Knife
Jo Nesbo
400 pages
Published on July 9th, 2019
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Knife is the twelfth book in the outstanding Harry Hole series set in Norway’s capital, Oslo. If you’re new to this author, don’t start with this one – Harry is in a particularly dark place, and then things get worse, so it would be better to get to know him and his various friends, enemies and associates through the series before diving in here. As usual, this is a meticulously plotted and shockingly twisty thriller featuring a heinous villain, but this time the main crime affects our hero personally.
Harry has been wallowing in booze since his wife Rakel threw him out, and his friends and colleagues are at their wits’ end trying to help him. After a particularly bad bender, he wakes up with no memory of the night before, covered in blood after assaulting someone, but then gets the worst news of all.
Every time I read one of these, I ask myself why I waited so long – I’ve had this since not long after it came out, but I had to catch up with the previous one, The Thirst, which I finished six months ago. I could just about remember the complex events that left Harry a broken mess and who the scary villain known as The Fiancé was. Without wanting to spoil anything, this wraps up one story arc very satisfactorily but leaves Harry in a very different place – so I am not waiting another six months to read Killing Moon!
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