The Redbreast by Jo NesbøMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Not only Harry Hole was running around in circles trying to figure this one out. Frustrating, confusing and yet, at the end, startling clear. All the clues were scattered throughout--but that scattering made it terribly hard to pull the characters together. Love a mystery that is a mystery and makes you think but that at the end makes perfect sense. Don't think of Scandinavia often, which is why this book is so interesting. The way Norway and Norwegians handled Nazi occupation both during and after the war is fascinating and totally new to me.
Harry Hole is Dirty Harry and Bosch mixed together. His appearance in my mind never fits the flashes of description in the book so it is always a shock to return to the Scandinavian blond/blue-eyed ness of him or his size but it is pleasant, too. It makes the book that much more foreign to my experience in real life. I like him though he can be rather irritating and smug at times but he is so vulnerable at othertimes, which also is a jolt when it appears. Jo Nesbo is a one of a kind writer and refreshing.
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