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Harry Hole is introduced in The Bat as a police officer with the Oslo Crime Squad. Born in 1965, Harry's mother, a descendant of the Sami people , dies due to cancer while he is in his twenties. Harry never has a close relationship with his father Olav, a former teacher, but is deeply attached to his younger sister Søs, who has Down syndrome .
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Harry Hole was born in Oppsal, Oslo. His parents were teachers and he grew up with his little sister, Sis. His mother died when he was very young. His most significant romantic relationship is with Rakel, whom he met when she was working for the Secret Service. He is very close to Rakel’s son, Oleg. Harry’s closest friends are a taxi driver called ...
Graduated from Police College and Law School, grades marginally above average. Special investigator for Crime Squad in Oslo. One-year course with FBI in Chicago, specialising in serial killers. Short stint with the Norwegian Secret Service before returning to Crime Squad. Described by Head of Crime Squad as the best investigator in the department a...
Music: Likes everything from Sex Pistols to Duke Ellington, from Neil Young to Slipknot. Film: His all-time favourite is Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation. Considers Verhoeven’s Starship Troopersa masterpiece. Substance abuse: Alcoholism runs in the family. Started drinking heavily in his late teens, has tried most types of drugs. Views them ...
Ambition:To understand what evil is. And what love is. Future plans: The near future looks dismal. After that it gets darker. And then it all goes to hell…
Harry Hole is a genuine anti-hero: an impossible character, yet impossible not to like. According to his superiors, Harry is both Oslo Crime Squad’s most brilliant detective, and its most frustrating. He struggles with authority, especially when bureaucracy prevents him from doing what’s right for the people of Oslo and the victims who ...
- The Bat. (Flaggermusmannen – 1997) The series starts in the most un-Nordic location possible as Harry Hole lands in Sydney, Australia. He’s there at the request of the Australian police, who are investigating the murder of Norwegian TV presenter Inger Holter.
- Cockroaches. (Kakerlakkene – 1998) Cockroaches was eventually translated into English in November 2012. Hole has been drinking and trying to deal with what happened in Sydney, and he’s also angry about the rape of his sister, when his boss Bjarne Møller scrapes him off a barstool and puts him on the next plane to Bangkok.
- The Redbreast. (Rødstrupe – 2000) For English readers, The Redbreast is the second de facto Harry Hole novel. Appearing in 2006, it’s the first in Nesbo’s Oslo Trilogy, but came out a year after the third in the trilogy, The Devil’s Star.
- Nemesis. (Sorgenfri – 2002) Book two in the Oslo Trilogy takes place two years after The Redbreast and Hole is called to the scene of a bank robbery that’s gone south.
Jan 17, 2013 · Detective Biography: Harry Hole. January 17, 2013. Officer Name: Harry Hole. Overview: Inspector in Crime Squad, Oslo Police Force. DOB: 1963. Nationality: Norwegian. Marital Status: Single, but his heart belongs to Rakel Faulke, with whom he has a very complex relationship. He’s a strong, if flawed, father figure to Rakel’s son Oleg ...
Synopsis. Following the traumatic Snowman case, former police inspector Harry Hole has exiled himself in Hong Kong. Kaja Solness, a new Norwegian Crime Squad officer, tracks down Hole and asks for his help investigating possible serial killings in Oslo. He is convinced to return when told that his father, Olav, is dying.
Sep 11, 2017 · The Bat – 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.
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