![]() ![]() ![]() Lots of tall white people in rock band tees. They are both vibrant and modern with an athletic vibe and a well-educated populace. Now, I’ve been to both Oslo and Sydney (including a night of clubbing in King’s Cross) and the two cities have a lot in common. Kensington’s boss isn’t thrilled to have Harry there and wants to shut him out even as Kensington keeps introducing Harry to strange folks in the outback as well as in bars in Sydney’s red light district called King’s Cross. His guide throughout the investigation is an Australian detective named Kensington who is of Aboriginal descent. The book introduces Harry Hole as an Oslo detective sent to Sydney, Australia to assist in the investigation of the murder of a Norwegian woman who was a moderately successful Norwegian TV star. But as I gobbled it up, literarily speaking, one thought kept surfacing: this is a strange way to start a detective series. I was thrilled to read it, as the subsequent books in the series refer to Harry’s investigation of a serial killer in Australia. THE BAT is the first in the series, but was only recently made available in English and for Kindle. ![]() I have read all of the Harry Hole police procedural mysteries by Norwegian author Jo Nesbo, but read them out of order. ![]()
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