num_pages: 520
description: No disrespect meant to Henning Mankell and Stieg Larsson, but Jo Nesbø, the New York Times bestselling author of The Snowman, is the most exciting Scandinavian thriller writer in the crime fiction business. The Redbreast is a fabulous introduction to Nesbø’s tough-as-nails series protagonist, Oslo police detective Harry Hole. A brilliant and epic novel, breathtaking in its scope and design—winner of The Glass Key for best Nordic crime novel and selected as the best Norwegian crime novel ever written by members of Norway’s book clubs—The Redbreast is a chilling tale of murder and betrayal that ranges from the battlefields of World War Two to the streets of modern-day Oslo. Follow Hole as he races to stop a killer and disarm a ticking time-bomb from his nation’s shadowy past. Vogue magazine says that “nobody can delve into the dark, twisted mind of a murderer better than a Scandinavian thriller writer”…and nobody does it better than Jo Nesbø! James Patterson fans should also take note.
language: English
title: The Redbreast
titlecomplete: The Redbreast
characters: Edvard Mosken, Harry Hole, Ståle Aune, Ellen Gjelten, Daniel Gudeson, Sindre Fauke, Tom Waaler, Rakel Fauke, Gudbrand Johansen, Even Juul
genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Nordic Noir, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Historical Fiction, Crime, Audiobook, Scandinavian Literature
ratings_count: 100494
places: Oslo, Vienna
series: Harry Hole
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: CWA International Dagger, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Bokhandlerprisen
publisher: Harper