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It is sitting there in the middle of the room. What I do is sit on a small table close to the wall, where I look directly into the wall and write there instead. Three woman who join together to rent a large space along the beach in Los Angeles for their stores—a gift shop, a bakery, and a bookstore—become fast friends as they each experience the highs, and lows, of love. Not 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 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.”
Actor Lee delivers an excellent, nuanced performance in this audio edition of the latest installment of Nesbø’s Harry Hole series. As the book opens, former detective Hole is an instructor at a Continue reading »
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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.” One of my two grumbles are that the ending stretches credibility so much that I defy you to not think "Oh for God's sake." It's possible to enjoy the denouement, because at least one newspaper review I read loved it, but to me it was... just silly. A book begging to be read on the beach, with the sun warming the sand and salt in the air: pure escapism. A battered hero, a memorably creepy villain, a series of false endings worthy of Jeffery Deaver: What’s not to love?”
Journalist Seierstad (One of Us) tells a harrowing tale that began in October 2013, when two teenage Norwegian-Somali girls, Ayan and Leila, fled their comfortable life in Norway for the Continue reading » Two young women are missing in Oslo. 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 compulsions. Catching this criminal calls for a detective with a singular mind: Harry Hole. Plot twists and inter-twining of character narratives really did keep me hooked (and clueless as to who the real culprit was) until the very end.
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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 Find this title with Libby, the award-winning and much-loved app for local libraries, by OverDrive. Late Norwegian novelist Saeterbakken (Self-Control) explores the aftermath of grief in his haunting last novel, posthumously released in a vibrant translation by Kinsella. Dentist Karl Meyer is Continue reading »
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. From the latest Scandinavian serial killer to Golden Age detective stories, we love our crime novels! With Harry in the unfamiliar role of private eye, assembling an eccentric team to help him, and rubbing his old police colleagues up the wrong way, it's one of the most fun [books in the Harry Hole series]' Daily Express 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.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:
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