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Title: The Bat
Subtitle: The First Inspector Harry Hole Novel
Author: Jo Nesb
Narrator: John Lee
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-02-13
Publisher: Random House Audio
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1402 votes
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective
Publisher's Summary:
Available in English at last! The first book in the remarkable, best-selling Harry Hole series from Jo Nesb.
Before Harry took on the neo-Nazi gangs of Oslo, before he met Rakel, before The Snowman tried to take everything he held dear, he went to Australia. Harry Hole is sent to Sydney to investigate the murder of Inger Holter, a young Norwegian girl who was working in a bar. Initially sidelined as an outsider, Harry becomes central to the Australian police investigation when they start to notice a number of unsolved rape and murder cases around the country. The victims were usually young blondes. Inger had a number of admirers, each with his own share of secrets, but there is no obvious suspect and the pattern of the other crimes seems impossible to crack. Then a circus performer is brutally murdered, followed by yet another young woman. Harry is in a race against time to stop a highly intelligent killer who is bent on total destruction.
Critic Reviews:
Advance praise from the U.K. for
The BatEven with this first book Nesbs command of the idiom is completely in placethere is absolutely no sense that the writer was finding his feet and aficionados will be very pleased to slide this on to their bookshelves alongside the other Harry Hole novels. --
The Daily ExpressIt is fantastic to see a younger Harry, a more loquacious Harry. . . . [Nesb is] a terrific writer who knows how to build a story, taking you slowly to the top of a rollercoaster before sending you hurtling towards a solution that you never see coming. --
Scottish ExpressNesb is already taking on the clichés, ruthlessly tearing them apart and coming up with new riffs. . . . Most satisfyingly, we can now see the organic shape that Nesb always intended his work to take. --
The Independent (London)
