Jo Nesbø
1) Midnight sun
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The internationally acclaimed author of Blood on Snow and the Harry Hole novels now gives us the tightly wound tale of a man running from retribution, a renegade hitman who goes to ground far above the Arctic circle, where the never-setting sun might slowly drive a man insane. He calls himself Ulfas good a name as any, he thinksand the only thing he's looking for is a place where he won't be found by Oslo's most notorious drug lord: the Fisherman....
2) The thirst
Author
Series
Harry Hole volume 11
Language
English
Description
"Harry Hole returns in the eleventh installment of the best-selling, electrifying crime fiction series that includes The Bat, The Snowman, and, most recently, Police. In Police--the last novel featuring Jo Nesbø's hard-bitten, maverick Oslo detective--a killer wreaking revenge on the police had Harry Hole fighting for the safety of the people closest to him. Now, in The Thirst, the story continues as Harry is inextricably drawn back into the Oslo...
3) The snowman
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 7
Language
English
Description
"In Oslo, after the first snow of the season has fallen, a woman disappears, and a sinister snowman is left in her wake. As irascible detective Harry Hole realizes that this is only one of multiple disappearances, he begins to think a serial killer may be at work--and may be drawing in Hole personally and intentionally"--
4) The leopard
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 8
Language
English
Description
In the depths of winter, a killer stalks the city streets. His victims are two young women, both found with inexplicable puncture wounds. The police are running out of options. Deeply traumatised by a previous investigation, Inspector Harry Hole has lost himself in the squalor of Hong Kong's opium dens. But with his father seriously ill, Harry reluctantly agrees to return to Oslo. He has no intention of working on the case, but his instinct takes...
5) Knife
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 12
Language
English
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Description
Brilliant, audaciously rogue police officer, Harry Hole from The Snowman and The Thirst, is back and in the throes of a new, unanticipated rage -- once again hunting the murderer who has haunted his entire career. Harry Hole is not in a good place. Rakel -- the only woman he's ever loved -- has ended it with him, permanently. He's been given a chance for a new start with the Oslo Police but it's in the cold case office, when what he really wants is...
6) Macbeth
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Set in the 1970s in a run-down, rainy industrial town, Jo Nesbo's Macbeth centers around a police force struggling to shed an incessant drug problem. Duncan, chief of police, is idealistic and visionary, a dream to the townspeople but a nightmare for criminals. The drug trade is ruled by two drug lords, one of whom--a master of manipulation named Hecate--has connections with the highest in power, and plans to use them to get his way.
7) The Bat
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Follows Harry Hole's efforts to solve the murder of a television celebrity whose demise is linked to a string of serial killings.
8) Police
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Harry Hole seemingly has his hands tied when the police seek his help in finding a killer who is offing Oslo cops whose cases are unsolved.
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Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"From the internationally acclaimed author of the Harry Hole novels--a new, electrifying stand-alone thriller set in Oslo in the 1970s: the story of an unusually complicated contract killer--the perfectly sympathetic antihero--that is, as well, an edgy, almost lyrical meditation on death and love. This is the story of Olav: an extremely talented "fixer" whose unexpected capacity for love is as far-reaching as his talent for murder. He works for Oslo's...
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 3
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
563 pages : map ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
A tale moving from the final months of World War II to the present, and from the Russian front to contemporary South Africa, follows the dual adventures of a freedom-seeking war martyr and an alcoholic police officer who is drawn into a mystery with past origins.
11) Phantom
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Harry left Oslo again for Hong Kong--fleeing the traumas of life as a cop--he thought he was there for good. But then the unthinkable happened. The son of the woman he loved, lost, and still loves is arrested for murder: Oleg, the boy Harry helped raise but couldn't help deserting when he fled. Harry has come back to prove that Oleg is not a killer. Barred from rejoining the police force, he sets out on a solitary, increasingly dangerous investigation...
12) Cockroaches
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
367 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Detective Harry Hole arrives in a steaming hot Bangkok. The Norwegian ambassador has been found dead in a seedy motel room, and Harry has been sent to investigate. It's clear that the ambassador's family are hiding some secrets of their own, but few people are willing to talk.
13) The Redeemer
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 6
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First United States Edition.
Physical Desc
397 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
As Christmas approaches, Detective Harry Hole investigates the murder of a Salvation Army singer, who turns out to have been shot by mistake.
14) The son: a novel
Author
Language
English
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Description
Sonny Lofthus, in his early thirties, has been in prison for the last dozen years: serving time for crimes he didn't commit. In exchange, he gets an uninterrupted supply of heroin?and the unexpected stream of fellow prisoners seeking out his uncanny abilities to soothe and absolve. His addiction started when his father committed suicide rather than be exposed as a corrupt cop, and now Sonny is the center of a vortex of corruption: prison staff, police,...
15) The devil's star
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 5
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
452 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st Aladdin hardcover ed., 1st US ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
458 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
New adventures await Doctor Proctor, Lisa, and Nilly as they try to protect Oslo, Norway, from invading aliens, enormous snakes in the sewers, seven-legged Peruvian sucking spiders, and sinister waffle irons.
17) The kingdom
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
In the far north of Norway a man lives a peaceful existence. However one day his younger brother, always the more successful and charming of the two, turns up to visit, accompanied by his new wife. It soon turns out that the little brother is not quite as angelic as he seems. Set in a small town filled with secrets, this compellingly dark new thriller from the Sunday Times number-one best seller has a plot as explosive and multi-layered as any of...
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 13
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
496 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Two young women are missing, their only connection a party they both attended, 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. They're facing a killer unlike any other and exposing him calls for a detective like no other. But the legendary Harry Hole is gone—fired from the force, drinking himself to...
19) Petirrojo
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Primera edición
Physical Desc
567 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
Español
Description
"Oslo, año 2000. Aparece en plena calle el cadáver degollado de un viejo militante nazi. Harry Hole -que tras cometer un grave error ha sido reasignado a los servicios secretos- percibe puntos en común entre este crimen y el contenido de uno de los muchos documentos aburridos que pasan por sus manos a diario: alguien compró un rifle Märklin, arma extremadamente cara y precisa usada por grupos neo-nazis. Harry Hole tratará de averiguar cuál...
20) Némesis
Author
Series
Harry Hole volume 4
Publisher
Roja y Negra
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Primera edición, edición en castellano para todo el mundo.
Physical Desc
519 pages : illustration ; 22 cm.
Language
Español