Killing Moon: The NEW Sunday Times bestselling thriller (Harry Hole, 13)
FREE Shipping
Killing Moon: The NEW Sunday Times bestselling thriller (Harry Hole, 13)
- Brand: Unbranded
Description
We at Penguin Random House Australia acknowledge that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are the Traditional Custodians and the first storytellers of the lands on which we live and work. He’s awkward, he’s a bit of an ass and he has self-destructive tendencies that threaten to ruin his personal and professional lives. It’s a temporary fix, but fortunately, a contrivance gives him a chance to help her pay her debts: Hole’s former colleagues are probing the murder of Susanne Anderson, a 26-year-old found dead in an Oslo forest.
When Lily runs into Atlas Corrigan, a childhood friend who also came from an abusive family, she hopes their friendship can blossom into love. Nearly ten pages into Killing Moon, I wondered whether Nesbo had always depicted women in such a cruel, hateful way.Almost a decade ago, Jo revealed sitting at his imported desk made writing feel like work and he preferred to pen his stories in hotel lobbies or airport lounges. Can Harry cobble together a team good enough to help him catch an ingenious psychopath before the body count rises? It takes all of Hole’s ingenuity to uncover what must be the most unusual method of murder in contemporary crime fiction. Translated by Séan Kinsella — The 13th novel in Jo Nesbo’s Harry Hole series should have some sort of warning on the cover. Bestseller Nesbø’s exceptional 11th Harry Hole novel (after 2013’s Police) finds the alcoholic, demon-ridden, occasionally suicidal Oslo police detective in better shape than usual.
She wishes Harry were on board but as he’s joined the dark side by working for Røed the police hierarchy are not impressed. Jo, who is midway through a book tour of the UK, Canada and the US for the release of Killing Moon, is also an executive producer for The Jealousy Man, based on one of his short stories.It has a ticking-clock urgency to it, and the author swings to and fro between key and secondary characters – and key bits of action – which makes for a lively and stimulating read. Brilliant rogue police investigator Harry Hole is back, this time as an outsider assembling his own team to help find a serial killer who is murdering young women in Oslo in the next novel in the internationallybest-selling series.
I’d counter with this question: Where is the value in perpetuating the idea of women as victims, in need of a mediocre old man to play hero? Harry also knew that a physical intervention was unavoidable, and that the first rule in close combat was simple: don’t wait, he who attacks first and with maximum aggression wins. There are parasite infestations (think The Last of Us), decapitations and, at one point, the anonymous perp eats a human brain. A battered hero, a memorably creepy villain, a series of false endings worthy of Jeffery Deaver: What’s not to love? Jo says: “At the end of the last novel Harry was obviously in bad shape; he had lost the love of his life and he is at the airport rolling a dice, and letting the dice decide where to go next because he has to leave Oslo and escape.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.
In the 13th novel in this internationally bestselling series, brilliant rogue police investigator Harry Hole is back, this time as an outsider assembling his own team to help find a serial killer. This twisty standalone from bestseller Nesbø (the Harry Hole series) centers on the complex relationship between brothers Roy and Carl Opgard, who grew up in a remote Norwegian village.We honour Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' continuous connection to Country, waters, skies and communities. Grizzled, hard-living, socially awkward detectives were once a staple of my media diet, and so I didn’t pick up the latest in Jo Nesbo’s Harry Hole series as a novice. 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. A book begging to be read on the beach, with the sun warming the sand and salt in the air: pure escapism.
- Fruugo ID: 258392218-563234582
- EAN: 764486781913
-
Sold by: Fruugo