Phantom by Jo Nesbø

I really shouldn’t read Nesbø.

Too dark. Too much gore.

I should quit as I quit Karen Slaughter. And for the same reasons.

Phantom is the ninth novel featuring crime detective Inspector Harry Hole. …

Inspector Harry Hole is returned from his self-imposed exile in Hong Kong when he is told that Oleg, the son of his on-off girlfriend Rakel Fauke, has been arrested for murder …

Since Hole has become a father figure to Oleg, he comes to Norway to determine the truth …

Hole discovers that the drug scene in Oslo no longer revolves around heroin, but around a highly-addictive morphine-based drug called violin. …

Hole becomes convinced that the police have the wrong suspect and that Oleg has been arrested to take the heat off the real violin dealers. …