Blood on Snow

Zusatztext Praise for Jo Nesbø and Blood on Snow “[A] tangled tale with a fateful twist.” — The Boston Globe “Nesbø’s much-heralded gifts are on display—using his talent for conjuring the chilly Munch-like atmospherics of Oslo in the winter and his eye for grisly! alarming details that slam home the horror of the evil that men do.” — The New York Times Book Review   “[An] incendiary cocktail of murder! revenge and a hitman with . . . problems.” — The Independent (London)   “Dark! intense! and bone chilling.” — Pittsburgh Post-Gazette   “Quick! entertaining. . . . [An] excursion to a slightly different corner of the criminal underworld! where death and love become tangled together in the cold! dark streets.” — Paste Magazine “In the crowded field of Scandinavian crime fiction! Nesbø’s books stand out. . . . [He] likes to rip plots up . . . to play with the conventions of his genre.” — The New Yorker “Noiry and pulpy: Nesbø’s gorgeously rendered images of snow! and of the titular blood on snow . . . are crying out to be filmed.” — The Guardian (London) “[ Blood on Snow ] moves along swiftly in the carefully controlled voice of the killer. And before you know it! you’re in the middle of one of the wildest scenes in recent crime fiction . . . where there’s hardly any place to duck! just as in this entertaining novel! when the bullets fly.” — All Things Considered /NPR “Nesbø is a master storyteller! gripping the reader from the first page.” — Daily Express (London) “I am the world’s greatest living crime writer. [Jo Nesbø] is a man who is snapping at my heels like a rabid pit bull poised to take over my mantle when I dramatically pre-decease him.” —James Ellroy “Nesbø explores the darkest criminal minds with grim delight and puts his killers where you least expect to find them. . . . His novels are maddeningly addictive.” — Vanity Fair Informationen zum Autor JO NESBO is a musician! songwriter! and economist! as well as a writer. His Harry Hole novels include The Snowman! The Leopard! and Phantom  and he is the author of several stand-alone novels! including The Son! as well as the Doctor Proctor series of children’s books. He is the recipient of numerous awards! including the Glass Key for best Nordic crime novel.   www.jonesbo.com Chapter 1 The snow was dancing like cotton wool in the light of the street lamps. Aimlessly, unable to decide whether it wanted to fall up or down, just letting itself be driven by the hellish, ice-cold wind that was sweeping in from the great darkness covering the Oslo fjord. Together they swirled, wind and snow, round and round in the darkness between the warehouses on the quayside that were all shut for the night. Until the wind got fed up and dumped its dance partner beside the wall. And there the dry, windswept snow was settling around the shoes of the man I had just shot in the chest and neck.   Blood was dripping down onto the snow from the bottom of his shirt. I don’t actually know a lot about snow—or much else, for that matter—but I’ve read that snow crystals formed when it’s really cold are completely different from wet snow, heavy flakes, or the crunchy stuff. That it’s the shape of the crystals and the dryness of the snow that make the haemoglobin in the blood retain that deep red colour. Either way, the snow under him made me think of a king’s robe, all purple and lined with ermine, like the drawings in the book of Norwegian folk tales my mother used to read to me. She liked fairy tales and kings. That’s probably why she named me after a king.   The Evening Post had said that if the cold carried on like this until New Year, 1977 would be the coldest year since the war, and that we’d remember it as the start of the new ice age sci...

Product details

• Authors: Jo Nesb, Jo Nesbo, Neil Smith
• Assisted by: Neil Smith (Translation)
• Publisher: Random House USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 07.04.2015, delayed
• EAN: 9780385354196
• ISBN: 978-0-385-35419-6
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense