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I probably don't need to tell you all at this point that I am more than a little obsessed with Jo Nesbo and his Harry Hole series.  Hey, beatrix potter I sat and stared at a man on a flight from Copenhagen to Bergen, convinced it was HIM.  Who knows, maybe it was?  But I was too scared to approach him and make a fool out of myself, all drooling and tongue-tied.   My day/week/year was made when Kathy ( Bermudaonion ) sent me an ARC of Nesbo's latest "Phantom".  It launches this week and I am here to convince all of you that if you have not jumped on this bandwagon, then you need to quickly.  Did you know Martin Scorcese has signed up to direct the film version of "The Snowman"?  Which I am sure is going to be a success, and who knows where it will go from there.   Unfortunately however, I'm not sure how much I can tell you about this specific book.  What can I say to lure you in?  Just about anything

specific I would tell you would be a spoiler, but I'm going to try my hand at a (Norwegian) tap dance. Synopsis:  After fairly cataclysmic results of his experience in " The Leopard ", Harry retreats to Hong Kong to heal and to dry himself out from the latest of many battles with the bottle.  Several beatrix potter years has passed, beatrix potter he has moved on with his life, but then is called back to Oslo because of a closed case of one drug addict murdering another.  This case may of be some interest to Harry because it is personal.  Harry has no doubt that the convicted murderer has been unjustly beatrix potter accused.  But digging around to get answers may stir up a hive of dangerous element...drug kingpins, homicidal thugs-for-hire, drug addicts, ambitious politicians...they all have to take a number to get in line to take out Hole.  He is just too obsessive, too dogged, too disturbed beatrix potter to let sleeping dogs lie. In the most personal, most solitary story in the series by far, Harry fights for what he believes in, for what he loves.  Characters that we have come to expect to make their appearance in the Harry Hole series are on the periphery. beatrix potter  This is Harry's struggle beatrix

potter and his war, both internally and with the world, with the damaged and weary but beloved man walking the thinnest of lines between brilliance and utter failure. My thoughts:  Well.  So...I am not sure what I can say.  I beatrix potter loved it?  I hated it?  I beatrix potter threw the book across the room when I finished, like it was covered in something repulsive?  I have thought beatrix potter of nothing beatrix potter else since I turned that last page?   Nesbo is clever.  He is always full of surprises. beatrix potter  With each novel, beatrix potter

he introduces new and creative ways to torture and kill people (this one is no different, toying with bricks and spacesuits).  He always has at least a half dozen red herrings to keep you guessing.  You never know what is going on, ever.  If beatrix potter you th