Inspector Harry Hole of the Oslo Crime Squad is dispatched to Sydney to observe a murder case. Harry is free to offer assistance, but he has firm instructions to stay out of trouble. The victim is a twenty-three year old Norwegian woman who is a minor celebrity back home. Never one to sit on the sidelines, Harry befriends one of the lead detectives, and one of the witnesses, as he is drawn deeper into the case. Together, they discover that this is only the latest in a string of unsolved murders, and the pattern points toward a psychopath working his way across the country. As they circle closer and closer to the killer, Harry begins to fear that no one is safe, least of all those investigating the case.

Ive been wanting to start this series for years now, and I finally did that. And the first book in the Harry Hole series is amazing.

This book is about Harry Hole being send to Sydney to help the police to solve a murder case which turned out to be a serial killer case rather than one singular murder case.

The plot here is very good because we don’t have the idea who the killer is until the last 40 or so pages. And in my opinion makes me give the book some extra points if the identity of the killer is given to us when the main character breaks it down for everyone else in the book.

The main character which of course is Harry Hole, is one of the best main character I ever encountered so far at least. Because you can truly see the depths of his character. Because you get to see that he is a good person but at the same time he is haunted with the demons of his past as he is struggling to solve the case.

And the rest of the characters which we get to know in this book are very good as well. They all have something unique to them and something that makes us like them. Which really shows how good of an author Jo Nesbø really is.

This book has one pretty gruesome scene in the middle of it, when a clown is killed in a very brutal way. Which might trigger some people but for me it only added another layer to this book. Because we truly get to see how gruesome the serial killer who Harry Hole tries to catch really is.

The writing style is very good as well, it is like the author knows what words to use to grab our attention and to not let it go until the end.

The ending here is not so good as the rest of the story, which made me give this book one star less than what I originally wanted to give it. Which really disappointed me in a way.

I Give This Book 4 / 5