Nesbo is such a terrific action writer Daily Telegraph If you like detective fiction, you'll love this Irish Independent The Leopard once again proves his undoubted talents for crime fiction with a Scandinavian setting Press Association Will keep you guessing until last page Best More layered with more suspicious characters, red-herrings and locations than ever before Eurocrime blog So is The Leopard as good as The Snowman? In my opinion it's better. Original Norwegian noir.absorbing Tom Huddleston, Time Out Scenes switch from the avalanche-threatened ravines and mountain cabins of back-country Norway, close to oil-rich Stavanger and metropolitan Oslo, to an active volcano in Africa Times Literary Supplement

Nesbo's novels keep going when you think there can't be any more twists to follow. Probably the best big crime novel you could lay your hands on this year BBC Radio 4

Sign up to the Jo Nesbo newsletter for all the latest news: /newsletter Read moreĬomparisons with Stieg Larsson have been made, but Nesbo's plots move quickly, carry more punch, and really do keep you guessing to the final page Daily MirrorĪ cracking good thriller.that will keep you gripped to the last page Guardian When commissioned by a publisher to write a memoir about life on the road with his band, he instead came up with the plot for his first Harry Hole crime novel, The Bat. They topped the charts in Norway, but Nesbo continued working as a financial analyst, crunching numbers during the day and gigging at night. After three years military service he attended business school and formed the band Di Derre (‘Them There’). He’s an international number one bestseller and his books are published in 50 languages, selling over 45 million copies around the world.īefore becoming a crime writer, Nesbo played football for Norway’s premier league team Molde, but his dream of playing professionally for Spurs was dashed when he tore ligaments in his knee at the age of eighteen. Jo Nesbo is one of the world’s bestselling crime writers, with The Leopard, Phantom, Police, The Son, The Thirst and Knife all topping the Sunday Times bestseller charts.

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