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In the depths of winter a killer stalks the city streets. Two women are found drowned in their own blood. A third woman is hanged from a diving board. YOU ARE ALLOWING THIS KILLING TO GO ON. The crime scenes offer no clues, the media is reaching fever pitch, and the police are running out of options. IT'S TIME THIS WAS STOPPED ... There is only one man who can help them catch the killer. But Inspector Harry Hole doesn't want to be found ... BECAUSE I HAVE APPOINTED THE NEXT VICTIM.

The night the first snow falls a young boy wakes to find his mother gone. He walks through the silent house, but finds only wet footprints on the stairs. In the garden looms a solitary figure: a snowman bathed in cold moonlight, its black eyes glaring up at the bedroom windows. Round its neck is his mother's pink scarf.

A woman is found murdered after an internet date. The marks left on her body show the police that they are dealing with a particularly vicious killer. Under pressure from the media to find the murderer, the force know there's only one man for the job. But Harry Hole is reluctant to return to the place that almost took everything from him. Until he starts to suspect a connection between this killing and his one failed case. When another victim is found, Harry realises he will need to put everything on the line if he's to finally catch the one who got away.

"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."--Goodreads.com.

For years, detective Harry Hole has been at the centre of every major criminal investigation in Oslo. His dedication to his job and his brilliant insights have saved the lives of countless people. But now, with those he loves most facing terrible danger, Harry can't protect anyone. Least of all himself.

De politie van Oslo komt voor een raadsel te staan als er twee verminkte vrouwenlichamen worden gevonden; ze zijn verdronken in hun eigen bloed. Nog een bizar detail: alle verwondingen lijken van binnenuit te zijn gemaakt. Er is maar één man die bij deze zaak zou kunnen helpen, maar hij is van de aardbodem verdwenen. Kaja Solness van de afdeling Moordzaken wordt op de zaak gezet en belandt bij haar zoektocht naar de verdwenen ex-commissaris in Hongkong. Hij blijkt op de vlucht voor de gevolgen van zijn laatste zaak, voor de vrouw die van hem houdt en voor zijn schuldeisers. Zijn naam is Harry Hole.

Determined to prove the innocence of a young man he helped raise, disgraced former cop Harry Hole embarks on an increasingly dangerous investigation linked to Oslo's most virulent street drug.

Set against the backdrop of a sweltering Oslo summer, the story unfolds with the murder of a young woman, marked by a severed finger and a mysterious red diamond pentagram. Detective Harry Hole, struggling with alcoholism and distrust towards his colleague Tom Waaler, finds himself reluctantly partnered with him. As they investigate the case, Harry grapples with his suspicions about Tom's involvement in arms smuggling and the death of his partner, all while trying to maintain his precarious position in the police force.

Grainy CCTV footage shows a man walking into a bank and putting a gun to a cashier's head. He tells her to count to twenty-five. When he doesn't get his money in time, she is executed. Detective Harry Hole is assigned to the case. While Harry's girlfriend is away in Russia, an old flame gets in touch. He goes to dinner at her house and wakes up at home with no memory of the past twelve hours. The same morning the girl is found shot dead in her bed. Harry begins to receive threatening e-mails. Is someone trying to frame him for this unexplained death? Meanwhile the bank robberies continue with unparalleled savagery. Gripping and surprising, Nemesis is the new thriller by one of the biggest stars of Scandinavian crime fiction.

Een korrelige video-opname laat een man zien die zijn pistool tegen het hoofd van een bankmedewerkster zet. De vrouw wordt gesommeerd de kluis binnen 25 seconden te openen. Wanneer de overvaller zijn geld niet op tijd krijgt, schiet hij de vrouw neer. Harry Hole wordt op de zaak gezet en hij komt flink onder druk te staan als de overvaller nogmaals toeslaat. Wanneer ook een vriendin van Hole dood wordt aangetroffen en hij dreigmails ontvangt, lijkt het erop dat iemand het op hem gemunt heeft.