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| Original Title: | Panserhjerte |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Harry Hole #8 |
| Characters: | Harry Hole, Kaja Solness, Mikael Bellman, Olav Hole, Katrine Bratt, Gunnar Hagen |
| Setting: | Oslo(Norway) Ustaoset(Norway) Hong Kong …more Congo …less |
| Literary Awards: | Bokhandlerprisen Nominee (2009), Corine Internationaler Buchpreis for Hörbuch (2010) |
Jo Nesbø
Hardcover | Pages: 634 pages Rating: 4.08 | 43106 Users | 2931 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Leopard (Harry Hole #8) |
| Author | : | Jo Nesbø |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 634 pages |
| Published | : | January 1st 2009 |
| Categories | : | Mystery. Crime. Fiction. Thriller |
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In the depths of winter, a killer stalks the city streets. His victims are two young women, both found with twenty-four inexplicable puncture wounds, both drowned in their own blood. The crime scenes offer no clues, the media is reaching fever pitch, and the police are running out of options. There is only one man who can help them, and he doesn't want to be found. Deeply traumatised by The Snowman investigation, which threatened the lives of those he holds most dear, Inspector Harry Hole has lost himself in the squalor of Hong Kong's opium dens. But with his father seriously ill in hospital, Harry reluctantly agrees to return to Oslo. He has no intention of working on the case, but his instinct takes over when a third victim is found brutally murdered in a city park.The victims appear completely unconnected to one another, but it's not long before Harry makes a discovery: the women all spent the night in an isolated mountain hostel. And someone is picking off the guests one by one. A heart-stopping thriller from the bestselling author of the The Snowman, The Leopard is an international phenomenon that will grip you until the final page.
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Ratings: 4.08 From 43106 Users | 2931 ReviewsWrite Up Epithetical Books The Leopard (Harry Hole #8)
I am, no doubt about it, a Nesbo fan.The Son is still my favorite of his books but I LOVE Harry Hole!And because I love Harry so much, it is difficult for me to see how his life takes a dark turn after a dark turn (was there a book in the series where Harry did not loose someone he loved??)In this installment the mystery is wonderful and I enjoyed it even though I did figure ahead of time some of the twists and turns.Im dying to dive into the next book in the series!Thank you Lena and Sofia.it starts slowly around middle I was enjoying some nice plot twist, but after that it went shockingly bad. things I did not enjoy:- made up torture devices are ok, but presenting them as a real historical artefact stinks- Norwegian police routinely travel to civil-war plagued African countries to investigate on a whim, without any official liason, contact, legal backup, guns, preparation or even a fucking medical check.Nesbo is trying too hard and puts too many locations (rwanda, hong kong,
Harry is back as his self-destructive, bastard self in this 8th instalment, and somehow my fondness for him grows. Once again Harry has hit rock bottom, broke and on the run in Hong Kong he has discovered a new vice, opium. Home in Norway a person is sadistically torturing and killing victims. It is Harry's specialist field, a serial killer, but what leverage can be used this time to get him to come home and do what he does best.Harry has more lives than a cat, and the only reason I know he is
I'm a latecomer to the Harry Hole Norwegian thrillers but am becoming a fan of the series and of author, Jo Nesbo. I thought The Snowman was grisly and taut but compared to The Leopard, its like a walk in the park. Nesbo definitely steps up the violence a notch. Not all readers will be appreciative of this but as long as Im just reading and not the victim, Im ok with this. In the Leopard we find Hole, holed up in Hong Kong making very little attempt to get his life back together. He is wallowing
They walked over to the low brick wall from where the forest sloped downwards into Oslo. The clouds in the west were tinged with orange and red, and the queues of traffic on the motorway glittered like phosphorescence against the blackness of the town. It seemed to be lying there in wait, keeping watch, Harry thought. A camouflaged beast of prey...The Leopard follows closely after The Snowman in the Oslo sequence, with a new and particularly callous serial killer taking out three women victims,
Dear Harry Hole:Last time I heard from you, you lost the woman you loved, her son who called you Dad and your middle finger. You quit Crime Squad for good, sulking from the trauma and devastation in your life caused chasing down that twisted Snowman. You moved to Hong Kong where you graduated at the top of your class from Jim Beam to heroin. No more serial killer hunts for you. Just smack, glass noodles and gambling on losing horses. The good life for someone who has given up on life. Then this
Jo Nesbo is simply brilliant. The Leopard is another masterful instalment in the very excellent Harry Hole series.But poor Harry, he is a mess. His last case (The Snowman - previous book) really took it out of him and his girlfriend, Rakel, and her son, Oleg, have left Sweden to put the ordeal behind them. Harry has holed up (yes I know) in Hong Kong of all places to indulge in drink, drugs and gambling. A new officer in the Crime Squad, Maja Solness, is sent to Hong Kong to bring him back
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