Jo Nesbø on DeBaser: reviews, quotes, and key works

Jo Nesbø

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The Profile

Jo Nesbø is a Norwegian author best known for the Harry Hole crime novels, as well as the Doctor Proctor children’s series and the Hogarth Shakespeare retelling Macbeth.

Creator of the Harry Hole series and author of The Snowman; also a musician associated with the band Di Derre.

A single review digs into La casa delle tenebre (The Night House), noting a smooth, bestseller-style prose but criticizing clichéd characters and a weak ending. The middle section is praised, while opening and closing chapters disappoint. Overall sentiment is mixed, with some credit for plot originality.

Notable Quotes

❝ Nesbø's novel—which is divided, both in structure and in taste, into three major chapters—starts off in the worst possible way, decidedly improving in the middle of the work only to plummet sharply in the end.