

Loading... The Redbreast (2000)by Jo Nesbø
![]() Scandicrime (1) Best Noir Fiction (65) » 19 more Books Read in 2015 (1,704) To Read (44) Books Read in 2019 (2,544) Books Read in 2017 (3,061) Urban Fiction (48) Books about World War II (199) Scandinavian Crime (29) Best Crime Fiction (22) Reading Globally (50) Books read in 2015 (54) Books Read in 2012 (209) Allie's Wishlist (8) Detective Stories (200) No current Talk conversations about this book. 7/16/22 to 7/22/22 interruption in reading due to lost book. Rauðbrystingur er þriðja sagan um Harry Hole, norska heltekna morðlöggu og vel virkan alkóhólista. Einhverra hluta vegna er þessi saga önnur sagan sem þýdd er yfir á íslensku og ég veit ei hvers vegna bók númer tvö var ekki þýdd en kannski vita aðrir mér fróðari ástæðuna. Í þessari sögu klúðrar Hole feitt þegar Bandaríkjaforseti mætir í Noregsheimsókn og er fluttur til í starfi og settur á bak við skrifborð. Þar rekst hann hins vegar á vísbendingar um að í undirbúningi séu eitt eða fleiri morð og allt bendir til verðandi morðingi sé hermaður frá síðari heimsstyrjöldinni. Ágætis spenna og plott. I'd waited to read this one with bated breath. There was so much riding on this book. It had been praised to the skies, and it was the one that would make me decide whether or not to complete the series. I have a fetish: I complete the series I start. So, I started this book with with great anticipation. I have completed the series now. It was a good book. Compelling, too. However, I liked The Snowman and Phantom much better later. More than the mystery itself, I found myself drawn into the subplots of Waaler and Ellen, Harry and Rakel. Once again, someone's death drives Harry to drinking. At the time, I thought that Nesbo is overdoing the whole death and drinking thing. Later, I realized it's just a recurrent theme. Harry's an alcoholic. The reader will just have to get used to that. As far as The Redbreast is concerned, it's a good story. It follows two timelines: WW II and the current time. Both the stories are linked beautifully by the end. There are enough twists to give any mystery lover her money's worth. Unexpected twists and turns. I would have liked Rakel to be a bit more clever, to avoid the situation she finds herself in. A few loose ends were left, that I expect to be built upon in the next novel. Harry Hole is a great character. I don't read a lot of thrillers, but I enjoy Nesbo's work. I'm of Norwegian ancestry, and the cultural, historical, and setting tidbits are much appreciated. If this had been my first Jo Nesbo novel, it would have been my last. Still not sure, out of the three or four names of the "bad guy" which was his real one. Fine book for a Norwegian who's quite familiar with the WWiI fighting in Norway and likes to take notes.
An elegant and complex thriller by the Norwegian musician, economist and crime writer Jo Nesbo...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. While giving his ambitious book the form of a police procedural, featuring Harry Hole, an attractive if familiarly flawed loose cannon of a cop, the author expands his street-level subplots into a narrative that reaches all the way back to World War II, when Norway was under German occupation. Belongs to SeriesHarry Hole (3) Belongs to Publisher SeriesIs contained inContains
A tale moving from the final months of World War II to the present, and from the Russian front to contemporary South Africa, follows the dual adventures of a freedom-seeking war martyr and an alcoholic police officer who is drawn into a mystery with past origins. No library descriptions found.
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![]() GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)839.823 — Literature German and Germanic Literature in other Germanic languages Danish and Norwegian literature Norwegian Bokmål, Riksmål Norwegian Bokmål fictionLC ClassificationRatingAverage:![]()
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