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Jo Nesbo Books In Order

Harry Hole Books In Publication Order

  1. The Bat (1997)
  2. Co*ckroaches (1998)
  3. The Redbreast (2000)
  4. Nemesis (2002)
  5. The Devil’s Star (2003)
  6. The Redeemer (2005)
  7. The Snowman (2007)
  8. The Leopard (2009)
  9. Phantom (2011)
  10. Police (2013)
  11. The Thirst (2017)
  12. Knife (2019)

Doktor Proctor Books In Publication Order

  1. Doctor Proctor’s Fart Powder (2007)
  2. Bubble in the Bathtub / Time-Travel Bath Bomb (2008)
  3. Who Cut the Cheese? (2010)
  4. The Magical Fruit (2012)
  5. The Great Gold Robbery (2013)
  6. Silent (But Deadly) Night (2016)
  7. Can Doctor Proctor Save Christmas? (2017)

Blood on Snow Books In Publication Order

  1. Blood on Snow (2014)
  2. Midnight Sun (2015)

Hogarth Shakespeare Books In Publication Order

  1. Macbeth (2018)

Jo Nesbo Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. Headhunters (2008)
  2. The Son (2014)
  3. The Kingdom (With: ) (2020)

Short Story Collections In Publication Order

  1. The Jealousy Man and Other Stories (With: ) (2021)

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Jo Nesbo Books Overview

The Redbreast

From one of the most celebrated crime writers in Europe comes an epic new novel, brilliant in scope and design a deep and fearless investigation of betrayal spanning two centuries and three continents. Police Detective Harry Hole has made a terrible mistake. An embarrassment in the line of duty has pulled him off his usual beat. Reassigned to mundane surveillance tasks, he reluctantly agrees to monitor neo Na*zi activities in Oslo. But as Hole is drawn into an underground world of illegal gun trafficking, brutal beatings, and sexual extortions, he soon learns that he must act fast to prevent an international conspiracy from unfolding. Trapped in the crosshairs of the man with all the answers, Harry Hole plunges headlong into a mystery with roots deep in the past. His investigation takes him back to Norway’s darkest hour when members of the young nation’s government collaborated with leaders of Na*zi Germany. Dredging up a painful history of denial, Hole turns his attention to the Norwegian troops who fought for Adolf Hitler on the Eastern front. Branded by their countrymen as traitors, the soldiers who survived the brutal Russian winter the hunger, fear, cold, grenades, and snipers returned home as scapegoats of a nation’s atonement. Sixty years later, old grudges and betrayals appear to have been laid to rest, until Hole realizes that someone has begun to pick off the surviving soldiers one by one. With only his troubled, guilt ridden conscience as a guide, Hole must move quickly through the traps and mirrors of a twisted criminal mind. But as his sanity slips in a slow burn of anger and alcohol, his mistakes continue to pile up. And if he fails to quicken the pace, Norway’s darkest hour since World War II just might lie in the future. In a tightly woven plot that takes readers from the icy steppes of the Russian front to a seemingly peaceful springtime in modern day Oslo, Norwegian crime writer Jo Nesb delves into a sinister national history with uncommon bravery. Transforming shades of moral gray into an explosive palette of characters, Nesb holds readers in suspense until the final pages. His deft orchestration of parallel narratives knows no match in the genre, and his thematic reach exceeds even the most ambitious thrillers on the market. With the U.S. publication of The Redbreast, American readers will learn what European readers have known for a decade that Nesb ‘s writing is ‘quite simply brilliant’ Weekend Avisen, Denmark.

Nemesis

Gripping and surprising, Nemesis is a nail biting thriller from one of the biggest stars in crime fiction. Grainy closed circuit television footage shows a man walking into an Oslo bank and putting a gun to a cashier’s head. He tells the young woman to count to twenty five. When the robber doesn’t get his money in time, the cashier is executed, and two million Norwegian kroner disappear without a trace. Police Detective Harry Hole is assigned to the case. While Hole’s girlfriend is away in Russia, an old flame decides to get in touch. Former girlfriend and struggling artist Anna Bethsen invites Hole to dinner, and he can’t resist a visit. But the evening ends in an all too familiar way as Hole awakens with a thundering headache, a missing cell phone, and no memory of the past twelve hours. That same morning, Anna is found shot dead in her bed. Hole begins to receive threatening e mails. Is someone trying to frame him for this unexplained death? Meanwhile, the bank robberies continue with unparalleled savagery. As the death toll continues to mount, Hole becomes a prime suspect in a criminal investigation led by his longtime adversary Tom Waaler and Waaler’s vigilante police force. Racing from the cool, autumnal streets of Oslo to the steaming villages of Brazil, Hole is determined to absolve himself of suspicion by uncovering all the information needed to crack both cases. But the ever threatening Waaler is not finished with his old archenemy quite yet. Edgar Nominee for Best Novel of the Year

The Devil’s Star

Oslo is sweltering in the summer heat when a young woman is murdered in her flat. One finger has been cut off and a tiny red diamond in the shape of a pentagram a five pointed star is found under her eyelid. Detective Harry Hole is assigned the case with Tom Waaler, a colleague he neither likes nor trusts. He believes Tom is behind a gang of arms smugglers and the murder of his partner. But Harry, an off the rails alcoholic, is barely holding on to his job and has little choice but to play nice. Five days later, another woman is reported missing. When her severed finger is found adorned with a star shaped red diamond ring, Harry fears a serial killer is on the loose. Determined to find the killer and expose the crooked Tom Waaler, Harry discovers the two investigations melding in unexpected ways. But pursuing the truth comes at a price, and soon Harry finds himself on the run and forced to make difficult decisions about a future he may not live to see. One of the brightest stars of Scandinavian crime writing, Jo Nesb has been compared to Ian Rankin, Michael Connelly, and Henning Mankell. His novels are bestsellers throughout Europe, acclaimed by critics and revered by aficionados of thrillers and mysteries. Brilliantly plotted and paced, The Devil’s Star shows Nesb at his absolute best, combining powerful emotional resonance with truly stunning suspense.

The Redeemer

One freezing night in Oslo Christmas shoppers gather to listen to a Salvation Army street concert. An explosion cuts through the music, and a man in uniform falls to the ground, shot in the head at point blank range. Harry Hole and his team have little to work with: no immediate suspect, no weapon and no motive. But when the assassin discovers he has shot the wrong man, Harry Hole’s troubles have only just begun. After some exceptionally shrewd detective work, the team begins to close in on a suspected hit man, monitoring his credit card, false passport and the line to his employer. With no money, only six bullets and no place to stay in the bitter cold, the hit man becomes increasingly desperate. He will stop at nothing to eliminate his target. Moving at a breathless pace, ‘The Redeemer‘ is Jo Nesbo’s most gripping thriller yet.

The Snowman

The next thrilling installment in the Harry Hole series. The night the first snow falls a young boy wakes to find his mother gone. He walks through the silent house, but finds only wet footprints on the stairs. In the garden looms a solitary figure: a snowman bathed in cold moonlight, its black eyes glaring up at the bedroom windows. Round its neck is his mother’s pink scarf. Inspector Harry Hole is convinced there is a link between the disappearance and a menacing letter he received some months earlier. As Harry and his team delve into unsolved case files, they discover that an alarming number of wives and mothers have gone missing over the years. When a second woman disappears Harry’s suspicions are confirmed: he is a pawn in a deadly game. For the first time in his career Harry finds himself confronted with a serial killer operating on his turf, a killer who will drive him to the brink of insanity. A brilliant thriller with a pace that never lets up, The Snowman confirms Jo Nesb ‘s position as an international star of crime fiction.

The Leopard

With Henning Mankell having written his last Wallander novel and Stieg Larsson no longer with us, I have had to make the decision on whom to confer the title of best current Nordic writer of crime fiction…
Jo Nesb wins. Marcel Berlins, The Times U.K. Two young women are found murdered in Oslo, both drowned in their own blood. Media coverage quickly reaches fever pitch: Could this be the work of a serial killer? The crime scenes offer no coherent clues, the police investigation is stalled, and the one man who might be able to help doesn t want to be found. Traumatized by his last case, Inspector Harry Hole has lost himself in the squalor of Hong Kong’s opium dens. Yet when he is compelled, at last, to return to Norway his father is dying Harry s buried instincts begin to take over. After a female MP is discovered brutally murdered, nothing can keep him from the investigation. There is little to go on: a piece of rope, a scrap of wool, a bit of gravel, an unexpected connection between the victims. And Harry will soon come to understand that he is dealing with a psychopath for whom insanity is a vital retreat, someone who will put him to the test in both his professional and personal lives as never before. Ruthlessly intelligent and suspenseful, The Leopard is Jo Nesb s most electrifying novel yet absolutely gripping from first to last. From the Hardcover edition.

Phantom

The next instalment in the Harry Hole series, from the bestselling and internationally acclaimed Jo Nesbo. Summer. A boy, Gusto, is lying on the floor of an Oslo apartment. He is bleeding and will soon die. He is trying to make sense of what has happened. In order to place his life and death in some kind of context he begins to tell his story. Outside, the church bells chime. Autumn. Former police detective Harry Hole returns to Oslo after 3 years abroad. He seeks out his former boss at police headquarters to request permission to investigate a homicide. But the case is already closed; a young junkie, Gusto, was in all likelihood shot by a pal in a conflict over drugs. Harry is granted permission to visit the accused boy in prison. There, he meets himself and his own history. It’s the start of a solitary investigation of the most impossible case in Harry Hole’s life. And while Harry is searching, Gusto continues his story. A man walks the dark streets of nighttime Oslo. The streets are his and he has always been there. He is a Phantom.

Doctor Proctor’s Fart Powder

Nilly is new to the neighborhood, but he is quick to make friends: Doctor Proctor, an eccentric professor; and Lisa, who is teased by the twin terrors Truls and Trym. Nilly and Lisa help Doctor Proctor develop his latest invention, a powder that makes you fart. The powder makes Nilly and Lisa very popular at school when they sell it for fifty cents a bag. And they get revenge on Truls and Trym by giving them a dose of extra strength fart powder that shoots them up into a tree. All is good farty fun. Until someone steals the industrial strength fart powder which was supposed to make Doctor Proctor famous to use for evil purposes…
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Bubble in the Bathtub / Time-Travel Bath Bomb

The Fart Powder was such a successful invention that Doctor Proctor, Nilly, and Lisa couldn t stop there. Next up: a time travelling bathtub. You just hop in, lather up the Time Soap, and wish for where you d like to go. Doctor Proctor has plans for this new invention. You see, he lost his true love years ago, when Juliette Margarine married an evil count. The good Doctor has never quite gotten over this, and he’s going back to change it. But when things go wrong, it’s up to Nilly and Lisa to travel back in time to right all wrongs and reunite the two lovebirds. Nothing is quite so simple in a Jo Nesbo book. Enter a herd of hippos, a scheming assistant, and Time Soap that keeps going awry, sending Nilly and Lisa to the storming of the Bastille! Fortunately, as in every Jo Nesbo book, the Fart Powder solves everything.

Who Cut the Cheese?

Doctor Proctor, the kids, and the famous fart powder are back for another wildly funny adventure!Nilly, Lisa, and Doctor Proctor are too busy inventing things to watch TV. They re missing out on the hot singing competition. But then Nilly and Lisa notice that their friends and family are acting really weird. And the only people acting weird are the ones watching TV. What’s going on is WAY bigger than a singing competition. It could mean the end of the world. Or an SBD could save everything! Let er rip.

Headhunters

With Headhunters, Jo Nesb has crafted a funny, dark, and twisted caper story worthy of Quentin Tarantino and the Coen brothers. FIRST TIME PUBLISHED IN THE U.S. NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM MAGNOLIA PICTURES. Roger Brown is a corporate headhunter, and he’s a master of his profession. But one career simply can t support his luxurious lifestyle and his wife s fledgling art gallery. At an art opening one night he meets Clas Greve, who is not only the perfect candidate for a major CEO job, but also, perhaps, the answer to his financial woes: Greve just so happens to mention that he owns a priceless Peter Paul Rubens painting that s been lost since World War II and Roger Brown just so happens to dabble in art theft. But when he breaks into Greve s apartment, he finds more than just the painting. And Clas Greve may turn out to be the worst thing that s ever happened to Roger Brown.

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