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Nemesis (Paperback)

by Jo Nesbo (Author), Don Bartlett (Translator)

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Paperback: 480 pages
Publisher: Vintage Canada (Jan 20 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0307355756
ISBN-13: 978-0307355751
Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 13.2 x 2.5 cm
Shipping Weight: 345 g

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"While sharing characterisitcs with so many similarly melancholic modern cops (including, of course, Mankell's Kurt Wallander), [he] carves a place of distinction for himself in a crowded field."
—Booklist (starred)

"Perfectly paced and painfully suspenseful."
—Publishers Weekly (starred)

"Jo Nesbo is not just a good Norwegian author; he's very near the top of the Nordic crime writers' league."
—The Times (UK)

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Grainy CCTV footage shows a man walking into a bank and putting a gun to a cashier's head. He tells her to count to twenty-five. When he doesn't get his money in time, she is executed. Detective Harry Hole is assigned to the case.

While Harry's girlfriend is away in Russia, an old flame gets in touch. He goes to dinner at her house and wakes up at home with no memory of the past twelve hours. The same morning the girl is found shot dead in her bed. Harry begins to receive threatening e-mails. Is someone trying to frame him for this unexplained death? Meanwhile the bank robberies continue with unparalleled savagery.

Gripping and surprising, Nemesis is the new thriller by one of the biggest stars of Scandinavian crime fiction.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliantly Intricate Crime Novel, Jan 31 2009

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This book is impossible to summarize. The story is incredibly intricate and several cases intertwine with each other. The back of my paperback copy gives a plot outline which really only deals with the second half of the book. Harry Hole is a Norwegian detective and he is called onto a case involving a bank robbery where a hostage is killed in cold blood. Later on he receives a call for a date from an old flame and wakes up the next morning remembering nothing only to find out she was murdered sometime that evening. These two cases take the forefront and many, many things twist and turn before the final outcome. I love a mystery that I cannot guess whodunit before the reveal. I had my guesses but they were wrong.

While the plot and the story is intense the characterization is wonderful. Harry is a flawed man, a recovering alcoholic with a great relationship in progress. He is not exactly everybody's favourite at the station as he has his own way of doing things and often disregards procedure.

Jo Nesbo has, I think, finally crossed the line between mystery and literature. While a great crime novel it is also a beautifully written and deeply profound story of characters. I really enjoyed this book and will be reading more from Nesbo. I just wish they would publish the series in the order it was written. So far they have published the English translations in this order #5, #3, #4 and #6 will published in English later this year. Recommended!

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