JO NESBØ is a musician, songwriter, economist, and #1 New York Times best-selling author. He has won the Raymond Chandler Award for Lifetime Achievement as well as many other awards. His books have sold 55 million copies worldwide and have been translated into 50 languages. His Harry Hole novels include The Redeemer, The Snowman, The Leopard, Phantom, The Thirst, and most recently Knife, and he is also the author of The Son, Headhunters, Macbeth, The Kingdom and several children's books. He lives in Oslo.
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“Jo Nesbø is my new favorite thriller writer and Harry Hole my new
hero.” —Michael Connelly
“Fiendishly complex and terrifically entertaining.” —The New York
Times Book Review
“If you don’t know Nesbø, it’s time to get with it.” —USA Today
“Nesbø explores the darkest criminal minds with grim delight and
puts his killers where you least expect to find them.... His novels
are maddeningly addictive.” —Vanity Fair
“A superb thriller—smart, stylish, beautifully paced and
meticulously plotted.” —Newsday
“The Snowman is strung together with great care, playful in certain
stretches, grisly in others, all of it highly readable.”
—Newsweek
“The writer most likely to take the ice-cold crown in the
critically acclaimed—and now bestselling—category of Nordic noir.”
—Los Angeles Times
“Nesbø's books have a serious, socially significant heft, as well
as a confident (even cocky) narrative stride that is unmatched.
These aren’t mere investigatory trifles to be enjoyed and
forgotten; their unnerving horrors linger.” —Richmond
Times-Dispatch
“Nesbø’s pace is unerring, and the way he builds up suspense will
incite Pavlovian page-turning.” —Time Out New York
“This is reading as you experienced it in childhood, without any
gap between eye and mind, but with the added pleasures that adult
plots and adult characters can bring.... Unputdownable. The Snowman
is probably the most terrifying and certainly the most addictive
book in the whole series.” —Slate
“This is crime writing of the highest order, in which the
characters are as strong as the story, where an atmosphere of evil
permeates, and the tension begins in the first chapter and never
lets up.” —The Times (London)
“Spine-chilling.... This most ambitious of Nesbø’s crime novels
banishes any fears that the omniscient serial killer scenario has
been exhausted.” —The Independent (London)
“Macabre and disturbing.... Deft plotting, strong characterization,
adrenaline-fuelled action sequences and a whole raft of social
issues raised along the way make this book a spectacularly good
example of how a tried and tested (and often tired) formula can be
made exhilarating and fresh.” —The Guardian (London)
“Hole is all a fictional detective should be.” —Times Literary
Supplement
“If you’re still grieving the loss of Stieg Larsson, it’s time to
move on. Nesbø’s waiting for you.” —Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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