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Title details for The Thirst by Jo Nesbo - Available

The Thirst

#11 in series

by Jo Nesbo
Neil Smith
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#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this electrifying thriller, Inspector Harry Hole hunts down a serial murderer who targets his victims—on Tinder. • Part of the New York Times bestselling series.

The murder victim, a self-declared Tinder addict. The one solid clue—fragments of rust and paint in her wounds—leaves the investigating team baffled.
Two days later, there’s a second murder: a woman of the same age, a Tinder user, an eerily similar scene.
The chief of police knows there’s only one man for this case. But Harry Hole is no longer with the force. He promised the woman he loves, and he promised himself, that he’d never go back: not after his last case, which put the people closest to him in grave danger.
But there’s something about these murders that catches his attention, something in the details that the investigators have missed. For Harry, it’s like hearing “the voice of a man he was trying not to remember.” Now, despite his promises, despite everything he risks, Harry throws himself back into the hunt for a figure who haunts him, the monster who got away.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Harry Hole

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    May 9, 2017

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781524735159
      • File size: 493531 KB
      • Duration: 17:08:11

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      John Lee at his best is about as good as it gets in audiobook narration. Jo Nesb� in top form is a showstopper, and when they're together, perfectly in sync as here, you may need a Valium to get through the final chapters. Nesb�'s specialty is gore-filled serial-killer puzzles. If that's your meat, you're in it for the bizarre imagination and plot twists, so be fair, you can't also expect Sinclair Lewis social realism. But then add John Lee, who is such a perfectionist that when a character gets his nose broken, Lee plays the man's dialogue in all the rest of his high-octane scenes as if he had his nose stuffed with bloody cotton. Bravo to both of them for this thrill ride. B.G. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2017, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from April 10, 2017
      Bestseller Nesbø’s exceptional 11th Harry Hole novel (after 2013’s Police) finds the alcoholic, demon-ridden, occasionally suicidal Oslo police detective in better shape than usual. Harry is “currently a sober lecturer at Police College.” In the past, he often woke up full of angst; now he’s consistently waking up feeling happy. As for his marriage to his great love, Rakel, “If he could have, he would have been more than happy to copy and paste the three years that had passed since the wedding and relive those days over and over again.” Of course, this relatively blissful state can’t last. Harry soon joins the hunt for a serial killer, whose MO—cutting the throats of his victims in vampire fashion—is similar to that of the one killer who escaped him and still invades his dreams. Meanwhile, Rakel slips into a mysterious coma. Nesbø depicts a heartbreakingly conflicted Harry, who both wants to forget the horrors he’s trying to prevent and knows he has to remember them in all their grim detail. Author tour. 100,000-copy announced first printing. Agent: Niclas Salomonsson, Salomonsson Agency (Sweden).

    • Publisher's Weekly

      June 5, 2017
      Actor Lee delivers an excellent, nuanced performance in this audio edition of the latest installment of Nesbø’s Harry Hole series. As the book opens, former detective Hole is an instructor at a police college in Oslo, but he’s quickly drawn in to the hunt for a serial killer who may be a figure from his past. In this, Hole’s 11th outing, Nesbø again keeps the prose lean and the pace taut. Lee gives a distinctive voice and accent to each of the novel’s many characters, yet even while successfully differentiating this large ensemble, he manages to conceal the identity of a villain whose voice is heard midway through the novel. And when that same villain’s nose is broken later in the book, he skillfully adds a subtle but discernible nasal twinge. As Hole and his ragtag team of investigators close in on their target, the veteran voice actor ratchets up the tension. Lee’s suave English brogue is a perfect match for the gritty material and the many Briticisms of the translation. A Knopf hardcover.

Formats

  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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Languages

  • English

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