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Latest The Stand-alone crimes are Novel: horrific, MOON but MUSIC they are (1998) juxtaposed
Latest against Stand-alone the happy Novel: marriage THE DISTANT of Stubo ECHO and Vik,
who (2003) have their share of life’s problems, but face them
with great kindness to one another. The somewhat
normal Inspector Stubo Denise stands Mina in stark contrast to the
lonely, Series: disfunctional Maureen O’Donnell Swedish (the detectives Garnethill Beck Trilogy) and
Wallander
Latest Stand-alone
and the Icelandic
Novel: FIELD
Elendur
OF
–
BLOOD
so not all
(2005)
police
detectives in Scandinavia are portrayed in the same
way, even though some are similarly depicted.
The detection is excellent and Anne Holt’s
prose, even in translation,
Marcia
is
Muller
clear and right up there
with the Series: best San who Francisco write in their P.I. native Sharon English McCone tongue.
Don’t Latest be Stand-alone fooled by Novel: Anne CYANIDE Holt’s seemingly WELLS common (2003)
name. I predict great things for her and this series.
Margaret Murphy
Series: British Barrister Clara Pascal
Jo Nesbo
Series Character: Oslo, Norway Detective Harry
Latest Stand-alone Novel: THE DISPOSSED (July,
Hole
2004 in U.K.)
� THE REDBREAST (Harper, $24.95, November,
2007; Harvill
Carol
Secker,
O’Connell
£11.99, 2008). Rating:
B- [Reviewed by Larry Gandle] In 1999, there is
Series: NYC Police Sergeant Kathleen Mallory
a report of a rare and expensive sniper rifle being sold
Stand-alone Novel: JUDAS CHILD (1998)
to an old man in Norway. The fear of an assassination
plot is, of course, heightened. Harry Hole, a detective
who is involved in
Sara
monitoring
Paretsky
neo-Nazi activity must
investigate Series: the situation. Chicago P.I. Harry V.I. must Warshawski not only discover
if there Stand-alone is a definite Novel: GHOST threat but COUNTRY also who (1998) is being
threatened. In alternate narrative form, there is a
subplot that takes T. place Jefferson during Parker WWII in which Norwegians
are Series: fighting Police at the detective Eastern front. Merci It Rayborn is a bit of a love
story Stand-alone and the result Novel: of a union COLD will PURSUIT have something (2003) to do
with the story taking place in 1999.
Harry Hole is Iain a strong, Pears sympathetic and realistic
character. Series: British He is the art major dealer strength Jonathan of this Argyll overlong
and Latest overwrought Stand-alone novel Novel: which DREAM aimlessly OF and SCIPIO endlessly
examines the influence (2002) of WWII on the modern
Norwegean society and the presence of modern day
neo-Nazis. The book is well written but the length just
Ridley Pearson
completely wore me down. 3rd in the series.
Series: Seattle Police Detective Lou Boldt
�Latest Stand-alone
NEMESIS
Novel:
(Harvill
PARALLEL
Secker, £12.99,
LIES (2001)
March,
2008). Grainy CCTV footage shows a man walking into
Deadly Pleasures
Jo Nesbo's Harry Hole
A ccording to his superiors, Harry is both
the most competent detective of the Oslo Police
and the worst civil servant. A periodic binge drinker
seriously opposed to any type of authority, Hole roams
the streets of Oslo like a lone ranger, doling out justice
his way. At times suspended and generally considered
a nuisance by his employers, Harry is nevertheless in
some sense revered by his colleagues, for he is a good
cop whose high moral standards and pronounced sense
of justice often lead him in the right direction.
In his personal life, however, his famous ‘inner
compass’ seems to have broken down completely.
Harry is tormented by the complicated relationship
with Rakel, the single mother whom he fell in love with
in The Redbreast and who has since walked into and
out of his life at regular intervals, due to Harry’s
workaholic and alcoholic tendencies. He cannot let go
of the woman who has proved to be the love of his life.
And the feelings are mutual.
a bank and putting a gun to a cashier’s head. He tells her to
count to twenty-five. When
Thomas
he doesn’t
Perry
get his money in time,
she Series: is executed. NY State Detective Native Harry American Hole Guide is assigned Jane Whitefield to the case.
While Harry’s Latest Stand-alone girlfriend is away Novel: in Russia, DEAD AIM an old (2002) flame gets in
touch. He goes to dinner Bill at her Pronzini house and wakes up at home
with no Series: memory The of Nameless the past Detective twelve hours. in San The Francisco same morning
the Latest girl Stand-alone is found shot Novel: dead in THE her ALIAS bed. 4th MAN in the (June, series. 2004)
� DEVIL’S STAR (Harvill Secker, £6.99, October,
2005). It’s a sweltering summer Ruth Rendell in Oslo when a young woman
is found Series: murdered British in Chief her flat. Inspector One finger Reginald has been Wesford cut off, and
beneath Latest her Stand-alone eyelid is a Novel: tiny red THE diamond ROTTWEILER in the shape (2003 of a infive
pointed star. Detective Harry U.K.) Hole is assigned to the case with
Tom Waaler, a colleague Harry suspects of running an arms
smuggling gang and of Rick having Riordan murdered his partner, and
initially he refuses Series: to become Texas P.I. involved. Tres Navarre But he is already on
notice to Stand-alone quit the force Novel: and COLD is left with SPRINGS no choice (2003) but to drag
himself out of his alcoholic stupor and get to work. 5th in the
series.
S.J. Rozan
This
Series:
series
NYC
is a
P.I.’s
prime
Lydia
example
Chin &
of
Bill
how
Smith
some Scandinavian
works are being published out of order. The first two
Stand-alone Novel: ABSENT FRIENDS (September, 2004)
in the series have not been translated into English. The third
book in the series, THE REDBREAST, was published first
in the U.S. and is the only book published here so far. The
order of publication in the
Greg
U.K.:
Rucka
the 5th book in the series was
published first, Series: the 3 Bodyguard Atticus Kodiak
Stand-alone Novel: A FISTFUL OF RAIN (2003)
rd book in the series second, and the 4th book third. I sure hope there isn’t a continuing story line that
we’re supposed to make sense out of from book to book.
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