“Had the police started arresting street dealers again?” Harry thinks, and it’s a wonderful, atmospheric set up for the mystery to follow.
Harry Hole returns to Oslo after three years, and we are immediately plunged into a seamy neighbourhood, where Harry notices a drug dealing set up that had been used in the 80s and 90s, but has since been dropped. In contrast to the excerpt from The Leopardthat gave me nightmares after Nesbo read it at IFOA, this chapter from a rat’s POV just made me go “meh.”įortunately, the story picks up right after. A chapter narrated by a rat? Worse, this rat narrates a few other chapters in the novel. Ever.) but I’ve never read a Harry Hole novel until Phantom. And holy hell, what a book to start with!įirst, I have to admit, the beginning didn’t grab me. WTF Jo Nesbo?! That was all I could think as I finished Phantom, the ninth and latest book in the Harry Hole series (seventh to be translated into English).Ĭonfession: I’ve had an author crush on Jo Nesbo ever since I saw him read at the International Festival of Authors (Most.
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