Jo Nesbo, musician, economist and author of the best-selling series featuring Detective Harry Hole, has won many prizes for his novels, including the Glass Key, the Riverton Prize and the Norwegian Bookclub prize for best ever Norwegian crime novel. His first novel to be published in English was The Devil's Star, which sold more than 100,000 copies in Norway alone. He lives in Oslo.
THE NEXT STIEG LARSSON * INDEPENDENT * A page-turner you won't want to put down * Time Out * A complex, utterly captivating story * Evening Standard * Scary...culminates in a nail-biting episode with overtones of The Day of the Jackal * Independent * Norway's finest crime writer... Nesbo clearly demonstrates his skill at executing expertly-crafted, well-paced thrillers that he sustains to the very end in a compelling fashion. As first novels go, The Redbreast and The Devil's Star are as accomplished as any reader is likely to experience * Daily Express * Exciting, witty, melancholy and thought-provoking * Daily Telegraph * A complicated story of passion, lost love, betrayal and murder * The Times * It requires some skilled plotting, but Nesbø brings it off, and Harry, with his quirky sense of humour, is a likeable hero despite his many flaws * Sunday Telegraph * Jo Nesbo has the skill to blend intriguing mysteries with genuine emotion * Evening Standard * Nobody can delve into the dark, twisted mind of a murderer better than the Scandinavian thriller writer * Vogue *