I purchased this book for my own personal collection.
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Published: June 2, 2020 (first published 2019)
Summary:
Brilliant, audaciously rogue police officer Harry Hole from The Snowman and The Thirst is back and in the throes of a new, unanticipated rage–once again hunting the murderer who has haunted his entire career.
Harry Hole is not in a good place. Rakel–the only woman he’s ever loved–has ended it with him, permanently. He’s been given a chance for a new start with the Oslo Police, but it’s in the cold case office, when what he really wants is to be investigating cases he suspects have ties to Svein Finne, the serial rapist and murderer who Harry helped put behind bars. And now, Finne is free after a decade-plus in prison–free and, Harry is certain, unreformed and ready to take up where he left off. But things will get worse. When Harry wakes up the morning after a drunken night with blood that’s clearly not his own on his hands, it’s only the very beginning of what will be a waking nightmare the likes of which even he could never have imagined.
My thoughts:
I did it…I set a goal this year to read one Harry Hole book a month until I got caught up and this is the final book. And I loved doing this. Spreading the books out, one a month, kept me from burning out on the series, and excited to get to the next one each month. And now I’ll be ready for when the new book comes out next year!
This latest installment is both heartbreaking and intense. It’s also one of the most personal cases Harry has had to date. This book was emotionally draining and despite that, I loved every second of it. Jo Nesbo has proven he is a master at his craft. There were so many intricate layers to this story and the twists and turns this one takes kept me guessing all the way through.
The character development in this series has been top notch and I strongly urge you to read this series from start to finish…though each book does work as a stand-alone as there are self-contained cases in each. I have loved seeing how not only Harry but all the characters have grown over the course of the series.
I will now be eagerly awaiting the release of the next book in this series, Killing Moon, which is due out in the Spring of 2023.
Books in this series:
- The Bat
- Cockroaches
- The Redbreast
- Nemesis
- The Devil’s Star
- The Redeemer
- The Snowman
- The Leopard
- Phantom
- Police
- The Thirst
- Knife
- Killing Moon – due out May 2023
