The Devil's Star - Harry Hole 5

"It''s fascinating to watch this Norwegian author adapt our homegrown monster [the serial killer] to a foreign culture.... When things go wrong, Harry goes on a bender, but when he''s on his game, no one is better than this obsessive detective. He systematically works his way through the intricacies of a plot that speeds along like a bullet train."-- New York Times Book Review Detective Harry Hole is on the trail of a diabolical serial killer terrorizing Oslo in another electrifying thriller in the Harry Hole series from the author of The Snowman . In the heat of a sweltering Oslo summer, a young woman is found murdered in her flat--with one of her fingers cut off and a tiny red star-shaped diamond placed under her eyelid. An off-the-rails alcoholic barely holding on to his job, Detective Harry Hole is assigned to the case with Tom Waaler, a hated colleague whom Harry believes is responsible for the murder of his partner. When another woman is reported missing five days later, and her severed finger turns up adorned with a red star-shaped diamond ring, Harry fears a serial killer is at work. But Hole''s determination to capture a fiend and to expose Waaler''s crimes is leading him into shadowy places where both investigations merge in unexpected ways, forcing him to make difficult decisions about a future he may not live to see.

Product details

• Authors: Jo Nesb, Jo Nesbo
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.02.2011
• EAN: 9780061133985
• ISBN: 978-0-06-113398-5
• No. of pages: 464
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 205 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Harry Hole Series; Harry Hole Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Norwegische SchriftstellerInnen; Werke (div.), Fiction: general and literary, Espionage and spy thriller, Crime and mystery: police procedural, Classic crime and mystery fiction, Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives, FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Thrillers / Historical, FICTION: Thrillers / Suspense, FICTION: Thrillers / Crime, FICTION: Thrillers / Espionage, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Historical, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / International Crime & Mystery, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Traditional, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Private Investigators