Review: Nemesis

Nemesis by Jo Nesbø
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Harry is staying sober! Harry loves Rackel and Oleg and is anxious for their return from Russia. Harry is worried--he went, despite misgivings, to have dinner with a former girlfriend, Anna. Harry seems to have a hangover as he arrives at work, but he does not remember drinking or getting home. Harry discovers that Anna is dead--suicide, it would seem--but, though he tells no one, he is worried because Harry was there on the night she died!

But, it's okay--the department is accepting the death as a suicide and is focusing on the apprehension of bank robbers who seem to be becoming serial robbers. What is worse, in the most recent robbery the leader has killed the woman who they entrusted to keep time as they carried out the heist. She was a bank employee but was she an inside connection that had to be eliminated or just a poor unfortunate at the right place but at the wrong time?

As usual, Jo Nesbo does not make Harry or the reader's life easy, although I figured out who killed Anna and why and who wanted the poor bank lady dead. Pretty soon in the 400+ pages of the book, maybe a quarter of the way through. I didn't know how everything connected at all nor who the other players were in the cases. For example, who was trying to frame Harry and why or how Waaler fit into it all.

Speaking of whom, somebody has got to take care of Waaler--looks like the next book is going to address the issue. So, though I usually read books in between books in a series so as not to become too tired of characters, especially when each book is a tome, I'm going right into the next Harry Hole!

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