Jo Nesbø

Following from Jo Nesbø's electrifying international best-sellers The Snowman and The Leopard, now comes Phantom, which plunges the brilliant, deeply troubled, now former police officer Harry Hole into a full-tilt investigation on which his own tenuous future will come to depend.When Harry left Oslo again for Hong Kong—fleeing the traumas of life as a cop—he thought he was there for good. But then the unthinkable happened. The son of the woman he loved, lost, and still loves is arrested for murder: Oleg, the boy Harry helped raise but couldn't help deserting when he fled. Harry has come back to prove that Oleg is not a killer. Barred from rejoining the police force, he sets out on a solitary, increasingly dangerous investigation that takes him deep into the world of the most virulent drug to ever hit the streets of Oslo (and the careers of some of the city's highest officials), and into the maze of his own past, where he will find the wrenching truth that finally matters to Oleg, and to himself.

When a police officer is found murdered at the scene of an old unsolved murder case that he was involved in investigating, it can hardly be a coincidence. When the same thing happens to two other officers in a matter of months the pattern is as clear as it is terrifying. None of the old cases were ever solved. The killings are extremely brutal and the police have no leads. What’s more, they’re missing their best investigator. At the same time, a severely wounded man is in a coma and kept alive at a hospital in Oslo. The police guard the room and the identity of the patient is kept secret. Once again Jo Nesbø delivers a devilishly clever story about the scope of human evil; a cat-and-mouse game that involves not only the victims and the police, but also the reader.

The Redbreast is a fabulous introduction to Nesbø’s tough-as-nails series protagonist, Oslo police detective Harry Hole. A brilliant and epic novel, breathtaking in its scope and design—winner of The Glass Key for best Nordic crime novel and selected as the best Norwegian crime novel ever written by members of Norway’s book clubs—The Redbreast is a chilling tale of murder and betrayal that ranges from the battlefields of World War Two to the streets of modern-day Oslo. Follow Hole as he races to stop a killer and disarm a ticking time-bomb from his nation’s shadowy past. Vogue magazine says that “nobody can delve into the dark, twisted mind of a murderer better than a Scandinavian thriller writer”…and nobody does it better than Jo Nesbø! James Patterson fans should also take note.

In this electrifying new addition to Jo Nesbø’s internationally acclaimed series, Harry Hole must confront the darkest demons in his city—and in himself. Inspector Harry Hole has retreated to Hong Kong, escaping the trauma of his last case in squalid opium dens, when two young women are found dead in Oslo, both drowned in their own blood. Media coverage quickly reaches a fever pitch. There are no clues, the police investigation is stalled, and Harry—the one man who might be able to help—can’t be found. After he returns to Oslo, the killer strikes again, Harry’s instincts take over, and nothing can keep him from the investigation, though there is little to go on. Worse, he will soon come to understand that he is dealing with a psychopath who will put him to the test, both professionally and personally, as never before.

Detective Harry Hole must use his maverick methods once again as he investigates a slew of brutal bank robberies and the suspicious suicide of a female artist in this clever and harrowing installment in the Harry Hole series from the author of The Snowman—soon to be a major motion picture, starring Michael Fassbender, Rebecca Ferguson, and J. K. Simmons. Captured on closed-circuit television: A man walks into an Oslo bank, puts a gun to a cashier's head, and tells her to count to twenty-five. When he doesn't get his money fast enough, he pulls the trigger. The young woman dies—and two million Norwegian kroner disappear without a trace. After a drunken evening with former girlfriend Anna Bethsen, Police Detective Harry Hole wakes up at home with a headache, no cell phone, and no memory of the past twelve hours. The same day, Anna is found shot dead in her bedroom, making Hole a prime suspect in the investigation led by his hated adversary, Tom Waaler. Meanwhile, the bank robberies continue with unparalleled savagery, sending rogue detective Hole from the streets of Oslo to steaming Brazil in a race to close two cases and clear his name. But Waaler isn't finished with his longtime nemesis quite yet.

Oslo in November. The first snow of the season has fallen. A boy named Jonas wakes in the night to find his mother gone. Out his window, in the cold moonlight, he sees the snowman that inexplicably appeared in the yard earlier in the day. Around its neck is his mother's pink scarf. Hole suspects a link between a menacing letter he's received and the disappearance of Jonas's mother - and of perhaps a dozen other women, all of whom went missing on the day of a first snowfall. As his investigation deepens, something else emerges: he is becoming a pawn in an increasingly terrifying game whose rules are devised - and constantly revised - by the killer.

The author of the best-selling Harry Hole series now gives us an electrifying stand-alone novel set inside Oslo's maze of especially venal, high-level corruption. Sonny Lofthus is a strangely charismatic and complacent young man. Sonny's been in prison for a dozen years, nearly half his life. The inmates who seek out his uncanny abilities to soothe leave his cell feeling absolved. They don t know or care that Sonny has a serious heroin habit or where or how he gets his uninterrupted supply of the drug. Or that he's serving time for other peoples crimes. Sonny took the first steps toward addiction when his father took his own life rather than face exposure as a corrupt cop. Now Sonny is the seemingly malleable center of a whole infrastructure of corruption: prison staff, police, lawyers, a desperate priest all of them focused on keeping him high and in jail. And all of them under the thumb of the Twin, Oslo's crime overlord. As long as Sonny gets his dope, he's happy to play the criminal and the prison's in-house savior. But when he learns a stunning, long-hidden secret concerning his father, he makes a brilliantly executed escape from prison and from the person he d let himself become and begins hunting down those responsible for the crimes against him . . . The darkly looming question is: Who will get to him first the criminals or the cops?

Harry Hole returns in the eleventh installment of the author's best-selling, electrifying crime fiction series—published in 48 languages, more than 30 million copies sold worldwide.In Police—the last novel featuring Jo Nesbø's hard-bitten, maverick Oslo detective—a killer wreaking revenge on the police had Harry Hole fighting for the safety of the people closest to him. Now, in The Thirst, the story continues as Harry is inextricably drawn back into the Oslo police force. A serial murderer has begun targeting Tinder daters—a murderer whose MO reignites Harry's hunt for a nemesis of his past.

From the internationally best-selling author, a twisted, multi-layered spin on the classic horror novel In the wake of his parents' tragic deaths in a house fire, fourteen-year-old Richard Elauved has been sent to live with his aunt and uncle in the remote, insular town of Ballantyne. Richard quickly earns a reputation as an outcast, and when a classmate named Tom goes missing, everyone suspects the new, angry boy is responsible for his disappearance. No one believes him when he says the telephone booth out by the edge of the woods sucked Tom into the receiver like something out of a horror movie. No one, that is, except Karen, a beguiling fellow outsider who encourages Richard to pursue clues the police refuse to investigate. He traces the number that Tom prank called from the phone booth to an abandoned house in the Black Mirror Wood. There he catches a glimpse of a terrifying face in the window. And then the voices begin to whisper in his ear . . . You know who I am. She's going to burn. The one you love is going to burn. There's not a thing you can do about it. When another classmate disappears, Richard must find a way to prove his innocence--and preserve his sanity--as he grapples with the dark magic that is possessing Ballantyne and pursuing his destruction. Then again, Richard may not be the most reliable narrator of his own story . . .

Roger Brown is a corporate headhunter, and he’s a master of his profession. But one career simply can’t support his luxurious lifestyle and his wife’s fledgling art gallery. At an art opening one night he meets Clas Greve, who is not only the perfect candidate for a major CEO job, but also, perhaps, the answer to his financial Greve just so happens to mention that he owns a priceless Peter Paul Rubens painting that’s been lost since World War II—and Roger Brown just so happens to dabble in art theft. But when he breaks into Greve’s apartment, he finds more than just the painting. And Clas Greve may turn out to be the worst thing that’s ever happened to Roger Brown.

Politimannen Harry Hole er i Sydney for å bistå australsk politi i etterforskningen av drapet på en ung norsk kvinne. På sin vei gjennom lysskye miljøer treffer han horer og halliker, transer, klovner og pushere. Og noen aboriginer, Australias urinnvånere. Harry Hole har reist så langt vekk fra Norge som det er mulig å komme. Saken er komplisert, og i den blinde nattejakten på morderen har han bare svake ekko å navigere etter. «Flaggermusmannen» er den første boken om Harry Hole, og den ga forfatteren både Rivertonprisen og Glassnøkkelen for årets beste skandinaviske kriminalroman.

A young woman is murdered in her Oslo flat. One finger has been severed from her left hand, and behind her eyelid is secreted a tiny red diamond in the shape of a five-pointed star - a pentagram, the devil's star. Detective Harry Hole is assigned to the case with his long-time adversary Tom Waaler and initially wants no part in it. But Harry is already on notice to quit the force and is left with little alternative but to drag himself out of his alcoholic stupor and get to work. A wave of similar murders is on the horizon. An emerging pattern suggests that Oslo has a serial killer on its hands, and the five-pointed devil's star is key to solving the riddle.

Den korrupte politimesteren som har styrt industribyen ned i en hengemyr av korrupsjon, kriminalitet og kaos, er endelig død. Med dette er folkets håp tent, og maktkampen i gang. Førstebetjentene Macbeth og Duff, tidligere bestevenner fra barnehjemmet de vokste opp på, har begge markert seg i kampen mot byens to rivaliserende narkotikabander. Nå slåss de om samme høyere stilling i politiet. Imens legger Lady, byens mektige kasinoeier, ambisiøse og morderiske planer for seg og elskeren sin, Macbeth.

Inspector Harry Hole of the Oslo Crime Squad is dispatched to Sydney to observe a murder case. Harry is free to offer assistance, but he has firm instructions to stay out of trouble. The victim is a twenty-three year old Norwegian woman who is a minor celebrity back home. Never one to sit on the sidelines, Harry befriends one of the lead detectives, and one of the witnesses, as he is drawn deeper into the case. Together, they discover that this is only the latest in a string of unsolved murders, and the pattern points toward a psychopath working his way across the country. As they circle closer and closer to the killer, Harry begins to fear that no one is safe, least of all those investigating the case.

A 14-year old girl is raped at one of the Salvation Army summer camps. Twelve years later, at a Christmas concert in a square in Oslo, a Salvation Army soldier is executed by a man in the crowd. A press photographer has caught a suspect on one of the photos of the concert. Beate Lønn, the identification expert, is confused by how the face can change from one photo to the next. Inspector Harry Hole’s search for the faceless man takes place on the seamy side of the city, among those who seek eternal – or just momentary – redemption. And the gunman has not yet completed his mission. HARRY HOLE #6.

Als een Duitse toerist op een Grieks eiland spoorloos verdwijnt, wordt de hulp ingeroepen van De Jaloezieman, een inspecteur die gespecialiseerd is in het oplossen van misdaden waarbij jaloezie het hoofdmotief lijkt te zijn. Jo Nesbø heeft met De Jaloezieman een zinderend geschenk geschreven. Vanwege het verschuiven van de Boekenweek naar de zomer is besloten om de uitgifte van het Zomerlezengeschenk te verplaatsen naar 1 t/m 10 november, de start van de cadeauperiode. Dit onder het motto ‘koop een boek, krijg een boek’.

In many ways, the brothers Carl and Roy Opgard have succeeded in life. Or at least they’ve had as much success as is possible in a small town like Os where they've had to kill their way to the top. Carl manages the area’s swanky spa hotel, while Roy has made ambitious plans for an amusement park complete with a roller coaster. The only way is up for the two brothers. Unless the local sheriff can bring them down. The sheriff believes he has new evidence that will prove the brothers involvement in several past murders, but Carl and Roy Opgard are used to covering their tracks, and they're not afraid to get their hands dirty. The high body count of Os is about to get higher. Blood Ties is a grandiose and explosive suspense novel about loyalty, family ties, consuming love, and the fight against powerful forces. It will transport you to a community in crisis and tell the story of two brothers on the verge of losing all that they’ve fought for.

Dette er den andre boka om Harry Hole.

„Nu l-am putut lăsa din mână. Original și plin de suspans." – Stephen King „Unul dintre cele mai bune thrillere ale anului 2020" – Kirkus Reviews Doi frați. Un orășel de munte. Secrete adânc îngropate. Roy n-a părăsit niciodată orășelul pașnic de munte unde a crescut, spre deosebire de Carl, fratele său mai mic, care a fost nerăbdător să plece și să lase în urmă trecutul dureros. Ca toată lumea, și Roy a crezut că fratele lui a plecat pentru totdeauna. Dar Carl are planuri mari pentru orașul său natal. Iar atunci când se întoarce împreună cu soția lui misterioasă și o idee strălucită de afaceri, tensiuni mocnite și rivalități vechi tulbură liniștea locului. Roy își dă seama că se simte în mod inexplicabil atras de Shannon, soția lui Carl, atracție care va avea consecințe devastatoare. În scurt timp, ceea ce părea o întoarcere acasă triumfală se va transforma într-un șir de evenimente nefaste, care amenință să distrugă tot ce prețuiește Roy, pe măsură ce secrete de familie de mult îngropate încep să iasă la iveală… „În Regatul găsești toate tensiunile întunecate și violente dintre frați pe care le-ai aștepta de la acest maestru al thrillerului nordic. De asemenea, romanul lui Nesbø vorbește despre iluziile pierdute ale unei familii, într-o impresionantă construcție narativă." - Kirkus Reviews „Ritmul poveștii crește în intensitate până când Roy, unul dintre protagoniști, este înghițit în vârtejul propriei vieți." - The New York Times Book Review „Este uimitor felul în care atmosfera apăsătoare se insinuează în fiecare pagină." - Library Journal „Fascinant… Una dintre piesele de referință ale genului crime." - Washington Post

Oslo in November. The first snow of the season has fallen. A boy named Jonas wakes in the night to find his mother gone. Out his window, in the cold moonlight, he sees the snowman that inexplicably appeared in the yard earlier in the day. Around its neck is his mother's pink scarf. Hole suspects a link between a menacing letter he's received and the disappearance of Jonas's mother - and of perhaps a dozen other women, all of whom went missing on the day of a first snowfall. As his investigation deepens, something else emerges: he is becoming a pawn in an increasingly terrifying game whose rules are devised - and constantly revised - by the killer.

A veritable crime lover’s delight from a true master of mystery and suspense. Experience the #1 New York Times best-selling author as never before in this dark and thrilling short story collection that takes us on a journey of twisted minds and vengeful hearts. Jo Nesbø is known the world over as a consummate mystery/thriller writer. Famed for his deft characterization, hair-raising suspense and shocking twists, Nesbø’s dexterity with the dark corners of the human heart is on full display in these inventive and enthralling stories. A detective with a nose for jealousy is on the trail of a man suspected of murdering his twin; a bereaved father must decide whether vengeance has a place in the new world order after a pandemic brings about the collapse of society; a garbage man fresh off a bender tries to piece together what happened the night before; a hired assassin matches wits against his greatest adversary in a dangerous game for survival; and an instantly electric connection between passengers on a flight to London may spell romance, or something more sinister. With Nesbø’s characteristic gift for outstanding atmosphere and gut-wrenching revelations, The Jealousy Man confirms that he is at the peak of his abilities.

Doctor Proctor is an ageing inventor just waiting for his big break. When he teams up with Lise and her peculiar friend Nilli in making the world's most powerful fart powder, it seems his dream may be coming true. But the ruthless twins Truls and Trym Thrane are lurking in the background just waiting to spoil their plans.

Harry Hole a réintégré la police criminelle d’Oslo, mais il doit se contenter des cold cases alors qu’il rêve de remettre sous les verrous Svein Finne, ce violeur en série qu’il avait arrêté il y a une dizaine d’années et qui vient d’être libéré. Outrepassant les ordres de sa supérieure hiérarchique, Harry traque cet homme qui l’obsède. Mais un matin, après une soirée bien trop arrosée, Harry se réveille sans le moindre souvenir de la veille, les mains couvertes du sang d’un autre. C’est le début d’une interminable descente aux enfers : il reste toujours quelque chose à perdre, même quand on croit avoir tout perdu.

The Fart Powder was such a successful invention that Doctor Proctor couldn't stop there. Next up: a Time-travel Bath Bomb. Throw the Bath Bomb in the tub, lather up and imagine where you'd like to visit. The battle of Waterloo? No problem. The French Revolution? Let's go! Doctor Proctor has plans for this new invention. Years ago he lost his true love, Juliette Margarine, and now he wants to change the past and win her back. But when his plan goes awry, it's up to Nilly and LIsa to travel in time and save the day. Full of humour and witty dialogue, Jo Nesbø creates wonderfully weird characters and lets his imagination run wild in his Doctor Proctor series. A must read for fans of David Walliams and Roald Dahl.

The Fart Powder was such a successful invention that Doctor Proctor, Nilly, and Lisa couldn’t stop there. Next up: a time-travelling bathtub. You just hop in, lather up the Time Soap, and wish for where you’d like to go. Doctor Proctor has plans for this new invention. You see, he lost his true love years ago, when Juliette Margarine married an evil count. The good Doctor has never quite gotten over this, and he's going back to change it. But when things go wrong, it's up to Nilly and Lisa to travel back in time to right all wrongs and reunite the two lovebirds. Nothing is quite so simple in a Jo Nesbo book. Enter a herd of hippos, a scheming assistant, and Time Soap that keeps going awry, sending Nilly and Lisa to the storming of the Bastille! Fortunately, as in every Jo Nesbo book, the Fart Powder solves everything.

En politisk skandal hotar när Norges ambassadör i Thailand hittas mördad på ett motellrum. Att statsministerns nära vän har foton på nakna småpojkar i sin portfölj får inte komma till allmän kännedom. På UD i Oslo vill man snabbt tysta ner mordet och i samråd med polisen skickas Harry Hole till Bangkok för att på ett diskret sätt hitta den skyldige. Väl på plats i den myllrande storstaden kämpar Harry för att vänja sig vid hettan, trafiken och ett liv utan alkohol. För varje dag klarnar mystiken kring mordet allt mer det är något oroväckande som pågår i den norska kolonin i landet. Ljusskygga personer vill hindra att sanningen ska komma fram och Harry förstår att han måste vara allt annat än diplomatisk för att lösa fallet

A 14-year old girl is raped at one of the Salvation Army summer camps. Twelve years later, at a Christmas concert in a square in Oslo, a Salvation Army soldier is executed by a man in the crowd. A press photographer has caught a suspect on one of the photos of the concert. Beate Lønn, the identification expert, is confused by how the face can change from one photo to the next. Inspector Harry Hole’s search for the faceless man takes place on the seamy side of the city, among those who seek eternal – or just momentary – redemption. And the gunman has not yet completed his mission.

To kvinner er funnet drept i Oslo, begge druknet i sitt eget blod og med stikksår i munnen. Politiet står uten spor og beslutter seg for å finne etterforsker Harry Hole. Han har flyktet fra landet og befinner seg i et herberge i Hong Kong, der han doper seg mens han gjemmer seg for kreditorer. Lokkemiddelet for å få Hole til å komme hjem er at gjelden hans vil bli slettet. Og at faren ligger for døden. Drapssakene har han mindre interesse for. Inntil noe skjer. Panserhjerte er den åttende i rekken av Nesbøs prisbelønte bøker om politietterforsker Harry Hole – hittil solgt i over en og en halv million eksemplarer bare i Norge og utgitt i 37 land

W domu publicznym w stolicy Tajlandii znaleziono ciało zamordowanego norweskiego ambasadora. W Oslo pospiesznie tworzony jest plan uniknięcia skandalu. Policjant Harry Hole wsiada do samolotu skacowany, z zastrzykami witaminy B12 w walizce, i wkrótce zaczyna krążyć po zaułkach Bangkoku - wśród świątyń, palarni opium, dziecięcych prostytutek i barów go-go. Odkrywa, że w tej sprawie chodzi o coś więcej niż o morderstwo: za ścianami pełza coś, co nie znosi dziennego światła…

"Rødstrupe" er den tredje boka i Jo Nesbøs serie om Harry Hole. Ved et uhell skyter Harry Hole en amerikansk Secret Service-agent under president Bill Clintons Norges-besøk. Saken blir dysset ned og Harry overføres til Overvåkningspolitiet. En faks tikker inn om en våpenliga som er blitt rullet opp i Johannesburg og avslører at en attentatrifle har havnet i Oslo. Harry blir satt på saken, og sammen med sin tidligere partner, den ukonvensjonelle småfugleksperten Ellen Gjelten, finner de spor som peker i retning av norske frontkjempere, det nynazistiske miljøet og en kontakt med kodenavnet Prinsen som synes å ha forbindelser innenfor deres egne rekker. Mens snøen tiner i Oslos gater og avdekker historien bit for bit, har en morder med et helt spesielt prosjekt gjort scenen klar for siste opptreden.

'Nesbo is one of the best thriller writers on the planet' Daily Express A man like Harry had better watch his back... Following the dramatic conclusion of number one bestseller THE THIRST, KNIFE sees Harry Hole waking up with a ferocious hangover, his hands and clothes covered in blood. Not only is Harry about to come face to face with an old, deadly foe, but with his darkest personal challenge yet. The twelfth instalment in Jo Nesbo’s internationally bestselling crime fiction series.

Brilliant rogue police investigator Harry Hole is back, this time as an outsider assembling his own team to help find a serial killer who is murdering young women in Oslo in the next novel in the New York Times best-selling series. THE HUNT IS ON AND THE POLICE ARE RUNNING OUT OF TIME. Two young women are missing, their only connection a party they both attended, hosted by a notorious real-estate magnate. When one of the women is found murdered, the police discover an unusual signature left by the killer, giving them reason to suspect he will strike again. THEY’RE FACING A KILLER UNLIKE ANY OTHER. And exposing him calls for a detective like no other. But the legendary Harry Hole is gone—fired from the force, drinking himself to oblivion in Los Angeles. It seems that nothing can entice him back to Oslo. Until the woman who saved Harry’s life is put in grave danger, and he has no choice but to return to the city that haunts him and track down the murderer. CATCHING HIM WILL PUSH HARRY TO THE LIMIT. He’ll need to bring together a misfit team of former operatives to accomplish what he can’t do alone: stop an unstoppable killer. But as the evidence mounts, it becomes clear that there is more to this case than meets the eye…

When the Norwegian ambassador to Thailand is found dead in a Bangkok brothel, Inspector Harry Hole is dispatched from Oslo to help hush up the case. But once he arrives Harry discovers that this case is about much more than one random murder. There is something else, something more pervasive, scrabbling around behind the scenes. Or, put another way, for every cockroach you see in your hotel room, there are hundreds behind the walls. Surrounded by round-the-clock traffic noise, Harry wanders the streets of Bangkok lined with go-go bars, temples, opium dens, and tourist traps, trying to piece together the story of the ambassador’s death even though no one asked him to, and no one wants him to—not even Harry himself.

Haris Hūlė Norvegijos policijos išsiunčiamas į Australiją stebėti, kaip vyksta nužudymo bylos tyrimas. Auka – dvidešimt trejų metų norvegė televizijos įžymybė. Nors Hūlei griežtai nurodyta nesikišti į kolegų darbą, jis ne iš tų, kurie stebi veiksmą iš paskutinių eilių. Ieškodamas bent menkiausios užuominos Haris susibičiuliauja su vienu bylai vadovaujančiu detektyvu. Ką juodu užčiuopia – tėra tik pradžia virtinėje neišaiškintų žmogžudysčių. Jiems vis giliau kapstant ir artėjant prie žudiko, Haris ima baimintis, kad nė vienas, kuris prisideda prie šios bylos tyrimo, nėra saugus. Parašyta su naujoko užsidegimu. Ši istorija persmelkta ne tik vietos, kurioje buvo rašoma, dvasios, bet ir mano paties gyvenimo. Visai neseniai skaitydamas romaną per radiją išsigandau, kiek daug klaidų kaip jaunas rašytojas padariau, tačiau mane apstulbino kūrinio šviežumas ir drąsa. Jo Nesbø „Šikšnosparnis“ užpildo ankstyvąsias Hūlės istorijos spragas – tikriausiai daugumos jo gerbėjų neapleido klausimas, kaip jis tapo tokia iškankinta siela. Turėdamas neabejotiną gebėjimą užuosti mirtį, Hūlė žengia pirmuosius netvirtus žingsnius – eidamas šiuo keliu jis taps personažu, kuriam neatsispirs joks trilerių gerbėjas. Yorkshire Evening Post (UK) Policijos inspektorius Haris Hūlė skaitytojams jau pažįstamas iš šių kriminalinių romanų: Raudongurklė (norvegų k. pasirodė 2000 m.), Nemezidė (norvegų k. pasirodė 2002 m.), Pentagrama (norvegų k. pasirodė 2003 m.), Gelbėtojas (norvegų k. pasirodė 2005 m.), Sniego Senis (norvegų k. pasirodė 2007 m.), Šarvuota širdis (norvegų k. pasirodė 2009 m.), Vaiduoklis (norvegų k. pasirodė 2011 m.). Jo Nesbø (Ju Nesbio, gim. 1960) – vienas geriausių šių laikų kriminalinių romanų rašytojų pasaulyje. Milžinišką sėkmę ne tik gimtojoje Norvegijoje, bet ir daugelyje užsienio šalių, tarp jų ir Lietuvoje, jam pelnė kultinis knygų ciklas apie Harį Hūlę. Autorius apdovanotas gausybe literatūros premijų, tarp jų „Stikliniu raktu", „Riverton", Norvegijos knygų klubo premija, „Bookseller" prizu, Danijos detektyvų rašytojų akademijos premija, Suomijos detektyvų rašytojų akademijos premija. Jo knygos ne kartą buvo patekusios į tarptautinių bestselerių sąrašus. Šiuo metu pasaulyje parduota daugiau kaip 25 milijonai Nesbø knygų egzempliorių. O pagal romaną „Galvų medžiotojai“ 2011 m. sukurtas to paties pavadinimo kino filmas buvo nominuotas daugybei apdovanojimų, tarp jų Norvegijos nacionaliniam kino apdovanojimui „Amanda" ir Britų akademijos kino ir televizijos apdovanojimui.