The Redbreast

<p><strong>An elegant and complex thriller. . . . Harrowingly beautiful. --<em>New York Times Book Review</em></strong></p><p><strong>Hugely impressive--ambitious in scope and skilled in execution. --<em>Los Angeles Times</em></strong></p><p><strong>Ranks with the best of current American crime fiction.</strong>--<strong><em>Washington Post</em></strong></p><p><strong>Jo Nesb�� the <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author of <em>The Snowman</em> has solidified his spot as one of the most exciting Scandinavian thriller writers in the crime fiction business. <em>The Redbreast </em>is the third installment in Nesb��'s tough-as-nails series featuring Oslo police detective Harry Hole. </strong></p><p>Detective Harry Hole embarrassed the force and for his sins he's been reassigned to mundane surveillance tasks. But while monitoring neo-Nazi activities in Oslo Hole is inadvertently drawn into a mystery with deep roots in Norway's dark past--when members of the nation's government willingly collaborated with Nazi Germany. </p><p>More than sixty years later this black mark won't wash away and disgraced old soldiers who once survived a brutal Russian winter are being murdered one by one. Now with only a stained and guilty conscience to guide him an angry alcoholic error-prone policeman must make his way safely past the traps and mirrors of a twisted criminal mind. For a hideous conspiracy is rapidly taking shape around Hole--and Norway's darkest hour may still be to come.</p>