(2002)Another fine book about a dysfunctional Norwegian police detective. This time he is trying to officially solve one of a series of bank robberies carried out by the same man, only this time a woman teller was shot and killed. Turns out it was planned as revenge of a husband who found out she was unfaithful with his brother a known robber. Unofficially he is trying to find out why his mistress killed herself. It also was done as revenge against him and others in her mixed up life as an elaborate plan to make it look like he had killed her instead. The only thing that is hard to plow thru this book is all of the Norwegian place and street names, very confusing. Some translation quirks as well. Still very good.(Amazon description):Gripping and surprising, Nemesis is a nail-biting thriller from one of the biggest stars in crime fiction.Grainy closed-circuit television footage shows a man walking into an Oslo bank and putting a gun to a cashier's head. He tells the young woman to count to twenty-five. When the robber doesn't get his money in time, the cashier is executed, and two million Norwegian kroner disappear without a trace. Police Detective Harry Hole is assigned to the case.While Hole's girlfriend is away in Russia, an old flame decides to get in touch. Former girlfriend and struggling artist Anna Bethsen invites Hole to dinner, and he can't resist a visit. But the evening ends in an all too familiar way as Hole awakens with a thundering headache, a missing cell phone, and no memory of the past twelve hours. That same morning, Anna is found shot dead in her bed. Hole begins to receive threatening e-mails. Is someone trying to frame him for this unexplained death? Meanwhile, the bank robberies continue with unparalleled savagery.As the death toll continues to mount, Hole becomes a prime suspect in a criminal investigation led by his longtime adversary Tom Waaler and Waaler's vigilante police force. Racing from the cool, autumnal streets of Oslo to the steaming villages of Brazil, Hole is determined to absolve himself of suspicion by uncovering all the information needed to crack both cases. But the ever-threatening Waaler is not finished with his old archenemy quite yet.

I have a new favourite fictional detective: Harry Hole of the Oslo Police. ( )

Začal podzim. V jedné bankovní pobočce v centru Osla dostává vedoucí pětadvacet vteřin na to, aby otevřel bankomat, vybral z něj peníze a naházel je do připravené kabely. Limit o šest vteřin překročí. Bankovní lupič ukáže do bezpečnostní kamery šest prstů, zastřelí jednu ze zaměstnankyň a beze stopy se vytratí. Případ dostává na starost Harry Hole, jeden z nejlepších kriminalistů osloské policie, ale zároveň velmi svérázný chlapík, osamělý vlk s neuspořádaným osobním životem a alkoholik, kterému dělá problémy podvolit se jakékoli autoritě. Při vyšetřování mu sekunduje velmi zdatná policejní posila Beáta Lonnová, dcera známého zastřeleného kriminalisty, která zaujala místo Harryho zavražděné kolegyně Ellen Gjeltenové. Krátce po zahájení vyšetřování je ve svém bytě nalezena Harryho dávná láska Anna Bethsenová. Vše nasvědčuje tomu, že spáchala sebevraždu v ten večer, kdy u ní byl Harry na večeři. Téměř vše. Jenže Harry má naprosté "okno" a z návštěvy si nic nepamatuje. Co se vlastně v Annině bytě odehrálo? Když vyšetřování uvízne na mrtvém bodě, rozhodne se Harry využít pomoci Raskola, původem rumunského Roma, Annina příbuzného a legendárního bankovního lupiče, který se sám přihlásil policii a nechal se uvěznit. I z vězení však dokáže tahat za potřebné nitky. Harry uzavře s Raskolem dohodu: Raskol mu pomůže najít bankovního lupiče a Harry oplátkou za to odhalí Annina vraha. Kolotoč událostí se rozbíhá. A to podzim teprve začal.

Pretty good mystery. kind of gritty though. Harry Hole is a good protagonist. ( )

323/55 ( )