The Bat: The First Inspector Harry Hole Novel (Harry Hole Series)
Don Bartlett
Language: English
Pages: 384
ISBN: 034580709X
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
The electrifying first appearance of Jo Nesbø’s detective, Harry Hole.
Inspector Harry Hole of the Oslo Crime Squad is dispatched to Sydney to observe a murder case. Harry is free to offer assistance, but he has firm instructions to stay out of trouble. The victim is a twenty-three year old Norwegian woman who is a minor celebrity back home. Never one to sit on the sidelines, Harry befriends one of the lead detectives, and one of the witnesses, as he is drawn deeper into the case. Together, they discover that this is only the latest in a string of unsolved murders, and the pattern points toward a psychopath working his way across the country. As they circle closer and closer to the killer, Harry begins to fear that no one is safe, least of all those investigating the case.
FIRST VINTAGE CRIME/BLACK LIZARD EDITION, JULY 2013 Excerpt from Cockroaches copyright © 1998 by Jo Nesbø. English translation copyright © 2013 by Don Bartlett. All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published in Norway as Flaggermusmannen by H. Aschehoug & Co. (W. Nygaard), Oslo, in 1997. Copyright © 1997 by Jo Nesbø. This translation was originally published in Great Britain by Harvill Secker, an imprint of
marijuana and LSD that was the norm in those days. They had a child, got divorced, and when Evans was eighteen the father went back to the US. The mother’s into healing, Scientology and all sorts of spiritual mysticism. She runs a place called the Crystal Castle on a ranch near Byron Bay. There she sells stones of karma and imported junk from Thailand to tourists and soul-seekers. When Evans was eighteen he decided to do what an increasing number of young Australians do,” he said, turning to
you’re wondering whether I can handle it. Well, what can I say? I think I loved the girl.” Watkins looked uneasy. Lebie nodded slowly. “But I’m going to breathe underwater,” Harry said. Three thirty. No one in the conference room took any notice of the fan’s lament. “OK, we know who our man is,” Harry said. “And we know he thinks the police don’t know. He’s probably thinking that I’m trying to falsify evidence against Evans White. But I’m afraid this is a very temporary situation. We can’t
them you’ve acquitted yourself well here, Holy. I understand you’re being considered for promotion at home.” “No one said anything to me, sir.” “Take the rest of the day off and see some of Sydney’s sights before you go, Holy.” “I’ll just eliminate this Alex Tomaros from our inquiries first, sir.” McCormack stood gazing out of the window at an overcast and stifling hot Sydney. “I long for home too, Holy. Across the beautiful sea.” “Sir?” “Kiwi. I’m a Kiwi, Holy. My parents came here when I
me.” “And you didn’t see anyone there?” “Not a soul,” the caretaker answered without any hesitation. “Could anyone have got in another way apart from the back door or the stage door?” “Well, there’s a corridor at the side of the gallery. Now the g-gallery was closed yesterday, but the door was open because the lighting engineer was sitting up there. Have a word with him.” The lighting engineer’s prominent eyes bulged like those of a deep-sea fish that had just been brought to the surface.