Harry Hole · Book 1
The Bat
- Published
- 1 January 1997
- Pages
- 369
- ISBN-13
- 9780345807090
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Bat (1997) opens the Harry Hole series and, along with its sequel Cockroaches, sets up the Oslo detective's formative early case abroad -- though English-language readers didn't get it until a 2012 translation, more than a decade after The Redbreast made Jo Nesbø internationally famous. It runs 369 pages.
Its place in Harry Hole
The Bat is book 1 in the Harry Hole series. It is followed by Cockroaches. 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 9781846551451
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780345807090