Blood on Snow - Hardcover

Praise for Jo Nesbø and Blood on Snow

"[A] tangled tale with a fateful twist." --The Boston Globe

"Nesbø's much-heralded gifts are on display--using his talent for conjuring the chilly Munch-like atmospherics of Oslo in the winter and his eye for grisly, alarming details that slam home the horror of the evil that men do." --The New York Times Book Review

"[An] incendiary cocktail of murder, revenge and a hitman with . . . problems." --The Independent (London)

"Dark, intense, and bone chilling." --Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

"Quick, entertaining. . . . [An] excursion to a slightly different corner of the criminal underworld, where death and love become tangled together in the cold, dark streets." --Paste Magazine

"In the crowded field of Scandinavian crime fiction, Nesbø's books stand out. . . . [He] likes to rip plots up . . . to play with the conventions of his genre." --The New Yorker

"Noiry and pulpy: Nesbø's gorgeously rendered images of snow, and of the titular blood on snow . . . are crying out to be filmed." --The Guardian (London)

"[Blood on Snow] moves along swiftly in the carefully controlled voice of the killer. And before you know it, you're in the middle of one of the wildest scenes in recent crime fiction . . . where there's hardly any place to duck, just as in this entertaining novel, when the bullets fly." --All Things Considered/NPR

"Nesbø is a master storyteller, gripping the reader from the first page." --Daily Express (London)

"I am the world's greatest living crime writer. [Jo Nesbø] is a man who is snapping at my heels like a rabid pit bull poised to take over my mantle when I dramatically pre-decease him." --James Ellroy

"Nesbø explores the darkest criminal minds with grim delight and puts his killers where you least expect to find them. . . . His novels are maddeningly addictive." --Vanity Fair

From the internationally acclaimed author of the Harry Hole novels—a fast, tight, darkly lyrical stand-alone novel that has at its center the perfectly sympathetic antihero: an Oslo contract killer who draws us into an unexpected meditation on death and love.

This is the story of Olav: an extremely talented “fixer” for one of Oslo’s most powerful crime bosses. But Olav is also an unusually complicated fixer. He has a capacity for love that is as far-reaching as is his gift for murder. He is our straightforward, calm-in-the-face-of-crisis narrator with a storyteller’s hypnotic knack for fantasy. He has an “innate talent for subordination” but running through his veins is a “virus” born of the power over life and death. And while his latest job puts him at the pinnacle of his trade, it may be mutating into his greatest mistake. . . .