(2002)Another fine book about a dysfunctional Norwegian police detective. This time he is trying to officially solve one of a series of bank robberies carried out by the same man, only this time a woman teller was shot and killed. Turns out it was planned as revenge of a husband who found out she was unfaithful with his brother a known robber. Unofficially he is trying to find out why his mistress killed herself. It also was done as revenge against him and others in her mixed up life as an elaborate plan to make it look like he had killed her instead. The only thing that is hard to plow thru this book is all of the Norwegian place and street names, very confusing. Some translation quirks as well. Still very good.(Amazon description):Gripping and surprising, Nemesis is a nail-biting thriller from one of the biggest stars in crime fiction.Grainy closed-circuit television footage shows a man walking into an Oslo bank and putting a gun to a cashier's head. He tells the young woman to count to twenty-five. When the robber doesn't get his money in time, the cashier is executed, and two million Norwegian kroner disappear without a trace. Police Detective Harry Hole is assigned to the case.While Hole's girlfriend is away in Russia, an old flame decides to get in touch. Former girlfriend and struggling artist Anna Bethsen invites Hole to dinner, and he can't resist a visit. But the evening ends in an all too familiar way as Hole awakens with a thundering headache, a missing cell phone, and no memory of the past twelve hours. That same morning, Anna is found shot dead in her bed. Hole begins to receive threatening e-mails. Is someone trying to frame him for this unexplained death? Meanwhile, the bank robberies continue with unparalleled savagery.As the death toll continues to mount, Hole becomes a prime suspect in a criminal investigation led by his longtime adversary Tom Waaler and Waaler's vigilante police force. Racing from the cool, autumnal streets of Oslo to the steaming villages of Brazil, Hole is determined to absolve himself of suspicion by uncovering all the information needed to crack both cases. But the ever-threatening Waaler is not finished with his old archenemy quite yet.

I have a new favourite fictional detective: Harry Hole of the Oslo Police. ( )

Pretty good mystery. kind of gritty though. Harry Hole is a good protagonist. ( )

Harry Hole lendir í snúinni flækju í þessari sögu þar sem fyrrum ástkona hans fremur sjálfsmorð að því er að virðist. Harry veit hins vegar einn manna að eitthvað er ekki eins og það á að vera við aðstæðurnar en þorir ekki að greina frá því vegna þess að hann var síðastur manna hjá henni og svo ofurölvi að hann man ekkert hvað gerðist. Auk þess fær hann tölvupósta þar sem leyndur aðili spottar hann og lætur í veðri vaka að það hafi verið framið morð. Harry rannsakar því málið í kyrrþey samhliða flókinni úrlausn á röð bankarána. Til viðbótar þessu öllu er spilltur samstarfsaðili hans reiðubúinn til að gera honum allt til miska vegna ótta við að Harry fletti ofan af honum.
Flækjustig sögunnar var á stundum einum of ólíklegt en spennan og hraðinn oft ágætur. ( )

Not the best work of Nesbo. Though I did find the story better than The Redbreast's. A murder couched as a robbery. Brilliant! ( )