Knife
Cover of first edition (Aschehoug)
AuthorJo Nesbø
Original titleKniv
TranslatorNeil Smith
CountryNorway
LanguageNorwegian
SeriesHarry Hole (#12)
GenreCrime fiction
PublisherAschehoug
Publication date
6 June 2019
Published in English
9 July 2019
Media typePrint
Pages519
ISBN978-82-03-36418-1 (hardcover)
OCLC1117712320
839.823/8
LC ClassPT8951.24.E83 K55 2019
Preceded byThe Thirst 
Followed byKilling Moon 

Knife (Norwegian: Kniv, 2019) is a crime novel by Norwegian writer Jo Nesbø, the twelfth in the Harry Hole series.[1][2][3] The book is set in Oslo.

Plot

Harry Hole started drinking again and was kicked out of his home by his wife Rakel. Recently, only minor cases have been entrusted to him, despite the fact that his investigative skills are well known at the anti-crime in Oslo. Everything changes when one morning he wakes up covered in blood without remembering what happened the previous evening and, a short time later, he discovers that a murder had taken place that night.

Reception

Tom Nolan of Wall Street Journal praised Knife's "memorable, well-drawn" character and called it "arguably the best entry yet" in the Harry Hole series, writing, "The moral conundrums in "Knife" are Dostoevskian, the surprises are breathtaking, the one-liners are amusing and the suspense is unrelenting."[4]

Publishers Weekly criticized the novel for having an "enormous number of characters, backstories, subplots, and themes" but nonetheless praised its "well-orchestrated" ending.[5]

Rob Merrill of the Associated Press praised the novel's pacing but felt part of its quality was lost in the English translation.[6]

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