The Bat - Harry Hole (Paperback)
Jo Nesbo (author), Don Bartlett (translator)Published: 18/07/2013
Discover the addictive first book in the bestselling Harry Hole series.
'A stunning opening to the series' Sunday Times
Harry is out of his depth.
Detective Harry Hole is meant to keep out of trouble. A young Norwegian girl taking a gap year in Sydney has been murdered, and Harry has been sent to Australia to assist in any way he can.
He's not supposed to get too involved.
When the team unearths a string of unsolved murders and disappearances, nothing will stop Harry from finding out the truth. The hunt for a serial killer is on, but the murderer will talk only to Harry.
He might be the next victim.
Jo Nesbo, Number 1 Sunday Times bestseller, January 2024
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9780099520320
Number of pages: 432
Weight: 299 g
Dimensions: 197 x 127 x 25 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
Harry Hole is fully formed as the difficult, vulnerable personality we have come to know. The evocation of Australia itself has the customary Nesbo expertise...most satisfyingly - we can now see the organic shape that Nesbo always intended his work to take - Independent
An ambitious, fun, exciting and original crime novel - Smålandsposten (Sweden)
The Bat is a truly captivating crime novel - Berliner Morgenpost (Germany)
The Bat is innovative and different, and the pace that Jo Nesbo creates in his debut novel makes you long for more crime novels featuring Harry Hole - Kristeligt Dagblad (Denmark)
Jo Nesbo has written the cleverest debut novel in the crime genre that I've read in a long time - Aftenposten (Norway)
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I have told everyone I know to read it.
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a non stop page turner
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