Killing Moon: The NEW Sunday Times bestselling thriller (Harry Hole, 13)

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He has found this bar in Laurel Canyon. He’s drawn to this place because of the music tradition there. He finds a bar close to the home of Frank Zappa and is about to successfully complete his plan when something happens. Nesbo is one of today's most interesting thriller writers, a 100% buy-today-read-tonight delight' LEE CHILD The last work of the acclaimed late Norwegian novelist, Saeterbakken (Siamese), who died earlier this year, is a grotesque and completely engrossing journey into the mind of depressed, cynical, and Continue reading »

He wrote his first Harry Hole novel, The Bat, in Australia while taking a break from work and this was published in Norway in 1997. But it wasn’t until 2005 that he was finally published in the UK, when the fifth Hole book, The Devil’s Star, was released, just as the popularity of Nordic Noir soared after the success of Stieg Larsson’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.Two young women are missing in Oslo. Strangers to each other, but last seen at the same party. When the body of one of them is found with fresh stitches along her hairline, the hunt is on to find a murderer with singular compulsions. Catching this criminal calls for a detective with a singular mind: Harry Hole. Now I am writing more at home, which is kind of sad, actually. I kind of liked the fact I had to go out among people to write.” Jo says: “At the end of the last novel Harry was obviously in bad shape; he had lost the love of his life and he is at the airport rolling a dice, and letting the dice decide where to go next because he has to leave Oslo and escape. In past interviews, Nesbo has said that it’s important that he depicts the murders of women in his fiction because it’s an honest reflection of what happens in the real world. I’d counter with this question: Where is the value in perpetuating the idea of women as victims, in need of a mediocre old man to play hero?

Two young women are missing. Strangers to each other, but last seen at the same party. When the body of one of them is found with fresh stitches along her hairline, the hunt is on to find a murderer with singular methods. Late Norwegian novelist Saeterbakken (Self-Control) explores the aftermath of grief in his haunting last novel, posthumously released in a vibrant translation by Kinsella. Dentist Karl Meyer is Continue reading » This ruminative, gloomy collection draws from five decades of Askildsen’s career, including some translations previously collected in Selected Stories. “A Lovely Spot” and others feature Continue reading »What happened during the pandemic was that I learnt to write at home. Up until then it was the only place I couldn’t write. I don’t know why that is. I guess it’s easier to create a universe inside your head if that universe is more attractive than the universe you are sitting in.”