Nesbo's writing style is fresh, innovative, modern, and historical with great insights into police work and deductive reasoning. Hole has his problems, such as drinking too much and tardiness for work but even his bosses recognize his talents for crime solving, especially murders and tolerate his miscues.
I've read them all starting with "Robin Redbreast," and up through the last two: "The Snowman" The Leopard." All of them are riveting murder mystery stories featuring Norwegian crime investigator Harry Hole. Ruthlessly intelligent and suspenseful, The Leopard is Jo Nesbø’s most electrifying novel yet-absolutely gripping from first to last. And Harry will soon come to understand that he is dealing with a psychopath for whom “insanity is a vital retreat,” someone who will put him to the test-in both his professional and personal lives-as never before. There is little to go on: a piece of rope, a scrap of wool, a bit of gravel, an unexpected connection between the victims. After a female MP is discovered brutally murdered, nothing can keep him from the investigation. Yet when he is compelled, at last, to return to Norway-his father is dying-Harry’s buried instincts begin to take over.
Traumatized by his last case, Inspector Harry Hole has lost himself in the squalor of Hong Kong’s opium dens. The crime scenes offer no coherent clues, the police investigation is stalled, and the one man who might be able to help doesn’t want to be found. Media coverage quickly reaches fever pitch: Could this be the work of a serial killer? Two young women are found murdered in Oslo, both drowned in their own blood.
Jo Nesbø wins.” -Marcel Berlins, The Times (U.K.) “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.
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