Blood on Snow, Jo Nesbo
Blood on Snow, Jo Nesbo
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Blood on Snow
A novel

Author: Jo Nesbo, Neil Smith

Narrator: Patti Smith

Unabridged: 3 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/07/2015

Synopsis

From the internationally acclaimed author of the Harry Hole novels—a fast, tight, darkly lyrical stand-alone novel that has at its center the perfectly sympathetic antihero: an Oslo contract killer who draws us into an unexpected meditation on death and love.

This is the story of Olav: an extremely talented “fixer” for one of Oslo’s most powerful crime bosses. But Olav is also an unusually complicated fixer. He has a capacity for love that is as far-reaching as is his gift for murder. He is our straightforward, calm-in-the-face-of-crisis narrator with a storyteller’s hypnotic knack for fantasy. He has an “innate talent for subordination” but running through his veins is a “virus” born of the power over life and death. And while his latest job puts him at the pinnacle of his trade, it may be mutating into his greatest mistake. . . .

About Jo Nesbo

Norwegian born Jo Nesbo is multi-talented. He was born in Oslo in 1960, growing up in Molde. He received his degree in Economics and Business Administration from the Norwegian School of Economics. He played football and had aspirations of playing professionally, but a serious knee injury destroyed those dreams. He served in the military, then formed a band called Di derre (Them There), who topped the charts in Norway. He kept his number crunching job during the day and his band performed at night.

The band was popular enough for a publisher to ask Nesbo to write a memoir about his life on the road with a band. For some reason, he instead came up with his first plot for what became his signature series with Inspector Harry Hole. The Bat was his first novel in that series.

So, you have a writer, musician, and economic analyst selling more than 3 million copies of his novels by 2014. Then, an astounding 33 million copies worldwide by 2017....... that is some impressive number crunching.

Nesbo has had one children's book (English translation) Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder, and also had one of his novels (Hodejegerne) made into a film, Headhunters.

Reviews

Goodreads review by David

Wow! Unbelievably good. Stunning. I couldn’t believe how much I enjoyed this book. Nesbo is hit and miss with me, mostly his Harry Hole books which don’t work every time. Too dark, depressing. I’ve read them and like them, but they are nothing like Nesbo’s stand alones. Loved, Headhunter, and The Ki......more

Goodreads review by Jim

More Nordic Noir! I came across this article about the origin of Scandinavian noir: [URL not allowed] This review: We go into the mind of a killer – a hired hit man. Yet he’s a ‘caring’ kind of guy. He visited a victim of one of his robberies in the hospital. He won’t get invol......more

Goodreads review by Evgnossia

Can someone explain to me what happened in this story?......more

Goodreads review by ☘Misericordia☘

Nesbo's as usual exhausting the reader with his over-the-top imagery, blood-bath-ery, badassery, and every other kind of assery unimaginable out there. Who would imagine getting chatty with their victim since the murder happens right before Christmas? A dyslexic killer enamoured with romance and phi......more

Quotes

“[A] tangled tale with a fateful twist.” —The Boston Globe

“Nesbø’s much-heralded gifts are on display—using his talent for conjuring the chilly Munch-like atmospherics of Oslo in the winter and his eye for grisly, alarming details that slam home the horror of the evil that men do.” —The New York Times Book Review
 
“[An] incendiary cocktail of murder, revenge and a hitman with ... problems.” —The Independent (London)
 
“Dark, intense, and bone chilling.” —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
 
“Quick, entertaining.... [An] excursion to a slightly different corner of the criminal underworld, where death and love become tangled together in the cold, dark streets.” —Paste Magazine

“In the crowded field of Scandinavian crime fiction, Nesbø’s books stand out.... [He] likes to rip plots up ... to play with the conventions of his genre.” —The New Yorker

“Noiry and pulpy: Nesbø’s gorgeously rendered images of snow, and of the titular blood on snow ... are crying out to be filmed.” —The Guardian (London)

“[Blood on Snow] moves along swiftly in the carefully controlled voice of the killer. And before you know it, you’re in the middle of one of the wildest scenes in recent crime fiction ... where there’s hardly any place to duck, just as in this entertaining novel, when the bullets fly.” —All Things Considered/NPR

“Nesbø is a master storyteller, gripping the reader from the first page.” —Daily Express (London)

“I am the world’s greatest living crime writer. [Jo Nesbø] is a man who is snapping at my heels like a rabid pit bull poised to take over my mantle when I dramatically pre-decease him.” —James Ellroy

“Nesbø explores the darkest criminal minds with grim delight and puts his killers where you least expect to find them.... His novels are maddeningly addictive.” —Vanity Fair

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