also murdered. This guy really hates Roed and wants to frame him. Later we find out why. He has found this bar in Laurel Canyon. He’s drawn to this place because of the music tradition there. He finds a bar close to the home of Frank Zappa and is about to successfully complete his plan when something happens.

He wrote his first Harry Hole novel, The Bat, in Australia while taking a break from work and this was published in Norway in 1997. 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. He almost closed his eyes and squeezed his fingers around the credit card, so his hand formed a chisel. It starts with Harry Hole drinking himself to death in Los Angles, only to have a good reason to return home, and to sober up enough (to solve the case) after a couple of chapters.

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Killing Moon is not just an unbearably tense thriller but another of Nesbo's studies in love and loneliness. At his best, as he is here, there are few greater crime writers.' The Times

But Harry has ulterior motives for wanting to solve this case and, if he fails, there could be more than one life at risk. Anyway, later on Nesbo sets up a sequence where three women are being entertained by their boyfriend: Katrine, Alexandra, and another girl who works at a convenience store or something. Prim is about to pop the question. He’s not the type to take it well if he’s turned down. I don’t know why that is. I guess it’s easier to create a universe inside your head if that universe is more attractive than the universe you are sitting in.” Nesbø is one of today's most interesting thriller writers, a 100% buy-today-read-tonight delight' Lee ChildNot just an unbearably tense thriller but another of Nesbo's studies in love and loneliness... there are few greater crime writers The Times, Crime Book of the Month Through palpable tension balanced with glimmers of hope, Hoover beautifully captures the heartbreak and joy of starting over. Before becoming a crime writer, Nesbo played football for Norway’s premier league team Molde, but his dream of playing professionally for Spurs was dashed when he tore ligaments in his knee at the age of eighteen. After three years military service he attended business school and formed the band Di Derre (‘Them There’). They topped the charts in Norway, but Nesbo continued working as a financial analyst, crunching numbers during the day and gigging at night. When commissioned by a publisher to write a memoir about life on the road with his band, he instead came up with the plot for his first Harry Hole crime novel, The Bat. But Harry carried on walking towards him. Became aware he was still holding the credit card in his right hand. Was this how it ended? 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?

Now I am writing more at home, which is kind of sad, actually. I kind of liked the fact I had to go out among people to write.” What’s more likely, I think, is that after writing thirteen books with more than 55 million copies sold, Nesbo (a former economist) has identified a formula that sells. So we get the brutal scalping of a young girl, which is going to be solved by an alcoholic mess of a detective who somehow scrapes his ugly face off the bar to magically solve a crime because, despite all evidence to the contrary, he’s still a genius. It’s the formula. Readers are privy to the doings of a man calling himself Prim, who emerges as the creepiest villain this side of a Thomas Harris novel . . . Nesbø excels at manipulating this sort of ghoulish material. He can heighten suspense with a single word and wrong-foot the most attentive customer.” KILLING MOON is the 13th novel in the Harry Hole series, although each title reads as a standalone. Two women are missing, their only connection being they attended the same party, hosted by a notorious real-estate magnate. When one of the women is found murdered, the police discover an unusual signature left by the killer, giving them reason to suspect he will strike again.I have seen where Stephen King sits when he is writing and it is exactly the same. He has this big house and he goes into this small room that looks like a closet and he can write there. Two young women are missing. Strangers to each other, but last seen at the same party. 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.