First Book of the Year 2022

Each year, Sheila over at Book Journey makes a big deal over what the first book she’ll read will be for the new year and once again she’s asked us to join her. I have joined in for the last 7 years and it’s always a lot of fun seeing what book everyone selects. Be sure to stop by Sheila’s post to see the collage she makes of everyone participating!

For my first book of the year, I am once again going with a book from my bookshelf – a trend I’ve been following for the past 7 years straight! This year, I am going with The Redbreast by Jo Nesbo. This is part of Nesbo’s Harry Hole series and it is a fantastic Nordic Noir/Crime fiction series, with this particular book being set in Norway. My ultimate goal is to continue on with this series, reading one book a month until I complete the series as the books have been sitting on my shelves for way too long!

Summary:

Detective Harry Hole embarrassed the force, and for his sins he’s been reassigned to mundane surveillance tasks. But while monitoring neo-Nazi activities in Oslo, Hole is inadvertently drawn into a mystery with deep roots in Norway’s dark past, when members of the government willingly collaborated with Nazi Germany. More than sixty years later, this black mark won’t wash away – and disgraced old soldiers who once survived a brutal Russian winter are being murdered, one by one.

Now, with only a stained and guilty conscience to guide him, an angry, alcoholic, error-prone policeman must make his way safely past the traps and mirrors of a twisted criminal mind. For a conspiracy is taking rapid and hideous shape around Hole… and Norway’s darkest hour may be still to come.