Description: The Redbreast" is the winner of the Glass Key prize for the best Nordic crimenovel, and has been voted Norways best work of crime fiction.
Brief description:
A musician, songwriter, and economist, Jo Nesbø is also one of Europe's most acclaimed crime writers, and is the winner of the Glass Key Award, northern Europe's most prestigious crime-fiction prize, for his first novel featuring Police Detective Harry Hole. Nesbø lives in Oslo.
Review Quotes:
"Exciting, witty, melancholy and thought-provoking." - Daily Telegraph (London)
"Paced to grip and twiddle with your insides, this is a fine thriller." - Sunday Sport
"Shifting effortlessly between the last days of WWII on the Eastern front and modern day Oslo, Norwegian Nesbo spins a complex tale of murder, revenge and betrayal.... Perfectly paced and painfully suspenseful, this crime novel illuminates not only Norway's alleged Nazi ties but also its present skinhead subculture. Readers will delight in Hole, a laconic hero as doggedly stubborn as Connelly's Harry Bosch, and yet with a prickly appeal all his own." - Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"An elegant and complex thriller . . . Ingenious design. . . . The engineering of the interlocking plot pieces is intricate because it has to support Nesbo's complicated ideas--and dire thoughts--about Norwegian nationalism, past and present. . . . [An] ambitious book . . . Harrowingly beautiful scenes . . . Pristinely translated by Don Bartlett, Nesbo's book eloquently uses its multiple horrors to advance a disturbing argument: suppressing history is an open invitation for history to repeat itself." - New York Times Book Review
"Reading The RedBreast is like watching a hit movie.... The pacing is swift. The plot is precise and intricate.... The Redbreast is surprisingly witty at times and often grim. But it's always smart." - USA Today
"An elegant and complex thriller . . . Ingenious design. . . . Harrowingly beautiful scenes." - New York Times Book Review
"Reading THE REDBREAST is like watching a hit movie. Author Jo Nesbo's scenes are so vivid that you can imagine them playing across the big screen. The pacing is swift. The plot is precise and intricate. The characters are intriguing." - USA Today
"[A] bold, ambitious thriller." - Kirkus Reviews
"A fine novel.... The Redbreast certainly ranks with the best of current American crime fiction." - Washington Post Book World
"Certainly ranks with the best of current American crime fiction." - Washington Post Book World
"Nesbo has been one of Norway's leading crime-fiction authors for 10 years, and his American debut shows why.... Nesbo has a terrific feel for character, and Hole, while sharing characteristics with so many similarly melancholic modern cops (including, of course, Mankell's Kurt Wallander), carves a place of distinction for himself in a crowded field." - Booklist (starred review)
"Shifting effortlessly between the last days of WWII on the Eastern front and modern day Oslo, Norwegian Nesbø spins a complex tale of murder, revenge and betrayal. . . . Perfectly paced and painfully suspenseful." - Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Original...demands concentration but it's worth the effort." - Literary Review