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Review: Nemesis

Editorial Review - Kirkus Reviews

Oslo's favorite cowboy, Inspector Harry Hole, tackles the case of the serial bank robber with an itchy trigger finger. A masked man walks into a bank, points a gun at a teller and announces that if the branch manager hasn't emptied the till into his sack within 25 seconds, he'll shoot her dead. When the manager runs six seconds over, the masked man makes good on his threat and escapes with the money. The subsequent investigation indicates that the robber was a professional unknown to the city's fraternity of bank robbers, someone who acted with cool precision throughout the procedure and left no trace of his identity behind. So why would he do something as rash as murder Stine Grette in the middle of a highly successful job? Before a single clue has turned up, Harry (The Redbreast, 2007) finds himself with a second case that cuts much deeper: the apparent suicide of Anna Bethsen, the ex-lover with whom he spent the evening of her death. The trail to the bank robber, whom Harry alone insists on calling the killer, leads from a photograph inside Anna's shoe to a not-so-successful importer to a bank-robbing prodigy holed up in Brazil. Before the case is over, Harry will become a fugitive framed for murder and forced to depend on his unlikely alliance with an imprisoned gypsy crime lord. The high-intensity action is threaded through a series of Chinese boxes revealing one false solution after another before the brilliantly inventive final twist.

User reviews

Review: Nemesis (Harry Hole #4)

User Review - Papalodge - Goodreads

Oooops - read this book out or sequence. Its hard to keep track when the translations from Norwegian to English are not done year by year. For instance the first Harry Hole novel was written around ... Read full review

Review: Nemesis (Harry Hole #4)

User Review - Barbara Tiede - Goodreads

I'm just mad about Harry, so even though this isn't one of my favourite Nesbos, I thoroughly enjoyed it. It apparently follows on from Redbreast. Some time has passed---not enough for Harry to have ... Read full review

Review: Nemesis (Harry Hole #4)

User Review - Goodreads

What an enjoyable book, despite the unfortunate name of the protagonist, Harry Hole. I made it past that complaint soon enough. Characters are well developed and nicely flawed, and the plot should be ...

Review: Nemesis (Harry Hole #4)

User Review - Michael - Goodreads

I very much like this author. I've read more recent items, then went to this earlier one. I like the Norwegian atmosphere--always so gloomy and gray, and chilly. Best of all is the detective Harry ... Read full review

Review: Nemesis (Harry Hole #4)

User Review - Kate - Goodreads

I did not care about a single character in this book. Predictable and exhausting. Read full review

Review: Nemesis (Harry Hole #4)

User Review - Alveas - Goodreads

The Search for the Prince continues, no clues at this episode, so close from the real enemy and so far from the truth. Harry in one way or another finds the way to keep going with the search. His ... Read full review

Review: Nemesis (Harry Hole #4)

User Review - William - Goodreads

While this is the fourth Harry Hole novel, it reads like a sequel to Redbreast, which is the only other one I have read. Nesbo is meticulous in plot-construction. This Hole opus has multiple plots ... Read full review

Review: Nemesis (Harry Hole #4)

User Review - Chad - Goodreads

Something about this series is so irresistible, so compelling, that I can't quite put my finger on it. Nesbo is a fantastic storyteller...looking forward to the next one! Read full review