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Fantastic!! I must love Norwegian mysteries and flawed detectives!!
Going with 4.0/4.5 stars on this one!

The Redbreast is the 3rd book in the Harry Hole series and I really enjoyed this one. I think you can read this as a stand-alone because I haven’t read books, #1 The Bat & #2 Cockroaches.

I read The Redbreast for my book club selection for July. I’m really happy they picked this mystery because it was complex, suspenseful and I enjoyed it all the way through.
Thanks Terry for joining me in a buddy read for this! It was even more fun to share the WWII madness and Neo-Nazi craziness with you.

The book starts off with Harry Hole embarrassing the force (not really, but politics is a bitch) and he’s been reassigned to do simple surveillance tasks. He comes across a high-powered rifle being bought on the black market. It’s the type of rifle that can be traced back to WWII that was used by Nazi soldiers and allies to Germany.

What’s up with this type of rifle being brought into Oslo, Norway under questionable circumstances? What’s it got to do with Neo-Nazi activities?

And this is the beginning of a slow burn with a fantastic ending!

There's the mystery of the soldiers fighting on the Eastern Front between Russia and German Allies. Norway at the time was invaded by Germany and they were sending Norwegian men to the front lines. When the war was over, these men came back as traitors to their country.

I’ve got to say, I really enjoyed the past to present format in this book. I love how it kept progressing the mystery of the men fighting in 1944 and to present time with Harry Hole trying to figure out Neo-Nazi conspiracies and motives.

I really didn’t see the plot twists or who was behind the killings until Joe Nesbø laid it all out for me at the end. Fantastic writing for me not to figure out a thing!

Definitely recommend this to crime detective fans and people who love Norwegian mysteries. Stick with it though if you can handle the slow burn. It delivers in the end!