The 3 best books by the disturbing Jo Nesbo

Jo nesbo He is a fascinating creator, a guy gifted with versatility in its widest definition. Musician, writer of children's and young adult novels and prominent author of Novelty. Combining all these capabilities in a single little head can only be understood as an attack on probability. That or maybe Jo Nesbo went through the line where they handed out brains twice.

It's not just a matter of doing it, it's a matter of doing it right. Because wherever this Norwegian wears, he ends up standing out from the average in most cases. (Luckily, at least he's not handsome.) And without prejudice to the manifest creative capacity of Jo Nesbo (reminds me of an old school friend who played all sports well and also linked to all), here we go with the unofficial ranking of all the novelistic work Jo Nesbo, where he curator Harry Hole becomes his alter ego

Top 3 recommended novels by Jo Nesbo

Eclipse

The rapport between author and character reaches another level in authors dedicated to the cause of endless sagas. This is the case of a Jo Nesbo who already cohabits with Harry Hole, of whom he knows all his needs, his likes and dislikes. On this occasion, he embarks on a new journey. And at times it seems to be heard whispering to both the importance of the next case.

This is the only way to understand the rabid humanity emanating from the character made flesh completely down to his last pores. With the burden of the years, the duels and with despair already winning the balance, only Jo Nesbo could revitalize Harry to make him feel alive again, on the edge of the abyss but alive after all.

Harry Hole has moved to Los Angeles, nothing is holding him back in Norway after losing everything that gave meaning to his life. There he rescues him from his alcoholic drift by Lucille, a veteran film actress who, in exchange for her protection, offers him a roof, a custom-made suit and luxury shoes.

Meanwhile, in Oslo, a girl they had been looking for for days has turned up dead, after attending a party organized by Markus Røed, a real estate magnate who was her sugar daddy. Another young woman related to him remains unaccounted for, so the police close in on the millionaire. They are also disturbed by an unusual detail on the first victim's head: it looks like the signature of someone he wants to kill again.

Determined to clear his name, Røed sends an emissary to hire Hole as a private investigator. The reward is so succulent that with it Harry will be able to help Lucille get rid of a dangerous Mexican gang. However, he will only have ten days to return to his country and solve the case. The clock is ticking and something ominous, infectious like a parasite, floats in the air: a lunar eclipse is approaching that will soon bathe the city of Oslo in red.

Eclipse by Jo Nesbo

Knife

With that feeling of dangerous tightrope walking on the rope of his own life, Harry Hole will wake up one morning after his last visit to the old and already mapped hells of alcohol. Rakel's abandonment once again invited him to perdition. But this time the awakening is more bitter than ever. Memory makes water and the blood on his hands does not predict anything good.

Hole's instinct always served him to discover the bad guy. This time she will have to turn to him simply to escape. She no longer has as many resources as before. He now returns to being an ordinary policeman, without his band of great investigator who raised him to the top before he insisted on rushing back to the bottom. An old name then resonates among the confusion: Svein Finne. The ruthless rapist and murderer is back on the streets, goodness of the judicial system. And soon Hole will be able to intuit that Finne is looking for his particular revenge.

The problem is that he catches him at the worst moment for a reunion of such caliber. At his worst moment, when it costs him a world to even get up every morning, Harry Hole must find the strength to sustain him again to face a fight without quarter, trying to equip himself with his enemy, before it can seem that he is now just an easy prey. Like any badly wounded beast, Harry Hole may wait for a final approach to deal the last blow before finally perish before his executioner.

Knife, Jo Nesbo

Thirst

When the body of a woman is found, murdered after a date arranged on the internet, the finest membranes of the city of Oslo begin to vibrate. On her body they find marks that betray a particularly thirsty predator. Or so the researchers believe. The media press, a quick clarification and arrest of the guilty is needed. The police know there's only one man who can do it, but Harry Hole doesn't want to go back to a job that nearly took everything from him. Until he begins to suspect that the murderer may have something to do with a case that he did not manage to close completely.

When a second victim falls, Harry will no longer hesitate. You have to put all the meat on the grill if you want, once and for all, to catch the criminal who escaped you.
Thirst, Jo Nesbo

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Devil's star

A heat wave hits Oslo. The blood that escapes from the corpse of a woman who has been murdered in her apartment draws the attention of the authorities.

When examining the body, which has an amputated finger, a small red diamond in the shape of a five-pointed star is found. Five days later, a famous musical director denounces the disappearance of his wife, one of whose fingers - surrounded by a ring with a star set - will arrive by mail to the authorities.

Five more days and a woman turns up dead in similar circumstances. Perhaps the signature of a demented killer whose steps must be stopped is coming to light. Harry Hole has to investigate the case in the company of the shady agent Tom Waaler, his declared intimate enemy, so that in the first instance he does everything possible to avoid fulfilling his duty. Once again drunk, and pointed out behind closed doors as a scourge for the police force, Hole's days in the department are numbered. Unless he makes a pact with the devil himself.
The Devil Star Jo Nesbo

the jealous man

Without being mentioned in the hit of the deadly sins, jealousy can drag us to the worst of ourselves. The self-destructive side is the lesser evil when that feeling of usurpation of another soul awakens that we could come to consider, sickly, that it was ours. An "exquisite" selection, a disturbing sampler of the drift of jealousy turned into anger, animosity and channel towards the most premeditated and treacherous murder of the scorned man...

A detective expert in jealousy who must hunt down a man suspected of having murdered his brother. A grieving father who wonders what is the place of revenge in a society that has succumbed to the lowest instincts. Two friends who, on their way to the Sanfermines in Pamplona, ​​fall in love with the same girl. A garbage man who, while recovering from a deep hangover, has to find out what exactly happened the night before. The story of two passengers on a plane between whom the spark of love arises... or perhaps a more sinister feeling. These are just some of the pieces of clockwork that, like little crime novels, confirm that Jo Nesbø is one of the most surprising and daring storytellers of our time.

The Jealous Man, Jo Nesbo

Nemesis

The security cameras of a bank capture how a robber shoots the cashier at point-blank range after a strange exchange of words.

Detective Harry Hole will take over the investigation, with the help of Beate Lonn, one of the police force's most baffling investigators, capable of identifying facial features much faster than any computer program, but unable to move in society.

All inquiries point to Raskol Baxhet, a legendary bank robber. However, it is impossible for him to be the culprit because he is serving time in prison. And as the heists continue to escalate, Harry finds himself in trouble. One morning she wakes up on his floor with a horrible hangover that makes her relive old fears. The night before he had stayed with an old girlfriend who turns up dead. He is the main suspect, unless he manages to clarify what he has done during those last hours of which he does not remember anything. Is there someone willing to set him up and blame him for Anna's death?
Nemesis, Jo Nesbo

The house of the night

The omniscient narrator always has the deck in his hand. Only we never know if he has any tricks up his sleeve. Even more so when that narrator inhabits the protagonist of the story in the first person. Anything can happen there. If we add to all this some unfortunate events where our confessor finds himself in the middle of the hurricane...

Following the tragic death of his parents in a house fire, fourteen-year-old Richard Elauved has been sent to live with his aunt and uncle in the remote, insular town of Ballantyne. Richard quickly gains a reputation as an outcast, and when a classmate named Tom disappears, everyone suspects the angry new kid is responsible for his disappearance.

No one believes him when he says that the phone booth at the edge of the woods sucked Tom into the receiver like something out of a horror movie. No one, except Karen, a seductive foreigner who encourages Richard to look for clues that the police refuse to investigate. She traces the number Tom prank-called from the phone booth to an abandoned house in Mirror Forest. There she glimpses a terrifying face in the window. And then the voices begin to whisper in his ear...

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7 comments on “The 3 best books by the disturbing Jo Nesbo”

  1. It is fascinating that home, totally, absolutely the one that wrote is masterful. Per tant, not one of them wasted tea. Jo Nesbo fins to the bone.

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  2. I read one or at most two noir novel books per author, then the tedious repetition of almost everything begins. I have given Nesbo not one yet, I wonder which one to start with? Does Macbeth attract me because of his relationship with Shakespeare or is it a marketing gimmick from his publishers?
    daniel

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    • Well, if that's why you only read one or two books so as not to saturate yourself ..., start with "The Devil's Star" which is prior to "Thirst" and then finish with this second. Macbeth is undoubtedly a claim, although those of us who do get hooked comment that it is a rarity, a curiosity that is worth it, without being the great novel of his life.
      La Sed is a novel already more successful for an author whose publications in Spain have not respected the chronology of the saga (and it better be that way, because the first novel "The bat" was weaker by trade.
      Greetings.

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    • Thank you very much for the recommendation because it happened to me the same as Daniel, I did not know where to start, and he is right in saying that many authors of crime fiction, who amaze you with a title, then it is more of the same.
      Ahh Juan, I leave this page and I go running to see the face of the writer, because it is true, that if he is already handsome he gives a bit of a «tantrum»

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  3. Like any classification, it is highly questionable. If you like Nesbo and you like Harry Hole, it is best to take the 11 books and read them in chronological order. What a mania for ranking!

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