Killing Moon

A Harry Hole Novel, Book 13

By: Jo Nesbo, Seán Kinsella - translator

Narrated by: John Lee

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • This killer will get inside your head. • Brilliant rogue police investigator Harry Hole is back, this time as an outsider assembling his own team to help find a serial killer who is murdering young women in Oslo in the next novel in the internationally best-selling series.

"One of today's most interesting thriller writers." —Lee Child, author of the #1 best-selling Jack Reacher series

THE HUNT IS ON AND THE POLICE ARE RUNNING OUT OF TIME. Two young women are missing, their only connection a party they both attended, hosted by a notorious real-estate magnate. When one of the women is found murdered, the police discover an unusual signature left by the killer, giving them reason to suspect he will strike again.

THEY'RE FACING A KILLER UNLIKE ANY OTHER. And exposing him calls for a detective like no other. But the legendary Harry Hole is gone—fired from the force, drinking himself to oblivion in Los Angeles. It seems that nothing can entice him back to Oslo. Until the woman who saved Harry's life is put in grave danger, and he has no choice but to return to the city that haunts him and track down the murderer.

CATCHING HIM WILL PUSH HARRY TO THE LIMIT. He'll need to bring together a misfit team of former operatives to accomplish what he can't do alone: stop an unstoppable killer. But as the evidence mounts, it becomes clear that there is more to this case than meets the eye...

©2023 Jo Nesbo (P)2023 Random House Audio

Critic reviews

“Readers are privy to the doings of a man calling himself Prim, who emerges as the creepiest villain this side of a Thomas Harris novel . . . Nesbø excels at manipulating this sort of ghoulish material. He can heighten suspense with a single word and wrong-foot the most attentive customer.” —Wall Street Journal

“Harry is back. Part rock star, part melancholic philosopher, he is the coolest, smartest, most complex, least orthodox crime fighter around . . . In plotting this book, Nesbø gives us a heap of misleading clues, mistaken arrests, red herrings and blind alleys. He is a master of misdirection.” —Bookreporter

“Nesbø never releases the heartstrings through an otherwise classic dark police procedural . . . Fans of the series will find this sleuth’s grief and loss powerful and will appreciate how life forces Harry back into the work he does so well. Newcomers to Nesbø’s well-established investigations won’t struggle for context, though.” —New York Journal of Books

Excellent

Kept me engaged.
Narrator was not annoying.
Story had good twists and turns and surprises.

well-written but plot too artificial and

Despite Nesbo’s writing skills and familiar characters, the plot seemed forced and full of gimmicks.

Not my favorite, but entertaining

Harry Hole has been a favorite since 2009. He struggles to solve this complex puzzle and that kept me interested and motivated to complete the book. Perhaps the fact I was trying to read the book while on a trip with a busy, full agenda detracted from my rating……I did not feel the “can’t put it down “ magnet I had felt in other Jo Nesbo thriller novels

So Good It's a Crime

Every new Harry Hole book offers something new. A new insight on the state of killing in Scandinavia and so on. The series has been to Australia, Thailand, the US, random European scenes of war during WWII, and the US. This time around, it offers a chilling series of murders which delves deeper and deeper into a truly disturbing area, even for Harry Hole novels. All I can say is the killer's methods are very original. The most original and terrifying I have ever heard of. Check it out at your own risk.

Shatner

I listen to all Newborn ,Harry Hole books, but this narrator, who I have heard before, sounded like William Shatner. it took me almost halfway through to get over how much the reader annoyed me.

Good

Glad he’s back! I love following the story and I don’t feel like it’s over

Nesbo the genius.

I have listened to all Harry Hole books now. I enjoyed each and everyone, but this one was plain brilliant. I kept looking for the misdirection character, but I totally did not see this coming...GREAT STORY!!!
And John Lee and his fabulous voice was intoxicating as always...he really knows how to pull out the reality of each character presented.
This book deserves extra stars and kudos.
And, was that ending a segue into the next book...?
I hope so!

Loved it!

Another Harry Hole novel! Loved it! And no one can bring them to life better than John Lee! Excellent work by all, as usual! :)

Intriguing multiple suspects tons of twists and turns

Harry’s ongoing struggle with alcohol is legendary and having such s flawed, haunted, and brilliant hero, makes each Harry Hole novel a gripping read

Dark genius, as always

it's Jo Nesbo. so it's darkly brilliant, the epitome of Nordic Noir. The story is so good that the plot becomes secondary. Harry. left despondent and ostensibly working on committing slow suicide after Rakel's death, finds new purpose in the unlikeliest of places -- Los Angeles. Circumstances send him back to Norway to conduct an "under the radar" murder investigation. He assembles a team of misfits, of course, and chaos ensues as only Nesbo can imagine it.

I'll be in the minority here, but I find John Lee's narration overdone in a way that doesn't hold the thread. He rather disgorges the story in staccato spurts, though in a beautiful baritone. I never quite got accustomed to it.

Still, it's Nesbo in fine, grim form, so, of course, it's spectacular.