Coma (novel)
Koma (original title Politi ) is a detective novel by the Norwegian author Jo Nesbø from 2013. It is the tenth part of the Harry Hole series.
action
The plot of Koma seamlessly follows on from the previous novel Die Larve . Harry Hole survived the shots fired by the son of his partner Rakel Fauke through his bulletproof vest and teaches at the Norwegian Police College in Oslo.
Meanwhile, on the anniversary of unsolved murders, police officers who were involved in the investigation are being killed at the crime scenes of the time. The investigative group of the Department for Violent Crimes, Harry Hole's former department, under the leadership of Gunnar Hagen and the new police chief Mikael Bellmann, is not making progress in the investigation into the police slaughter named by the press . Harry's former colleagues approach him and convince him, as well as the psychologist Ståle Aune, to work on the case.
Harry is not at first convinced that it would be good for him to go back to work as an investigator. He is afraid that work and his alcohol addiction will destroy him. But after his girlfriend Beate Lønn, head of forensic science, was brutally murdered, Harry Hole decided to start the investigation.
After he has identified the police butcher and his booby trap escaped at another former crime scene, the perpetrator brings Rakel and her son Oleg into his power. With the help of an old secret handover trick, Harry is able to unnoticed hand over a pistol to Rakel, who ultimately shoots the police butcher. In order to protect Oleg from prosecution for the murder of Gusto Hanssen, which he committed in Die Larve with the same pistol, they cover up the tracks together and fake the suicide of the police butcher.
At the end of the book, Rakel and Harry get married and an end of the series is suggested, while at the same time crimes continue to be committed in Oslo.
expenditure
The Norwegian original edition was published in 2013 under the title Politi by Verlag Aschehoug & Co ( ISBN 978-82-03-35294-2 ). The German edition was also published in 2013 under the title Koma by Ullstein Verlag ( ISBN 978-3-550080-13-5 ) in translation by Günther Frauenlob. The translation was praised as "terrific".
In addition, an audio book from Audiobook Hamburg and an e-book from Ullstein eBooks were published.
Reviews
“The 53-year-old crime writer is concerned with more in the scenes, which are often heavy on dialogue, but also always exciting without cheap action. Nesbø describes Oslo's police force as a breeding ground for corruption, arrogant ruthlessness and small-minded homophobia, but also as a creative milieu for a whole range of highly competent and deeply humane investigators. Both sides of the coin are brought to the fore in "Koma" as virtuoso as never before in this series of novels. "
“Even if Nesbø manages to build up the tension that is typical for him in parts of" Koma ", and if the skill with which he creates a highly complex crime construct deserves admiration: If you had the Hole series with" Die Larve " Found it at the end, it would have been an impressive, courageous and worthy conclusion. Maybe ten isn't a magic number after all. "
"Jo Nesbø convinces again with strong language, high speed and sophisticated narrative tricks."
literature
- Jo Nesbø: Coma . Ullstein Hardcover, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-550-08013-5 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ DNB 1034275887 Jo Nesbø - Koma - ISBN 978-3-550080-13-5 . Website of the German National Library . Retrieved January 28, 2014.
- ↑ Quoted from the Amazon product page : Timo Weber, Schweriner Volkszeitung , December 20, 2013.
- ↑ DNB 1036958949 Jo Nesbø - Koma [sound carrier] - ISBN 978-38-99-03869-9 . Website of the German National Library . Retrieved January 29, 2014.
- ↑ DNB 1046566636 Jo Nesbø - Koma [Electronic Resource] - ISBN 978-38-43-70627-8 . Website of the German National Library . Retrieved January 29, 2014.
- ↑ Jo Nesbø "Koma": Harry Hole chases "police butcher" . Focus website . Retrieved January 28, 2014.
- ↑ Crime of the month: First board game, then bed game . Spiegel Online website . Retrieved January 28, 2014.
- ↑ Jo Nesbø brings his investigator Harry Hole back to life . Website of the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung . Retrieved January 28, 2014.