Harry Hole · Book 2
Cockroaches
- Published
- 1 January 1998
- Pages
- 367
- ISBN-13
- 9780345807151
- Type
- novel

About this book
Cockroaches (1998) is the second Harry Hole novel, set during Harry's formative case in Thailand, though it wasn't translated into English until 2013 -- so many readers encountered it as a belated "prequel" after already reading later books. It runs 367 pages.
Its place in Harry Hole
Cockroaches is book 2 in the Harry Hole series. It follows The Bat. It is followed by The Redbreast. See the full Harry Hole reading order.
Harry Hole is an Oslo homicide detective whose brilliance as an investigator is matched only by his talent for wrecking everything around him — alcoholism, dead partners, burned bridges with his own police force — across Jo Nesbø's brutal, internationally bestselling Nordic noir series. Each book is a genuine whodunit built around an elaborate, often serial-killer-driven plot, but the real engine is Harry himself: a man who solves cases through obsession and self-destruction in roughly equal measure, and whose…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780345807168
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780345807151