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“A tour de force. Nesbø has a plot here that is so tightly constructed and compelling that it’s impossible to put the book down. This is a serial killer story, and one with a punch.”
— Globe and Mail (Toronto)
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Fast-and-furious.
— The New York Times Book Review
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The pace is relentless. . . . The plot . . . [is] complex without becoming overheated.
— San Antonio Express-News
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Though there’s plenty of twisty plot, it’s Nesbø’s writing—textured, humane, evocative, moody, cinematic—that keeps this thing rolling forward like a toboggan on a steep slope.
— Minneapolis Star Tribune
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The Redeemer rocks! Jo Nesbø is my new favorite thriller writer and Harry Hole my new hero. This book had my pulse in the red zone from start to finish.
— Michael Connelly
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Full of shocking chance and nuance, unforeseen twists and ice-crystal clear views of Oslo in winter.
— The Wall Street Journal
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A tour de force. . . . So tightly constructed and compelling that it’s impossible to put the book down.
— The Globe and Mail (Canada)
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A treat. . . . Even when you’re positive that the mystery is entirely done and dusted, it invariably turns out that the pragmatic Detective Harry Hole has managed to stay three steps ahead, and there’s more to uncover.
— Time Out
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Nesbø is no ordinary writer. . . . A complex story, impossible to second-guess, which proves that greed, lust and a desire for revenge lurk within the saintliest of folk.
— The Sunday Telegraph
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The search for redemption is on—redemption through violence. The deeply flawed Hole is his familiar self: difficult and disrespectful, brilliant and intuitive. . . . Told in powerful prose, [The Redeemer] never fails to grip.
— Publishers Weekly
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No doubt about it: Nesbø belongs on every crime-fiction fan’s A-list.
— Booklist
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“The killer’s boyhood in the war-torn Balkans gives added
depth to a complex story, impossible to second-guess, which proves that greed,
lust, and a desire for revenge lurk within the saintliest of folk.”
— Daily Telegraph (London)