Nemesis (Nesbo novel)
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| Author | Jo Nesbø |
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| Original title | Sorgenfri |
| Translator | Don Bartlett |
| Country | Norway (episodes in Brazil and Egypt, ongoing events in Russia significantly affecting the plot) |
| Language | Norwegian |
| Series | Harry Hole, #4 |
| Genre | Crime novel |
| Publisher | Aschehoug |
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2002 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
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| OCLC | 52064471 |
| Preceded by | The Redbreast |
| Followed by | The Devil's Star |
Nemesis (Norwegian: Sorgenfri, a placename in Norway) is a 2002 crime novel by Norwegian writer Jo Nesbø, the fourth in the Harry Hole series.
A fatal bank robbery in Oslo must be solved, but Harry also has to deal with two women who are important to him, while trying to stay away from the alcohol which continues to have him in its grip.
This book introduces for the first time the character of Beate Lønn, who will become an important part of the series, a valued partner of Harry's who significantly interacts with other characters. Highly courageous and dedicated, she is the daughter of a police officer killed by a bank robber and has joined the police in order to emulate him; she has the unique ability to remember every face she had ever seen; to begin with, she is very shy and easily embarrassed, though she will gain confidence in the course of this and later books.
During a bank robbery in Oslo, a lone robber holds a teller hostage and threatens to kill her unless the ATM is emptied within 25 seconds before the police can arrive. When the transfer takes 31 seconds, the robber executes the hostage and flees. The case goes unsolved until a police video evidence expert, Beate Lønn, surmises from the footage that the robber and the hostage knew each other. Lønn and Inspector Harry Hole, are assigned to the murder investigation. Further robberies occur in the same way, but the hostages meet the robber's specified time limit and are spared.
While Hole's girlfriend Rakel and her son Oleg are in Moscow, Hole is invited to dinner with an old girlfriend named Anna Bethsen, a flamboyant painter. The following morning, Hole awakens in his own apartment with a hangover and no memory of the night before. Later that day, Anna is found dead of an apparent suicide. Seeing that the gun is not in the right hand, Hole believes this Anna was murdered and that the scene was staged. A photograph found near her body suggests the involvement of a rich businessman who may have been Anna's lover. Hole conceals evidence of his presence in Anna's flat, uncertain that he himself is not the killer.
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