5/8/2023 0 Comments The leopard jo nesboHe takes it on, reluctantly but professionally, and as he watches Corina from the hotel room he’s rented across from the Hoffmans’ central Oslo apartment, he becomes “bewitched”. He doesn’t really want to say yes to his boss Hoffman but once he knows what the gig is, there’s no way out of it. So it has to be murder – and he has something of a taste and a talent for “the magical moment when I, and I alone, had power over life and death” – it’s “the virus I had in my blood”, he says. “I can’t drive inconspicuously… I can’t be used in robberies… I have a weak, sensitive nature I have to stay well away from drugs”, plus he falls in love so quickly that pimping isn’t an option either. Olav explains early on that he’s not much of a baddie. Blood On Snow is another stand-alone for the Norwegian superstar author, a short, pacy little thriller which, instead of delving into the psyche of a morally dubious cop, reveals a villain with a heart. Nesbø topped the charts twice in 2014, with Police, the latest thriller starring the brilliant but troubled alcoholic detective Harry Hole, and with stand-alone crime novel The Son.
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