After a number of unfortunate events, Jon ends up working for the Fisherman, Oslo's drug kingpin. June 4th 2015 To see what your friends thought of this book. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. I’ve read almost all of Jo Nesbo’s Harry Hole novels. What is the first Blood on Snow book? Located in the far northerly regions of Norway, the area is vast and open, as well as being populated by the Læstadian, a branch of the Lutheran Church, who take their Bible very seriously and cast aspersions on those who frolic in an 'unChristian' manner. Jon is another fixer with a heart as his motives for getting involved in the jobs that he does for The Fisherman are motivated by love and he escapes the avenging hitmen because of love.

Has Jon done enough to save himself, if not the soul that may not be found within him? In 2007 Nesbø also released his first children's book, Doktor Proktors Prompepulver.

I like Nesbo's prose. Unlike thrillers that deal in incomprehensible plots and cheap thrills, this is the believable, focused story of a young man trying to escape the consequences of crime and facing hard choices about love, religion and life itself.”. FREE Shipping on orders over $25.00. Home Books But in a way, it fit the theme with the plot of forgiveness and redemption. I absolutely love the setting in Finnmark so far north that the sun never sets in summer and the Sami characters that he meets in Kasuna. Quick and easy read - bit predictable though (having read the toilet scene from Headhunters, I guessed the almost as gross hiding place from the killers that the main character went for in this one quite easily !) But still.... (-1 because of that whole religion. Great reads! Sold by TED TRADE LLC and ships from Amazon Fulfillment.

Jo Nesbø is one of favorite thriller writers. I need a little something in my crime stories besides constant violence. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. Anyway, this story moved along at a fast clip keeping me engaged. Finally, he had reached the end of the line, the Finnmark Plateau, where the summer months see no sunset in the land of the Midnight Sun. Please try again. Do you have to have read the first Blood on Snow before this one? He is a most reluctant hitman and finds himself on the run from his boss in Oslo. I don’t know if Mr. Nesbo had a deadline to meet or what, but this book never should have been published. I really enjoyed this love story in the arctic circle and don't know quite how to review it other than let go, read on and enjoy. Where “[e]ven the greenery of summer held a promise of harder, colder times that would try to pull you down, and which would win in the end.”, Reviewed in the United States on August 1, 2017. Novella, nominally a sequel to Blood on Snow, but the only link is The Fisherman, who again features little but is the malignant force driving the plot. With the authors background being so diverse in economics and music as well as writing I guess it can be expected for him to have a more emotional side and Midnight Sun shows it. No. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. Careful not to get too comfortable as his enemies are just over the horizon, Jon takes up the temporary alias of “Ulf”, a hunter from the city, and befriends a single mother, Lea, and her young son, Knut. Taking on the role of debt collector and fixer, Jon makes a calculated error and is on the lam with a large sum of drugs and money, with henchmen after him. This one w. I thoroughly enjoyed this story. The descriptions of Finnmark – which is fairly unfamiliar territory even for Norwegians – are partly drawn from my own experiences of travelling and living in the area in the 1970s and early 1980s, and partly from other people’s accounts of Sami culture, including Øyvind Eggen, who has kindly given me permission to use extracts from his dissertation on Læstadianism. As the reader leans more of Jon's backstory, Nesbø also tells of Lea's struggles as daughter of the town's minister and how she has shielded Knut from the harsh truths that many others know. 'The Norwegian master...mixes humour with solemnity, poetry with suspense, and play with death. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. The connection with the previous book, Blood on Snow, is really limited to the Fisherman, the crime lord from Oslo, from whom our lead character is running. Set in 1978, this story is played out in Finnmark, in the very north of Norway, and at its core is a story of redemption and love. I loved the characters, Ulf or Jon, the reluctant hitman, Lea and her young son, Knut and Mattis, a sami priest. So now he's run to a remote village at the top of Norway where the sun never sets.

He reaches the end of the line--in Finnmark, the Norwegian county which is in the northeast corner of the country, bordering the Soviet Union ( the story is set in the 70s). I may be the only person on the planet that hasn’t previously read a book by Jo Nesbo.

Midnight Sun is the second book in Jo Nesbo's Blood on Snow series. 3.5 This is apparently the second in The Fisherman series, I haven't read the first.

He pulls his jacket closer bracing for the chill, absentmindedly fingers the gun in his pocket and surrenders to the cold isolation and the stark desolation ahead. In his second novella, Nesbø offers new insight into the world of drug dealers and the redemption they seek, sometimes in places they'd least expect. However, as Jon tries to plan his next move, the Fisherman sends someone from Oslo to bring a mortal message. He was once the Fisherman's fixer, but after betraying him, Ulf is now the one his former boss needs fixed. “I shut my eyes and concentrated on the sun, and on feeling it warm my skin. So we learn something about this remote area of Europe. Jon worked for The Fisherman selling drugs and other 'special' jobs as needed. This one features Jon Hansen or Ulf who is on the run from Fisherman having failed to carry out a ‘fix’. Mattis is an interesting character and in a slightly dodgy way, he is honourable. Nesbø graduated from the Norwegian School of Economics with a degree in economics. Nesbø graduated from the Norwegian School of Economics with a degree in economics. He knows how to write characters, plot, and scenery. In a remote corner of Norway a mountain town so far north the sun never sets a man is running for his life in the thrilling sequel to number one bestseller Jo Nesbos Blood on Snow Jon is on the run He has betrayed Oslos biggest crime lord The Fisherman Fleeing to an isolated corner of Norway to a mountain town so far north that the sun never sets Jon hopes to find sanctuary amongst a local religious sect … You betcha.

Definitely better than “Blood on Snow”, and having a nice criminal as the hero helps us feel sympathetic to his cause. This short story is nothing like any Harry Hole novel but if you have read other works it feels right. It is 214 pages of rambling that goes nowhere. The Greek god. Nesbø quasi-continuation of the Blood on Snow series is equally captivating as the first novella, though offers fresh and entertaining aspects the reader can appreciate. Either way, the writing is simple and crisp. Jon must hide himself and gather his wits in a place that he does not belong. “La saggezza dimora nella testa e la fede nel cuore. The characters are so well written and the leads are endearing and quirky as Jo Nesbo's best. Though this is lacking the depth of the Harry Hole novels, I enjoyed this one. --, Jo Nesbø’s books have been translated into forty-seven languages. This story isn't quite as in depth as the Harry Hole series, and I liked this. Midnight Sun: A novel - Kindle edition by Nesbo, Jo. On pleasure. After a number of unfortunate events, Jon ends up working for the Fisherman, Oslo's drug kingpin.

Story. This review is for the audiobook only - meaning, really, that it is a review of Kim Gordon's reading of the book. Jon is on the run from the Fisherman, and heads to Finnmark, a remote area in Northeast Norway, near Russia and Finland, where life is very hard. He was born in Oslo and grew up in Molde. To help you sleuth out a new read, we asked five of the season’s hottest... Jon is on the run. Or just as likely, I like his translator's prose. Finnmark, north of the Arctic Circle, where Norway shares a border with Finland and the Soviet Union. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The spare prose seems to fit perfectly this fast moving story. This one was just perfect for me, as the story alternates between the present moment and Jon's past. I guess the only part that I didn't find that engaging was that whole religion thingy going on it this one. Jo Nesbo’s (please pardon me, but you will need to imagine that there is a line through the “o” in Nesbo’s last name. I also liked the other characters he meets, particularly Knut. E non sempre sono due buone vicine.”.

As Jon begins to discover himself and the connection he's developing for those around him, his executioners return to finish the job. Thank you) hero from his new novel. Don't bother buying this new one: short, rather bleak and several gory situations. Fleeing to an isolated corner of Norway, to a mountain town so far north that the sun never sets, Jon hopes to find sanctuary amongst a local religious sect. Ships from and sold by B-mine llc.

“Jo Nesbo is back with a taut thriller set on his home turf…. Nesbo is a very good writer. We’d love your help. The official website for Jo Nesbo, author of the Harry Hole detective crime novels including The Bat, The Snowman and more bestselling thrillers, Blood on Snow and Midnight Sun. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Something went wrong. Set in the 1970s in a run-down, rainy, industrial town, Jo Nesbo's Macbeth centers around a police force struggling to shed an incessant drug problem. Midnight Sun. Hedon. Nesbø has a way of grossing his readers out, with ill humor attached, but how else was Ulf to survive. I have not been disappointed so far. Peering squinty eyed over the horizon , the sun casting its blood orange hue on the dark, glassy sea, just passed the island that dots its surface, he could imagine the frosty tip of the North Pole. I did not know this is the second in the series, or I would have found the first one and read it first. The first one is a completely different story and though I've just started this one and there are a couple of references to events in the first one I. He has betrayed Oslo’s biggest crime lord: The Fisherman.