{"title":"Jo Nesbo","description":"JO NESBØ is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, whose books have sold sixty million copies worldwide and have been translated into fifty-one languages. In addition to the Harry Hole series, his novels include The Night House, Headhunters, The Son, Blood on Snow, Midnight Sun, Macbeth, and The Kingdom. He is a recipient of the Raymond Chandler Award for lifetime achievement. He lives in Oslo. ROBERT FERGUSON has lived in Norway since 1983. His translations include Norwegian Wood by Lars Mytting, the four novels in Torkil Damhaug's Oslo Crime Files series, and Tales of Love and Loss by Knut Hamsun. He is the author of several biographies, a Viking history and, most recently, The Cabin in the Mountains: A Norwegian Odyssey.","products":[{"product_id":"wolf-hour-hardcover","title":"Wolf Hour - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \"one of today's most interesting thriller writers\" (Lee Child) comes an immersive, propulsive novel in which a detective and a crime writer conduct parallel investigations, six years apart, into a series of puzzling murders. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"[Nesbo] can heighten suspense with a single word and wrong-foot the most attentive customer.\" --\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMinneapolis, Minnesota, 2016.\u003c\/b\u003e When a small-time criminal and gun dealer is shot down in the street, all signs point to Tomas Gomez, a quiet man with a mysterious past--and deep connections to a notorious gang--who has seemingly vanished into thin air. Other murders soon follow, and it appears Gomez is only getting started. Meanwhile, Bob Oz, a down-and-out suspended police officer with a dubious past of his own, becomes fascinated by the case: he is obsessed with the notion of hunting down a serial killer who only he can understand, a killer with a story as tragic as his own. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMinneapolis, Minnesota, 2022. \u003c\/b\u003eAn enigmatic Norwegian man with ties to Minneapolis--a self-described crime writer--has traveled to the United States to research the Gomez case, in the hopes of writing a book about it. But as his investigation progresses, the writer's seemingly neutral position reveals itself to be more complicated than the reader is initially led to believe. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWolf Hour\u003c\/i\u003e is a twisty and unforgettable thriller in classic Jo Nesb  style, which bears out \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e's observation that \"Nesb  explores the darkest criminal minds with grim delight and puts his killers where you least expect to find them. . . . His novels are maddeningly addictive.\"","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101135343839,"sku":"9780593803653","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/2ZXqjN6Evd9780593803653.webp?v=1781068327"},{"product_id":"the-night-house-paperback","title":"The Night House - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the internationally best-selling author, a chilling fresh spin on the classic horror novel - \u003ci\u003eWhen the voices call, don't answer.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eThe Night House\u003c\/i\u003e, the horror begins immediately. And it only keeps calling from there.\"--Josh Malerman, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebest-selling author of \u003ci\u003eBird Box \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSpin a Black Yarn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the wake of his parents' tragic deaths in a house fire, fourteen-year-old Richard Elauved has been sent to live with his aunt and uncle in the remote, insular town of Ballantyne. Richard quickly earns a reputation as an outcast, and when a classmate named Tom goes missing, everyone suspects the new, angry boy is responsible for his disappearance. No one believes him when he says the telephone booth out by the edge of the woods sucked Tom into the receiver like something out of a horror movie. No one, that is, except Karen, a beguiling fellow outsider who encourages Richard to pursue clues the police refuse to investigate. He traces the number that Tom prank-called from the phone booth to an abandoned house in the Mirror Forest. There he catches a glimpse of a terrifying face in the window. And then the voices begin to whisper in his ear . . . \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eShe's going to burn. The girl you love is going to burn. There's nothing you can do about it.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101605892319,"sku":"9780593684900","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/BPSvGbaKPg9780593684900.webp?v=1781071811"},{"product_id":"blood-ties-paperback","title":"Blood Ties - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author comes an explosive novel about a community in crisis and two brothers on the verge of losing everything they've worked so hard to achieve. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Nesb  has established himself as the king of Nordic noir.\" --NPR's \u003ci\u003eAll Things Considered\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFAMILY COMES FIRST. NO MATTER THE COST. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy all accounts, Carl and Roy Opgard are doing quite well for themselves. Or at least they're doing as well as can be expected in a small town like Os. Carl manages the area's swanky and successful spa and hotel, while Roy runs a nearby gas station and harbors grand plans to build it out into an entire amusement park, complete with a roller coaster. But when news breaks about a new highway to be built nearby, bypassing Os and leaving the town cutoff and isolated, it's clear that something has to be done . . . even if the methods are bound to be dirty. Fortunately, Carl and Roy have experience with just that kind of work. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMeanwhile, the town sheriff has gotten his hands on new technology that will enable him to take a deeper look at a slate of unsolved murders from years past--including that of his own father. And just as the sheriff reopens his investigation, the death toll begins to climb. It's like Roy says about his roller coaster: \"Once it's rolling, it's too late to get off.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlood Ties\u003c\/i\u003e is a tense, compulsively readable tour de force about loyalty, family ties, and love that is as destructive as it is powerful.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50102204203231,"sku":"9780593689530","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/O_Eb87i2bp9780593689530.webp?v=1781079136"},{"product_id":"wolf-hour-paperback","title":"Wolf Hour - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the modern master of Nordic noir comes a shocking new thriller set in contemporary Minneapolis, in which a detective and a crime writer conduct parallel investigations, six years apart, into a series of puzzling murders \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Jo Nesb  is one of today's most interesting thriller writers.\" --Lee Child \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMinneapolis, Minnesota, 2016.\u003c\/b\u003e When a small-time criminal and gun dealer is shot down in the street, all signs point to Tomas Gomez, a quiet man with a mysterious past--and deep connections to a notorious gang--who has seemingly vanished into thin air. Other murders soon follow, and it appears Gomez is only getting started. Meanwhile, Bob Oz, a down-and-out suspended police officer with a dubious past of his own, becomes fascinated by the case: he is obsessed with the notion of hunting down a serial killer who only he can understand, a killer with a story as tragic as his own. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMinneapolis, Minnesota, 2022. \u003c\/b\u003eAn enigmatic Norwegian man with ties to Minneapolis - a self-described crime writer - has traveled to the United States to research the Gomez case, in the hopes of writing a book about it. 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