JO NESBØ is a musician, songwriter, economist, and author. His first crime novel featuring Harry Hole was published in Norway in 1997 and was an instant hit, winning the Glass Key Award for best Nordic crime novel (an accolade shared with Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell). He is the author of ten Harry Hole novels; Headhunters; The Son; and several children's books. His books have been translated into forty-seven languages. In 2008, he established the Harry Hole Foundation, a charity to reduce illiteracy among children in the developing world. He lives in Oslo.
“Jo Nesbø is my new favorite thriller writer and Harry Hole my new
hero.” —Michael Connelly
“With Henning Mankell having written his last Wallander novel and
Stieg Larsson no longer with us, I have had to make the decision on
whom to confer the title of best current Nordic writer of crime
fiction. After finishing Jo Nesbø’s The Snowman, I hesitate no
longer . . . This is crime writing of the highest order, in which
the characters are as strong as the story, where an atmosphere of
evil permeates, and the tension begins in the first chapter and
never lets up.” —Times (UK)
“The Snowman is a superb thriller—smart, stylish, beautifully paced
and meticulously plotted . . . Nesbø is such an insightful
portraitist that Hole and all the secondary characters are
convincing at just about every bloody turn . . . The psychological
aspects of the novel are on a par with Ruth Rendell’s inspector
Wexford mysteries. Ultimately, though, what sets Nesbø apart is his
ability to keep the pages turning with such intellectual
dexterity.” —Newsday
“Every now and then, a truly exceptional crime novel comes along,
something so gripping that it recalls classics such as The Silence
of the Lambs. Jo Nesbø has pulled it off with The Snowman . . .
[which] establishes him as a writer of rare ingenuity and total
confidence.” —Sunday Times (UK)
“Irresistibly addictive . . . This is reading as you experienced it
in childhood, without any gap between eye and mind, but with the
added pleasures that adult plots and adult characters can bring . .
. It is Nesbø’s plots—brilliantly conceived, carefully worked out,
and complicatedly satisfying—that finally make [his books]
unputdownable.” —Slate
“Nesbø is being hailed as the next Stieg Larsson or Henning Mankell
. . . Apt comparisons, but they don’t go far enough. This is simply
the best detective novel this reviewer has read in years . . .
Nesbø’s latest thriller reads like a symphony, from the thundering
first chords that pull the reader into a magical world through the
delicately enticing development in which motifs and story strands
are woven together leading to a pounding, furious conclusion.”
—Library Journal (starred)
“Erica Jong meets Stephen King meets, yes, Stieg Larsson in this
superb thriller.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred)
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