Nemesis (formerly known as The House of Pain)

Nemesis (formerly known as The House of Pain)

by JoNesbo (Author)

Synopsis

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, "The House of Pain" is the new thriller by the one of the biggest stars of Scandinavian crime fiction.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 560
Edition: Airports/Export Edition
Publisher: Harvill Secker
Published: 06 Mar 2008

ISBN 10: 1846550394
ISBN 13: 9781846550393

Author Bio
Jo Nesbo, musician, economist and author of the best-selling series featuring Detective Harry Hole, has won many prizes for his novels, including the Glass Key, the Riverton Prize and the Norwegian Bookclub prize for best ever Norwegian crime novel. His first novel to be published in English was The Devil's Star and the second, The Redbreast, was shortlisted for the CWA Duncan Lawrie International Dagger. He lives in Oslo.