From the
inside flap
“Harry
is in a bad place. Rakel─the only woman he’s ever loved─has kicked him out,
permanently. He’s drinking again. And though he’s been given a chance for a new
start with the Oslo Police, it’s in the dreaded cold case office. Wht he wants
to be is investigating─what he’s made to be investigating─are new cases that he
suspects have ties to Svein Finne, the most notorious criminal in Norway, the
serial murder and rapist Harry helped put behind bars a decade ago. Now Finne
is free. Free and, Harry is certain, unreformed, and already taking up where he
left off.
“But
things are about to get worse. When Harry wakes up the morning after a drunken
blackout, it’s only the beginning of what will be a waking nightmare. . .”
Review
Knife is an
excellent, near-impossible-to-set-down pot boiler thriller that─for the most
part─masterfully builds on previous events in the series, repercussions from Harry’s
and others’ pasts that now come to often-violent fruition. Main characters are
knocked off or their stories warmly or horrifyingly expanded upon, big-and-bold
twists and turns punctuate every other chapter, and its pace is full-speed-ahead.
The
only misstep is the identity of the main killer(s) stalking Harry’s family.
While it was technically well-foreshadowed, its seeds planted expertly along the
way, the reason for his/her turn to the dark side felt forced, a trifle-excuse
of a justification for Nesbø to further show off his clever chops. That said,
it is a minor nit, albeit a near-the-end-book-take-away one, in an otherwise
wow-that’s-popcorn-worthy entertaining read.
Knife is
worth reading, and owning, if you can get past a killer (or killers) whose breaking
points seem writerly. Followed by Killing Moon.
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