Two young women are missing. Strangers to each other, but last seen at the same party. When the body of one of them is found with fresh stitches along her hairline, the hunt is on to find a murderer with singular methods. He wrote his first Harry Hole novel, The Bat, in Australia while taking a break from work and this was published in Norway in 1997. But it wasn’t until 2005 that he was finally published in the UK, when the fifth Hole book, The Devil’s Star, was released, just as the popularity of Nordic Noir soared after the success of Stieg Larsson’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Jo Nesbø is one of today’s most interesting thriller writers, and Harry Hole is an all-time great character.” Journalist Seierstad (One of Us) tells a harrowing tale that began in October 2013, when two teenage Norwegian-Somali girls, Ayan and Leila, fled their comfortable life in Norway for the Continue reading »

He'll need to bring together a misfit team of former operatives to do what he can't do alone: stop an unstoppable killer. But as the evidence mounts, it becomes clear that there is more to this case than meets the eye... I think this is what happens when we get older, we are not interested in getting new friends, we are interested in gettingHere’s a taste of that, and if this isn’t the author projecting his women-hating fantasies upon his characters, then what is it? In a Los Angeles bar, Harry meets Lucille, who gives us a takedown of Uma Thurman that has little relevance to the storyline:

He almost closed his eyes and squeezed his fingers around the credit card, so his hand formed a chisel. Killing Moon is not just an unbearably tense thriller but another of Nesbo's studies in love and loneliness. At his best, as he is here, there are few greater crime writers.' The Times Now I am writing more at home, which is kind of sad, actually. I kind of liked the fact I had to go out among people to write.” It is sitting there in the middle of the room. What I do is sit on a small table close to the wall, where I look directly into the wall and write there instead.

I have seen where Stephen King sits when he is writing and it is exactly the same. He has this big house and he goes into this small room that looks like a closet and he can write there.