Cockroaches, Jo Nesbo
Cockroaches, Jo Nesbo
5 Rating(s)
List: $20.00 | Sale: $14.00
Club: $10.00

Cockroaches
The Second Inspector Harry Hole Novel

Author: Jo Nesbo

Narrator: John Lee

Unabridged: 9 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/11/2014

Synopsis

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this installment of the New York Times bestselling series, Inspector Harry Hole heads to Thailand to investigate the murder of a Norweigian ambassador.

"Nesbø never lets a page go by without making characters and situations vivid."—Houston Chronicle

“I can’t think of anyone who makes my skin crawl like Nesbo."—The New York Times Book Review

When the Norwegian ambassador to Thailand is found dead in a Bangkok brothel, Inspector Harry Hole is dispatched from Oslo to help hush up the case. But once he arrives Harry discovers that this case is about much more than one random murder. There is something else, something more pervasive, scrabbling around behind the scenes. Or, put another way, for every cockroach you see in your hotel room, there are hundreds behind the walls. Surrounded by round-the-clock traffic noise, Harry wanders the streets of Bangkok lined with go-go bars, temples, opium dens, and tourist traps, trying to piece together the story of the ambassador’s death even though no one asked him to, and no one wants him to—not even Harry himself.

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 Federico

A politician murdered in very politically incorrect circumstances, an extremely delicate situation, and a brilliant detective determined to making it worse. An important norwegian ambassador is found dead with a knife in the back, in a room of an underground brothel. In this sequel of the series t......more

Goodreads review by Evgnossia

Review was originally published on my Blog Through the Chapters “No persons or events mentioned in this book should be confused with real persons or events. Reality is far too strange for that.” New country. A dark case. The demons that Harry Hole has to fight; to stay sane; to keep moving......more

Goodreads review by James

I confess that I was pleasantly surprised by this book. It’s the second in Jo Nesbo’s series featuring Norwegian homicide detective Harry Hole, and as those who follow the series know, for whatever reason, Nesbo’s publishers did not release the books in order here in the U.S. Rather, they jumped int......more

Goodreads review by ⊱ Sonja ⊰

Als in Bangkok der norwegische Botschafter ermordet wird, schickt man den Polizisten Harry Hole nach Thailand, um den Mord aufzuklären. Harry ist schnell klar, dass in Bangkok Moral und Gesetz nicht viel wert zu sein scheinen… * Meine Meinung * Ein sehr durchdachter und sehr spannender Krimi, der de......more

Quotes

"Nesbø never lets a page go by without making characters and situations vivid."—Houston Chronicle

"The world is dark and frozen, according to Nordic noir, and so is the human heart.
But it's the magic Nesbø works with the genre's tropes that matters.... [He] might be my favorite of the lot."—Michael Robbins, Chicago Tribune

"Satisfyingly twisty.... A compelling, hard-edged thriller."—Booklist

“Excellent ... the most popular among [Nesbø’s] earlier novels and one that casts a cold eye on the reality of expatriate life of some Europeans in Asia.”—The Irish Independent
 
“The complex narrative and large dramatis personae are handled with steely authority ... The picturesque seediness of Bangkok and Thailand turns out to be Harry Hole's natural element, with Nesbo plumping his hero down in a very non-Norwegian setting.”—The Independent (UK)

Praise for Jo Nesbø

“Nesbø writes like an angel. As in Lucifer.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer

“Harry Hole is fast becoming one of the planet’s favorite detectives. And his demons are almost as legendary as his observational and analytical skills.”—The Mirror (UK)
 
“Nesbø explores the darkest criminal minds with grim delight and puts his killer where you least expect to find them.... His novels are maddeningly addictive.”—Vanity Fair

Add to Cart
Add to Wish List