The bat man
The bat man (original title Flaggermusmannen ) is a crime novel by the Norwegian author Jo Nesbø . It is the first part of the Harry Hole series.
action
Superintendent Harry Hole, a dry alcoholic who relapses in the novel, travels to Australia to help the Sydney police investigate the murder of a Norwegian woman. He gets help from Aboriginal colleague Andrew and together they discover that they are dealing with a serial killer who is strangling blonde women. Harry asks his Swedish friend Birgitta to play the decoy . However, she is kidnapped and killed. At times, drug addict Andrew is also suspected. He is also killed.
Harry succeeds in identifying the perpetrator in the city's aquarium. When trying to catch him, the perpetrator falls into a basin in the aquarium and is eaten up by its inhabitants.
expenditure
The original edition was published in 1997 by Aschehoug & Co ( ISBN 82-03-18072-8 ) in Norway. It was published in German by the Ullstein Verlag in Berlin in 1999 as part of the Ullstein yellow series ( ISBN 3-548-24597-8 ) in a translation by Günther Frauenlob.
Reviews
"The book is written fluently and easy to read and you are still working on who the murderer is until the very end."
Awards
The novel received two major literary prizes:
- 1997: Riverton Prize
- 1998: Scandinavian detective award
literature
- Jo Nesbø: The Bat Man . Ullstein Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-548-25364-4 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Compare the specimen copy at the German National Library
- ↑ http://www.buchinformationen.de/rezension.php?id=1468
- ↑ http://www.norwegen.no/News_and_events/culture/Literatur/Jo-Nesbo-macht-Lesereise-in-Deutschland/