Knife, Jo Nesbo
Knife, Jo Nesbo
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Knife
A New Harry Hole Novel

Bestseller

Author: Jo Nesbo, Neil Smith

Narrator: John Lee

Unabridged: 16 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/09/2019


Synopsis

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Brilliant, audaciously rogue police officer Harry Hole is back and in the throes of a new, unanticipated rage in this installment of the New York Times bestselling series—once again hunting the murderer who has haunted his entire career.

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

Harry Hole is not in a good place. Rakel—the only woman he's ever loved—has ended it with him, permanently. He's been given a chance for a new start with the Oslo Police but it's in the cold case office, when what he really wants is to be investigating cases he suspects have ties to Svein Finne, the serial rapist and murderer who Harry helped put behind bars. And now, Finne is free after a decade-plus in prison—free, and Harry is certain, unreformed and ready to take up where he left off. But things will get worse. When Harry wakes up the morning after a blackout, drunken night with blood that's clearly not his own on his hands, it's only the very beginning of what will be a waking nightmare the likes of which even he could never have imagined.


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 Meredith (Trying to catch up!) on April 28, 2023

Wow. Knife adds another layer to the Harry Hole series! I wasn't expecting *that* ! I can’t say much without giving spoilers, so I am going to keep this review brief. A life-altering murder puts Harry Hole in the spotlight. With his career and credibility at stake, Harry falls into a deep dark abyss......more

Goodreads review by Joey on August 13, 2019

4.5 Stars —With the death of Stieg Larsson, there is only one foreign language author that I read on a regular basis, Jo Nesbo. I don’t see a lot of people reviewing Nesbo’s books, which is a shame, because they are really missing a treat. “Knife” is no exception. “Knife” stars Harry Hole, Nesbo’s g......more

Goodreads review by Scarlett on July 03, 2019

With great sadness, I must announce that Harry and I are done. I will not be reading this series in the future and I hope that Jo Nesbø will respect my decision and not write anything else. When you read 12 books of a series, it is inevitable that some of them will not be to your liking. Also, as a......more

Goodreads review by Book Clubbed on June 30, 2021

Nesbo is pushing Harry Hole to the limit here, seeking 0ut new sources of drama for the 12th book in the series, like an aging coach sending out his battered superstar for one last championship run. That's what this book is, really, a drama. Hole's alcoholism goes from debilitating to life-threateni......more

Goodreads review by Mihaela on May 31, 2024

3,5 Tot mai greu de înțeles felul in care autorul își distruge personajul. Poveste mi s-a părut ușor forțată în felul în care s-au aranjat piesele. Greu de înțeles resemnarea lui Harry în fața unei asemenea trădări. M-a cam dezamăgit acest volum!......more


Quotes

Praise for Knife:
 
“'Knife', Mr. Nesbo's 12th Harry Hole book, translated from the Norwegian by Neil Smith, is arguably the best entry yet in the author's outstanding series. ... The moral conundrums in 'Knife' are Dostoevskian, the surprises are breathtaking, the one-liners are amusing and the suspense is unrelenting. This is that rare lengthy book that one wouldn't want shortened by even a single page.”—Tom Nolan, The Wall Street Journal 

“Does anyone write creepier villains than Jo Nesbo? … No, I can’t think of anyone who makes my skin crawl like Nesbo.”—Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review

“‘Knife’ is indeed a sharp example of its genre. The pages turn, the violence is brutal, and the characters are well-drawn and mysterious. … The book is dense, but brisk. … Nesbo has a great sense of pacing. Each reveal – did he do it? did she? – is meticulously laid out as he takes readers along for the ride. … The final whodunit is powerful and leaves Harry – and readers – wondering what’s next.”—Rob Merrill, Associated Press 

“‘Knife’ is a reminder of why people read [Nesbo’s] books. … Thicker and more complex than most of the earliest Nesbo novels – including his often-slender standalone books – ‘Knife’ resembles in its heft and sweep ‘The Redbreast’ … The novel ends with a fascinating series of shifts and reframings both dramatically satisfying as fiction and – in the real, Norwegian world of crime-fighting in which the novel is set – ethically queasy. … It also leaves Harry on what can only be called a knife’s edge. The bad, or at least, ambiguous news for the novel’s characters is good news for the rest of us: There will, it seems, be more of these.”—Scott Timberg, Los Angeles Times 
 
“Stunning. Intense. Breathtaking. … Jo Nesbø has written the perfect thriller. A plot thick with intense imagery and nail-biting terror, and a protagonist so broken, you can’t help but want him to win.”—Suspense Magazine

“[Knife leaves] Nesbo on equal footing with Michael Connelly and Hole on the same level as Harry Bosch. This is crime noir at its absolute best – edgy, dark and showcasing one of the finest detective characters in modern fiction.”—Jon Land, The Providence Journal

“[Knife] may be Nesbø’s best storytelling yet. It’s not just clever; it’s diabolical, and let’s be glad it is, because the corkscrewing plot provides a measure of relief from the pain on view in this uncompromisingly intense and brilliant novel.”—Booklist, Starred Review

“Perhaps the most surprising development in this first-rate installment in the [Harry Hole] series is the tender emotion that wafts through Hole’s tortured self-reckonings. He’s the exception that makes the rule about there being no tears allowed on the crime beat.”—Lloyd Sachs, Chicago Tribune

“[Knife] unfolds with a cutthroat ferocity … This is an ultra-satisfying, seat-of-your-pants action mystery.”—San Francisco Book Review
 
“[Knife is] a book that contains at once the Harry we have come to expect and the Harry we hoped was somewhere underneath all that Hole bravado. … The book’s abundant subplots are miraculously tied together in a violent, remarkably satisfying denouement. Most importantly, though, there’s still the emphatically compassionate, stubbornly singular creation that is Harry Hole. It’s good to find him still on our side.”—Steve Whitton, The Anniston Star

Praise for the work of Jo Nesbø:
 
“Jo Nesbø is my new favorite thriller writer and Harry Hole is my new hero.”—Michael Connelly
 
“Nesbø writes like an angel. As in Lucifer.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer
 
“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
 
“Jo Nesbø has ripped the throat out of the serial-killer genre. He’s exsanguinated it, soaking up every dark pleasure and wringing them out onto the page. There’s no need to ever read another one, Nesbø has so completely deconstructed the trope with a multi-dimensional novel that blurs lines among crime, psychological procedural and, yes, horror thrillers. . . . [Hole] survives in a literary landscape dreamt up by Stephen King or Edgar Allen Poe. . . .  Brilliant . . . Nesbø shows his true mastery . . .  Nesbø’s plots are evocative of James Ellroy and Lee Child with crime layered upon crime.” —Robert Anglen, Arizona Republic