Harry Hole · Book 3

The Redbreast

by Jo Nesbø

Published
1 January 2000
Pages
448
ISBN-13
9780061133992
Type
novel

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Cover of The Redbreast

About this book

The Redbreast (2000) is the book that made Jo Nesbø an international name, the third Harry Hole novel and, for years, many English-language readers' accidental starting point since the first two books weren't translated until over a decade later. It runs 448 pages.

Its place in Harry Hole

The Redbreast is book 3 in the Harry Hole series. It follows Cockroaches. It is followed by Nemesis. 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…

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