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- HarperAudio
- Released:
- May 4, 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780062014979
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Description
"Nesbø's storytelling abilities are incomparable. Nemesis is crime novel as art form and great entertainment."
-USA Today
The #1 international bestseller from one of the most celebrated crime writers in Europe--the New York Times bestselling author of The Snowman--Jo Nesbø's extraordinary thriller Nemesis features Norwegian homicide detective Harry Hole, "the next in the long line of great noir crime detectives," (San Diego Union-Tribune) in a case as dark and chilling as an Oslo winter's night. The second Harry Hole novel to be released in America-following the critically acclaimed publication of The Redbird-Nemesis is a superb and surprising nail-biter that places Jo Nesbø in the company of Lawrence Block, Ian Rankin, Michael Connelly, and other top masters of crime fiction. Nesbø has already received the Glass Key Award and the Booksellers' Prize, Norway's most prestigious literary awards. Nemesis is proof that there are certainly more honors in this extraordinary writer's future.
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Nemesis
Editor's Note
Description
"Nesbø's storytelling abilities are incomparable. Nemesis is crime novel as art form and great entertainment."
-USA Today
The #1 international bestseller from one of the most celebrated crime writers in Europe--the New York Times bestselling author of The Snowman--Jo Nesbø's extraordinary thriller Nemesis features Norwegian homicide detective Harry Hole, "the next in the long line of great noir crime detectives," (San Diego Union-Tribune) in a case as dark and chilling as an Oslo winter's night. The second Harry Hole novel to be released in America-following the critically acclaimed publication of The Redbird-Nemesis is a superb and surprising nail-biter that places Jo Nesbø in the company of Lawrence Block, Ian Rankin, Michael Connelly, and other top masters of crime fiction. Nesbø has already received the Glass Key Award and the Booksellers' Prize, Norway's most prestigious literary awards. Nemesis is proof that there are certainly more honors in this extraordinary writer's future.
- Publisher:
- HarperAudio
- Released:
- May 4, 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780062014979
- Format:
- Audiobook
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Die Geschichte ist wie gewohnt ;-) überaus spannend und nicht auf den ersten oder auch zweiten Blick zu durchschauen. Man ertappt sich dabei, den gleichen Fehler wie Harry zu machen: '...man irgendwie für eine Sache blind wird, wenn man sie so oft gesehen hat.' Die Personen, selbst die kleineren Rollen, sind überzeugend portraitiert, so dass die handelnden Figuren vor dem inneren Auge bald zum Leben erwachen.
Sehr interessant fand ich zudem die immer wiederkehrenden Exkurse zur Existenz der Zigeuner, die offenbar auch in Norwegen nur ein geduldetes Volk sind.
Und das letzte kurze Kapitel macht klar, dass man auch den fünften Band mit Harry Hole lesen muss. Denn der Mord an seiner früheren Kollegin Ellen harrt noch immer der Aufklärung.
He starts off racehorse-style, running three plots side by side: dead banklady Stine, dead lover Anna, and dead policewoman Laura. Two of the plots gallop along; the third is a dark horse poking up her long-deceased head every fifty pages or so.
Then Nesbø’s gets tricky. The Inspector solves the murders, neat and tidy, but neatness is illusion. Norwegian crime has layers of evil and the Inspector keeps falling through holes, like a hard-boiled, hard-drinking Alice chasing after a gun-toting rabbit.
The twists get tiresome after a while. Nesbø’s pulls the rug out from under you one too many times. But you go on. You must see how it turned out even if it is 2AM.
I am definitely glad I read the book and look forward to the others in the series.
Well...isn't she?