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Nemesis

Nesbø, Jo 1960- (Author).

Summary: "Grainy CCTV footage shows a man walking into a bank and putting a gun to a cashier's head. He tells her to count to twenty-five. When he doesn't get his money in time, she is executed. Detective Harry Hole is assigned to the case. While Harry's girlfriend is away in Russia, an old flame gets in touch. He goes to dinner at her house and wakes up at home with no memory of the past twelve hours. The same morning the girl is found shot dead in her bed. Harry begins to receive threatening e-mails. Is someone trying to frame him for this unexplained death? Meanwhile the bank robberies continue with unparalleled savagery. Gripping and surprising, Nemesis is the new thriller by one of the biggest stars of Scandinavian crime fiction."--Inside jacket.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780307355744 (hc)
  • ISBN: 9780061655517 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 0307355748
  • ISBN: 9780307355751
  • ISBN: 9780307355744
  • Physical Description: print
    474 p. : map ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: [Toronto] : Random House Canada, c2008.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Translation of: "Sorgenfri".
Target Audience Note:
Adult
Subject: Police -- Norway -- Fiction
Bank robberies -- Fiction
Violent crimes -- Fiction
Norwegian fiction -- Translations into English
Genre: Mystery fiction.
Suspense fiction.
Suspense fiction.
Crime thrillers.
Norwegian fiction.

Available copies

  • 3 of 3 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Terrace Public Library.

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Summary: "Grainy CCTV footage shows a man walking into a bank and putting a gun to a cashier's head. He tells her to count to twenty-five. When he doesn't get his money in time, she is executed. Detective Harry Hole is assigned to the case. While Harry's girlfriend is away in Russia, an old flame gets in touch. He goes to dinner at her house and wakes up at home with no memory of the past twelve hours. The same morning the girl is found shot dead in her bed. Harry begins to receive threatening e-mails. Is someone trying to frame him for this unexplained death? Meanwhile the bank robberies continue with unparalleled savagery. Gripping and surprising, Nemesis is the new thriller by one of the biggest stars of Scandinavian crime fiction."--Inside jacket.

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