Leopard (novel)
Leopard (original title Panserhjerte ) is a detective novel by the Norwegian author Jo Nesbø from 2010. It is the eighth part of the Harry Hole series.
action
After the events described in the previous novel and in particular the threat from the serial killer to whom his girlfriend Rakel and her son Oleg were exposed, Harry Hole leaves Oslo and moves to Hong Kong , where he lives in debt and is addicted to games and drugs.
On the instructions of Harry's former boss Gunnar Hagen, the head of the violent crime department, Kaja Solness brings Harry back to Norway with reference to his dying father in order to solve two murders of young women. But the investigation into the case is withdrawn from the department and the criminal investigation department under the leadership of Mikael Bellmann takes over, which means that Harry can only conduct unofficial investigations.
As more and more murders occur, Harry, with the help of his former colleague and friend Katrine Bratt, finds out that a mountain hut in the vicinity of Ustaoset is the commonality that connects all murdered people - the page in the guest book of the shared overnight day is torn out, however. Harry also determined the murder weapon after a friend from the Hong Kong underworld told an arms dealer in Africa: a Leopold apple.
Although Harry lacks evidence, he can reconstruct the events of the evening in the mountain hut quite precisely: An entrepreneur had cheated on his girlfriend with a hiker during the night and is now afraid of his possible marriage to an industrial daughter who can restore him financially. The perpetrator then lures his girlfriend to Africa and forces her to sign a prenuptial agreement, which gives him the entire property, and wants to kill her. Harry and Kaja then also fly to Africa and are both separately overwhelmed by the perpetrator's henchmen.
Harry is able to free himself and kills both the perpetrator and his girlfriend in an attempt to free Kaja. Together he and Kaja throw the two bodies into a volcano to rule out further police investigations and Harry returns to Hong Kong.
expenditure
The Norwegian original edition was published in 2009 under the title Panserhjerte by Verlag Aschehoug & Co ( ISBN 978-82-03-35130-3 ). The German edition was published in 2010 under the title Leopard by Ullstein Verlag ( ISBN 978-35-50-08774-5 ) in translation by Günther Frauenlob and Maike Dörries. In 2011, the paperback edition was also published by Ullstein Verlag ( ISBN 978-35-48-28321-0 ).
In addition, an audio book from Audiobook Hamburg and an e-book from Ullstein eBooks were published.
Reviews
“A gripping book, with an author in top form. Characters, locations and dialogues ensure that you never get bored while reading. It's not just about a brutal serial killer, but also about the late effects of psychological humiliation, power and ambition, human abysses. A pleasure for fans of the Scandinavian crime thriller, but also a treat for newcomers. "
“Jo Nesbø is not inferior to its Swedish colleagues in terms of sophistication, intricacy and sophistication - and, by the way, not in terms of scope. "Leopard" is one of those books with which you can spend cloudy weekends on the couch most effectively. "
"Jo Nesbø's 700-page crime thriller opus" Leopard "arouses admiration for the flawless, mathematical-looking construction. But this is also its weakness: It is like an art exercise that has nothing to do with a crime thriller because of this artificiality. [...] Nesbø slows itself down, only lets it sprout, only to take it off the wall again, as it has already interwoven all of the secondary and core themes. He has overstepped the boundaries, lays wrong tracks and lets the Weber boat really shoot in all directions in its weave in order to heat up his core issues and to pull one into the other. He's overheating. After about 500 pages there is an exuberant, bold framework of a molecular model with dozens of arranged atoms. Not that it is incomprehensible. But it lacks any human naturalness. The remaining 200 pages act like the notes to a textbook; and that, although the bloody showdown is yet to come. "
literature
- Jo Nesbø: Leopard . Ullstein, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-550-08774-5 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ DNB 998917338 Jo Nesbø - Leopard - ISBN 978-35-50-08774-5 . Website of the German National Library . Retrieved January 30, 2014.
- ↑ DNB 1008521035 Jo Nesbø - Leopard - ISBN 978-35-48-28321-0 . Website of the German National Library . Retrieved January 30, 2014.
- ↑ DNB 999133365 Jo Nesbø - Leopard [sound carrier] - ISBN 978-38-99-03685-5 . Website of the German National Library . Retrieved January 30, 2014.
- ↑ DNB 1024809560 Jo Nesbø - Leopard [Electronic Resource]: Harry Hole's eighth case - ISBN 978-35-50-92011-0 . Website of the German National Library . Retrieved January 30, 2014.
- ↑ Jo Nesbø: The leopard . Website from Krimi-Couch.de . Retrieved January 30, 2014.
- ↑ When the inspector's bull gets going . Derb Frankfurter Rundschau website . Retrieved January 30, 2014.
- ↑ Panzerheart . Sf magazine website . Retrieved January 30, 2014.