Nemesis

WINNER OF THE WILLIAM NYGAARD BURSARY FINALIST FOR THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL FINALIST FOR THE MACAVITY AWARD FOR BEST MYSTERY NOVEL The fourth installment of the Harry Hole series returns with another pulse-racing thriller. 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.