The Redeemer (Harry Hole)

A fantastically gripping thriller from the best-selling author of The Snowman.

Christmas shoppers stop to hear a Salvation Army concert on a crowded Oslo street. A gunshot cuts through the music and the bitter cold: one of the singers falls dead, shot in the head at point-blank range. Harry Hole€"the Oslo Police Department€s best investigator and worst civil servant€"has little to work with: no suspect, no weapon, and no motive. But Harry€s troubles will multiply. As the search closes in, the killer becomes increasingly desperate, and Harry€s chase takes him to the most forbidden corners of the former Yugoslavia.

Yet it€s when he returns to Oslo that he encounters true darkness: among the homeless junkies and Salvationists, eagerly awaiting a savior to deliver them from misery€"whether he brings new life or immediate death.

With its shrewdly vertiginous narrative, acid-etched characters, and white-hot pace, The Redeemer is resounding proof of Jo Nesb¸€s standing as one of the best crime writers of our time.