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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 Jo Nesbø is one of today's most interesting thriller writers, and Harry Hole is an all-time great character - for me, a 100% buy-today-read-tonight delight. Lee Child 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. 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.” Jo Nesbo is an author who strives for originality when it comes to setting up a climax, and in Killing Moon he delivers a belter during a late summer lunar eclipse over Oslo. There are multiple paths of peril for the characters, and just when you think everything has become clear, the ground shifts. I didn’t figure out who the killer was, although you’re likely cleverer than I am and might well do so early on. Finally, there’s a thread in this novel that strongly suggests a 14th book is on the way – here’s hoping it won’t take four years to materialise!
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 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. In past interviews, Nesbo has said that it’s important that he depicts the murders of women in his fiction because it’s an honest reflection of what happens in the real world. 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? A battered hero, a memorably creepy villain, a series of false endings worthy of Jeffery Deaver: What’s not to love?” He expected to observe a conversation between the two. But instead the man took a step forward and grabbed hold of Lucille’s arm. Began pulling her towards the Camaro. Harry saw the heels of her shoes dig into the gravel. And now he also saw that the Camaro didn’t have American number plates. In that instant he was off the bar stool. Running towards the door, he burst it open with his elbow, was blinded by sunlight and almost stumbled on the two steps down from the porch. Realised he was far from sober. Then zeroed in on the two cars. His eyes gradually adjusting to the light. Beyond the parking lot, on the other side of the road winding its way up the green hillside, lay a sleepy general store, but he couldn’t see any other people apart from the man and Lucille, who was being dragged towards the Camaro.
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 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. A battered hero, a memorably creepy villain, a series of false endings worthy of Jeffery Deaver: What’s not to love? The case is a baffling one with all sorts of strange dimensions to it. The body of one of the young women is found and the mutilation suggests she was the victim of a serial killer. She’s half naked, her brain has been removed, there are no forensic traces to go on… Katrine Bratt and her team begin working with Sung-min Larsen of the national crime agency, Kripos. She wishes Harry were on board but as he’s joined the dark side by working for Røed the police hierarchy are not impressed. However, Harry is certain that Røed has a great deal to hide. Born in Oslo, Nesbo grew up in Molde, a small city on the west coast of Norway, where his parents, Per and Kirsten, took him and his two brothers when he was eight years old.
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 very particular tastes. Through palpable tension balanced with glimmers of hope, Hoover beautifully captures the heartbreak and joy of starting over. Killing Moon is a magnificent concoction. It is beyond fantastic and is one of the greatest crime novels I have ever read. And I have read thousands.” 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.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.”
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.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. 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. 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. Nesbo is one of today's most interesting thriller writers, a 100% buy-today-read-tonight delight' LEE CHILD
On his side of the investigation, Harry assembles a team that includes his old ally, profiler Ståle Aune, who is dying of cancer. Aune’s hospital room becomes Harry’s base of operations. In the unlikeliest team-up ever, corrupt cop Truls Berntsen, a favourite in Police, becomes Harry’s ally. Plus, there’s Harry’s old schoolmate Øystein, a taxi driver and reformed drug dealer. The camaraderie of this team is one of the most pleasing aspects of the book – a counter to Harry’s angst, grief and battle with alcoholism.KILLING MOON is the 13th novel in the Harry Hole series, although each title reads as a standalone. 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. 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. He almost closed his eyes and squeezed his fingers around the credit card, so his hand formed a chisel. 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.”
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