The Jealousy Man: From the Sunday Times No.1 bestselling author of the Harry Hole series

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As soon as we answer a call in the Homicide Department and hear the word ‘murder’ at the other end of the line, we know there’s a fifty one per cent chance that the motive is jealousy.” Nikos Balli is “the man they call in when there’s a suggestion that jealousy is the motive behind a murder.” Jealousy is “a boa constrictor...Jealousy has no distinct smell, colour or sound. But it has a story. And it’s listening to this story, what is told as well as what is left out, that enables me to know whether I am sitting in the presence of a desperate, wounded animal...because I am myself a wounded animal...Jealousy evens out the difference between you and me, beyond the barriers of class, sex, religion, education, IQ, culture, upbringning, our behaviour begins to resemble each other’s.” The officer looks as though he might be preparing a response, a long and complex response that’s going to require a lot of thought. I continue.

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Don’t apologise, it’s nice when someone cares. Far too few do. We’re so terrified of anything upsetting and sad.’ Simone loved chocolates. Especially Twist. Every Saturday when I did the shopping at Kiwi I used to buy a big bag of them. It was one of our few routines. It was a sort of anchor in a life based on opportunism, whims, the occasional evening meal together and, as a rule, waking up in the same bed. We blamed our jobs, and I believed that everything would be different once we had a child. That would bring us together. A child. I remember how shaken she was the first time I brought it up. The officer sits with head bowed. As though he’s the one confessing to murder by poison rather than me. Nesbo also takes us to the near future, to a dystopian America, where the upper-class elite is waiting atop a skyscraper to be evacuated while the masses fight for survival in the streets below. We are introduced to two best friends on their way to the running of the bulls in Pamplona when they fall in love with the same girl and, in the epic and vicious finale, we meet a psychologist who also happens to be an assassin. Until she met me Simone’s life was meaningless and directionless, she was on the skids. On the surface everything seemed fine – the looks, the money, the so-called friends – but there was no substance, no direction, you understand? I call it the terror of things. Because things can be lost, and the more things you have the more afraid you are of losing them. She was drowning in her own affluence, she couldn’t breathe. I came along and gave her space. Gave her air.’The investigating officer sits in an armchair facing me, and the notebook lies untouched on the table in front of him.

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You’re thinking she wasn’t the type to take her own life. And you’re absolutely right. Don’t ask me how, officer, but I know she was murdered.’ And I also know that murder is bound to look bad for me as the scorned husband. It gives me a motive. I could have come to see her, I knew where she kept the poison, I could have slipped it into her coffee and then left. I imagine that’s why you’ve been to my place, to see if there’s a match between any of my clothes and the fibres you found here in Simone’s house.’

soprattutto per quanto riguarda la storia cardine “Gelosia”, ambientata in Grecia fra scalatori e due gemelli, sarebbe stato bello poter leggere di più, lasciando spazio al suo protagonista. E senza dubbio il creatore di Hole avrebbe potuto farci un romanzo one shot. Jo Nesbo is not a new-to-me author as I am slowly making my way through his Harry Hole series. I have also read a few of his stand-alones and really liked them, so when I heard he had a collection of short stories coming out, I knew I had to read them. I’ve really come to enjoy reading short stories recently and had to see what spin Nesbo would put on them. I say this as though I’ve just made up my mind here and now, but of course that’s not the case. For several minutes now I’ve just been waiting for the right moment. And the right moment is now. My brain at once conjured up a picture of a married couple in their thirties. He earned the money, a lot of money, and you got to choose the bedlinen. Our brains are expert at formulating stereotypes. Now and then they’re wrong. Now and then they’re right.

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I should have taken the coffee table. Because I like this coffee table. I like the small dents on its surface, souvenirs of our wild parties, the paint splashes from the time I decided to paint everything in the living room green, and the one leg that was ever so slightly crooked from the first and only time we ever made love on it. Nesbø’s 13th Harry Hole novel (after 2019’s Knife) covers familiar terrain in a too familiar way. Norwegian sleuth Hole has left the Oslo police after a tragedy and relocated, broke and Continue reading » In the long run the company’ll get its just deserts. We don’t like paying for something we don’t get.’ Jo Nesbø već nam je pokazao i dokazao kako se izvrsno snalazi i u kriminalističkim serijalima i u samostalnim trilerima, i u re-tellingu Shakespearea, pa čak i u romanima za djecu. A kakav je u formatu kratke priče? Pogađate: jednako dobar! A tasty, if not always tasteful, tale of supernatural mayhem that fans of King and Crichton alike will enjoy.

This architect, Henrik Bakke, I don’t know how she met him. She always said she met him after I moved out, and at first I believed her. But friends have told me how naive I was, pointing out that the guy moved in almost immediately. Before my side of the bed was even cold, as one of my friends put it. And yet, officer – and I know this may sound strange – it’s actually a sort of comfort to know that it was her feelings for someone else that ruined everything for us. That what Simone and I had wasn’t the kind of thing that just burns itself out of its own accord. That it took love to conquer love.’ But of course, statistics don’t mean much when you’re afraid,’ I added. ‘I say this because I know exactly how you feel.’ I waited until the plane took off and levelled out before leaning to one side and in a low and hopefully reassuring voice passed this statistic on to the sobbing, shaking woman in the window seat. In his first ever collection of short stories, this master of crime delivers a gripping, edge-of-your seat read that you won't be able to put down.