This is the latest, and an absolutely fabulous, Harry Hole novel. He is not drinking, happily married to Rakel and a successful lecturer at the Police College. He is approaching 50 with his life in pretty good shape. However, a case that involves"Iron dentures and no DNA and half a liter of blood missing" requires him to return to the field. He quickly concludes it is a serial rapist he had once put away, and who had escaped from prison. Taking risks and going against the book, he gets his man. But, there's still a lot of the book left and Nesbo adds, I believe unnecessarily, a late-in-the-story twist. Harry wraps thing up in quite an unexpected and dramatic conclusion. Nesbo is a master at creating tension and does so from the first chapter to the last page. I believe this is the best Harry novel in quite some time.
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