The Devil's Star

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Jo Nesbø: The Devil's Star (Paperback, 2006, Vintage Books)

mass market paperback, 368 pages

English language

Published Aug. 1, 2006 by Vintage Books.

ISBN:
978-0-09-947853-9
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OCLC Number:
64554591

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5 stars (6 reviews)

Detective Harry Hole: an angry and off-the-rails detective who wants to play the game by his own rules. A young woman is murdered in her Oslo flat. One finger has been severed from her left hand, and behind her eyelid is secreted a tiny red diamond in the shape of a five-pointed star – a pentagram, the devil's star. Detective Harry Hole is assigned to the case with his long-time adversary Tom Waaler and initially wants no part in it. But Harry is already on notice to quit the force and is left with little alternative but to drag himself out of his alcoholic stupor and get to work.A wave of similar murders is on the horizon. An emerging pattern suggests that Oslo has a serial killer on its hands, and the five-pointed devil's star is key to solving the riddle.

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5 stars

Classic Harry Hole. Loved to revisit the older title, after going through the newer ones already. Surprisingly, Harry didn’t sustain significant damage in this one. There are two parallel plots going on, the serial killer emerging from this book and an internal story stemming from the previous book, but you’ll be happy to know they all tie off nicely at the end.

As always, Nesbo’s writing is almost cinematic, every scene as if transcribed from a movie screen, slowly building to the final crescendo. Crime mystery at its finest.

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4 stars

ну… мабуть, оціню на четвірочку: з натяжкою, але принаймні як на скандинавський детективний трилер™ це не найгірший взірець, читабельне як для розваги (з традиційною поправкою на те, що я не читав, а слухав аудіоверсію французького перекладу в аматорській, непрофесійній начитці).

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Subjects

  • Crime & mystery
  • Mystery & Detective - General
  • Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General
  • Fiction - Mystery/ Detective