Some feel the 2019 instalment of the Harry Hole series — Knife — is Jo Nesbø’s best.

I can’t disagree.

The worst of the worst happens.

And Svein Finne is back, perhaps Harry’s biggest nemesis.

Harry Hole started drinking again and was kicked out of his home by his wife Rakel.

… Everything changes when one morning he wakes up covered in blood without remembering what happened the previous evening and, a short time later, he discovers that a murder had taken place that night. …

This book is long and complex.

Important to the plot are favorite characters including Kaja Solness, Katrine Bratt, and Bjørn Holm.

And new likeable characters including Sung-Min Larsen, an ambitious one-time student of Harry’s who works for rival law enforcement agency Kripos, and who looks as if he has his eye on Harry’s job.

… Roar Bohr (great name), sharp-shooting ex-special forces in Afghanistan, with a rifle, post-traumatic stress disorder and a score to settle with the man who raped his little sister. …

Crime Review

Publishers Weekly criticized the novel for having an “enormous number of characters, backstories, subplots, and themes” but nonetheless praised its “well-orchestrated” ending.

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