Book description
Harry Hole is in trouble.
'Expertly plotted and structured...relentlessly paced...a compulsive page turner' Independent on Sunday
The police don't want him back...
After the horrors of a case that nearly cost him his life, Harry Hole left Oslo and the police force far behind him. Now he's back, but the…
Why read it?
1 author picked Phantom as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I read a lot of detective/mystery stories, and I write them myself. I had never read Nesbo previously, and this book is the ninth in his Harry Hole series. I was sucked in immediately, though the only backstory I had for the very complex main character was what I was seeing on the pages before me.
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