The Devils Star, Jo Nesbo
The Devils Star, Jo Nesbo
10 Rating(s)
List: $22.50 | Sale: $15.75
Club: $11.25

The Devil's Star

Author: Jo Nesbo

Narrator: Robin Sachs

Unabridged: 14 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/26/2011

Synopsis

A young woman is murdered in her Oslo flat. One finger has been severed from her left hand, and behind her eyelid is secreted a tiny red diamond in the shape of a five-pointed star — a pentagram, the devil’s star.

Detective Harry Hole is assigned to the case with his long-time adversary Tom Waaler and initially wants no part in it. But Harry is already on notice to quit the force and is left with little alternative but to drag himself out of his alcoholic stupor and get to work.

A wave of similar murders is on the horizon. An emerging pattern suggests that Oslo has a serial killer on its hands, and the five-pointed devil’s star is key to solving the riddle.

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 serial killer obsessed with pentagrams and detective Harry Hole ready to mess everything up, AGAIN. A woman is found dead in Oslo with a pentagram on her eyes, the beginning of a killing spree. Infamous detective Harry Hole and shady Tom Waaler are assigned to solve the case, in a partnership des......more

Goodreads review by Matthew

I enjoyed The Devil’s Star and in general I enjoy Nesbo. However . . . he has this tendency to suddenly kinda stray from the story and go into what feel like stream of consciousness rambles that only kinda make sense in context to the book. In these rambles, he will suddenly get excessively specific......more

Goodreads review by Jeffrey

”Harry had felt the gnawing ache for alcohol from the moment he woke up that morning. First as an instinctive physical craving, then as a panic-stricken fear because he had put a distance between himself and his medicine by not taking his hip flask or any money with him to work. Now the ache was ent......more

Goodreads review by Baba

Harry Hole #5: The alcoholic compulsive investigator, detective Harry Hole is pretty much obsessed with investigating fellow police Tom Waaler, whom he is convinced is responsible for killing his police-partner as part of a coverup of Waaler's sideline of running a criminal empire! Harry's job, and......more

Add to Cart
Add to Wish List