The Devils Star - Softcover

Nesbo, Jo

4.06

70,611 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099552191 ISBN 13: 9780099552192

Publisher: Gardners Books Holding Acc

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A young woman is murdered in her flat and a tiny red diamond in the shape of a five-pointed star is found behind her eyelid. Detective Harry Hole is assigned to the case, alongside his long-time adversary Tom Waaler and initially wants no part in it. But Harry is already on his final warning and has little alternative but to drag himself out of his alcoholic stupor when it becomes apparent that Oslo has a serial killer on its hands. This paperback book has 540 pages and measures: 17.8 x 11 x 3.2cm

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Review:

"Bucks the trend. Nesbo's long-range plotting is careful, and the debate about the Norwegian elite's behaviour during the war cleverly managed." -- London Review of Books

"Superb." -- Daily Telegraph (London)

"Nesbo has a knack for Euro noir." -- Entertainment Weekly

"Nobody can delve into the dark, twisted mind of a murderer better than a Scandinavian thriller writer."--Vogue

"A well-crafted rollercoaster of a book. . . . Nesbo sets a cracking pace, the shambolic Hole is exasperating and endearing by turns, and a series of spectacular plot twists lead to a thrilling finale. Highly recommended."--The Guardian (London)

"Astonishingly confident. . . . The Devil's Star scores with an intriguing plot and Nesbo's mastery of pace and tension."--The Times (London)

"A complex tale of murder, revenge and betrayal . . . perfectly paced and painfully suspenseful. . . . Readers will delight in Hole, a laconic hero as doggedly stubborn as Connelly's Harry Bosch, and yet with a prickly appeal all his own."--Publishers Weekly, starred review

"In crime fiction terms, the ongoing Harry Hole is epic along the lines of something Count Tolstoy might have dreamed up. . . . Tremendous emotional resonance."--Toronto Star

"Superb."--Daily Telegraph (London)

"There's Nordic noir, and then there's Nesbo noir. Jo Nesbo's reputation as the reigning bad boy of Norwegian crime fiction has grown steadily in the USA with the critically acclaimed novels The Redbreast and Nemesis and now THE DEVIL'S STAR."--USA Today

From the Publisher:

Detective Harry Hole: an angry and off-the-rails detective who wants to play the game by his own rules.

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