..but maybe when you mess with the bull you get the horns, or some dumb stuff like that. I have a hard time being on the side of someone who does something that’s not even all that honorable or whatever making choices that piss off of the big bad boss and now they’re on the run. This novel is more or less just a novella, especially given that most of Jo Nesbo’s novels are 500 pages. It feels thin, and almost, and this wouldn’t surprise, […]
Circles within Circles
It’s weird to read this book. It’s the third book in the series, but I have already read in this order, books six, seven, eight, and then five, and then nine, and then one and two. It’s a combination of when they came out in the US (I think they were not translated in order) and when my local libraries happened to have them. But it’s also weird because in the US we’re seeing the antics of the Far Right (not entirely in the form […]
Payback is a bitch
When Sonny isn’t on the nod, alone in his prison cell at Staten, he is The Confessor. Inmates of all persuasions come to him for absolution, for healing. Others, like a fallen minister and a crooked lawyer, get him to do the confessing for others. It’s been like this for 10 years, until lifer Johannes Halden comes to unburden himself to The Son. Then the story really takes off. From the writer who created detective Harry Hole (10 books so far), comes a stand alone […]
Heading down the Norwegian crime story Hole
Everyone says that if you like crime fiction, murder mysteries, and the like, then definitely check out Norwegian crime fiction. And Jo Nesbo is one of the best in the business (or so I’m told). His main character is Oslo detective Harry Hole. Apparently American and English publishers decided to start translating the books that came later in the series first (set in Oslo), for whatever reason. However, this was the first book – and Harry has travelled from Oslo to Sydney to investigate the […]