01956cam a2200325 4500 139309121 TxAuBib 20130611120000.0 130117|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2012047015 9780307595850 0307595854 TxAuBib Nesbo, Jo, 1960- Frelseren English. The Redeemer / Jo Nesb ; translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett. First United States Edition. 397 pages ; 25 cm. Harry Hole series "This is a Borzoi book.". "Christmas shoppers stop to hear a Salvation Army concert on a crowded Oslo street. A gunshot cuts through the music and the bitter cold: one of the singers falls dead, shot in the head at point-blank range. Harry Hole--the Oslo Police Department's best investigator and worst civil servant--has little to work with: no suspect, no weapon, and no motive. But Harry's troubles will multiply. As the search closes in, the killer becomes increasingly desperate, and Harry's chase takes him to the most forbidden corners of the former Yugoslavia. Yet it's when he returns to Oslo that he encounters true darkness: among the homeless junkies and Salvationists, eagerly awaiting a savior to deliver them from misery--whether he brings new life or immediate death. With its shrewdly vertiginous narrative, acid-etched characters, and white-hot pace, The Redeemer is resounding proof of Jo Nesb's standing as one of the best crime writers of our time"--Jacket. 20130611. Hole, Harry (Fictitious character) Fiction. Police Norway Oslo Fiction. Murder for hire Norway Oslo Fiction. Oslo (Norway) Fiction. Mystery fiction. Bartlett, Don, translator. Harry Hole series.