Harry Hole Series: The Bat : The First Inspector Harry Hole Novel (CD-Audio)

from melydia

I've signed up to take a Harry Hole walking tour of Oslo, so I figured I should read some of the books first. Of course, this one takes place entirely in Australia. Harry Hole is in the country to follow up on the murder of a Norwegian woman. What follows is a lengthy journey through Australian a...

from pennsylady

Book group chose this 1920 work. It was a good little mystery with the feeling of masterpiece theater throughout. No need for multiple settings. I marveled at some of the word choices....such as sepulchrally and terrorization and sauvitity... The butler (Japanese) was addressed frequently in a ma...

from Andrew-theQM

This had all the key ingredients I usually enjoy, but for some reason I stuggled to get into this book and it didn't maintain my interest. The plot was okay but nothing more than that. I don't know if it lost something in translation but did just not hook me. There seemed a lot of descriptive pas...

from sigje

I read the English version but on a phone hard to find. Great read, no superhero detective. Stumbles through as we all do and so human. Thoroughly enjoyed!

from drewsof

I wish I could give this 5 stars. But some things were out of Mr. Nesbø's (or my) control here (looking at you, publishers...) and so what might've struck me as a blow-me-down-brilliant debut is instead a refreshingly brisk prequel of sorts - a case dug up from the archives to tide us over until ...