Knife (novel)
| File:Kniv (Jo Nesbø).png
Cover of first edition (Aschehoug)
|
|
| Author | Jo Nesbø |
|---|---|
| Original title | Kniv |
| Translator | Neil Smith |
| Country | Norway |
| Language | Norwegian |
| Series | Harry Hole (#12) |
| Genre | Crime fiction |
| Publisher | Aschehoug |
|
Publication date
|
6 June 2019 |
|
Published in English
|
9 July 2019 |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 519 |
| ISBN | 978-82-03-36418-1 (hardcover) |
| OCLC | 1117712320 |
| 839.823/8 | |
| LC Class | PT8951.24.E83 K55 2019 |
| Preceded by | The Thirst |
Knife (Norwegian: Kniv , 2019) is a crime novel by Norwegian writer Jo Nesbø, the twelfth in the Harry Hole series.[1][2][3] The book is set in Oslo.
Contents
Plot
Harry Hole started drinking again and was kicked out of his home by his wife Rakel. Recently, only minor cases have been entrusted to him, despite the fact that his investigative skills are well known at the anti-crime in Oslo. Everything changes when one morning he wakes up covered in blood without remembering what happened the previous evening and, a short time later, he discovers that a murder had taken place that night.
Reception
Tom Nolan of Wall Street Journal praised Knife's "memorable, well-drawn" character and called it "arguably the best entry yet" in the Harry Hole series, writing, "The moral conundrums in "Knife" are Dostoevskian, the surprises are breathtaking, the one-liners are amusing and the suspense is unrelenting."[4]
Publishers Weekly criticized the novel for having an "enormous number of characters, backstories, subplots, and themes" but nonetheless praised its "well-orchestrated" ending.[5]
Rob Merrill of the Associated Press praised the novel's pacing but felt part of its quality was lost in the English translation.[6]
References
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
External links
<templatestyles src="Asbox/styles.css"></templatestyles>
 |
This article about a crime novel of the 2010s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. See guidelines for writing about novels. Further suggestions might be found on the article's talk page. |
- Articles with short description
- Pages with broken file links
- Articles containing Norwegian Bokmål-language text
- Articles containing Norwegian-language text
- Official website not in Wikidata
- Harry Hole (novel series)
- Norwegian crime novels
- 2019 novels
- Aschehoug books
- 21st-century Norwegian novels
- 2010s crime novel stubs
.png){kind=link}