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Knife

Knife

From the Sunday Times No.1 bestselling king of gripping twists

Summary

**THE No.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**
**A THE TIMES TOP 10 CRIME BOOK OF THE DECADE**

HARRY HOLE'S DEADLIEST ENEMY IS BACK... AND OUT FOR BLOOD

Harry is in a bad place: Rakel has left him, he's working cold cases and notorious murderer Svein Finne is back on the streets.

THE FIRST KILLER HARRY PUT BEHIND BARS IS OUT TO GET HIM.

Harry is responsible for the many years Finne spent in prison but now he's free and ready to pick up where he left off.

A MAN LIKE HARRY BETTER WATCH HIS BACK.

When Harry wakes up with blood on his hands, and no memory of what he did the night before, he knows everything is only going to get worse...

'This is the king of Norwegian crime on top form' Observer

*JO NESBO HAS SOLD OVER 55 MILLION BOOKS WORLDWIDE*

The explosive new Harry Hole thriller Killing Moon is out now!

Jo Nesbo was a Sunday Times number one bestseller with Macbeth on 20/09/2018

Reviews

  • Knife shows Nesbo back on form… This is a police procedural that breaks the bounds of the format with abandon… Nesbo manhandles the reader into contented…submission
    Barry Foreshaw, Financial Times

About the author

Jo Nesbo

Jo Nesbo is one of the world's bestselling crime writers. When commissioned to write a memoir about life on the road with his band, Di Derre, he instead came up with the plot for his first Harry Hole crime novel, The Bat. His books The Leopard, Phantom, Police, The Son, The Thirst, Macbeth and Knife have all since topped the Sunday Times charts. He's an international number one bestseller and his books are published in 50 languages, selling over 60 million copies around the world.
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