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Blood on Snow

By: Jo Nesbo, Neil Smith - translator
Narrated by: Patti Smith
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Olav lives the lonely life of a fixer.

When you ‘fix’ people for a living – terminally – it’s hard to get close to anyone.

Now he’s finally met the woman of his dreams.

But there are two problems.

She’s his boss’s wife.

And Olav’s just been hired to kill her.

From the bestselling author of BAFTA-nominated Headhunters, comes Jo Nesbo’s Blood on Snow.

Narrated by music legend Patti Smith.

Crime Fiction International Mystery & Crime Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Crime Fiction

Critic Reviews

Deserves to be a smash... A perfectly pitched thriller
[An] incendiary cocktail of murder, revenge and a hitman with multiple problems
Nesbo is in bracing form...gripping
Striking in its simplicity… Nesbo is a writer at the top of his game who continues to amaze in new and confounding ways
The undisputed king of Scandinavian crime fiction...I am so used to the energetic plot twists, fiendish violence and addictive verbosity of Nesbo’s writing that Blood on Snow, with its simplicity, brevity and unlikely poetry, comes as a welcome antidote. It is set in the 1970s, an era of increasing fascination to Nesbo, and has a first-person narrative that provides a window into its protagonist’s lonely, tortured soul
Pure, bloody, cold, atmospheric and engaging noir
A fine novel ...suspenseful. Blood on Snow has a lot of that romanticised masculinity one finds in for example mafia movies... it’s one of the contributing factors in making the best passages in this novel truly wonderful literature. If I were to highlight one particular quality, it would have to be how beautifully Nesbø has drawn up his main character and how effective Olav’s narrative voice is.
The story echoes many sources, for example mob films, Spaghetti Westerns, hard-boiled crime and social melodrama...The end, especially, is nothing less than a stylistic masterclass
Jo Nesbø’s unstoppable joy of storytelling has found a new avenue
Blood on Snow is Nesbø’s own “pulp fiction”, in two senses. It’s both a tribute to the simple, hard-boiled narrative style from the old days, but there are also parallels with Quentin Tarantino films... Nesbo’s joy of telling stories doesn't leave anything to wish for. As a tribute to the genre, Blood on Snow also succeeds in reminding us that many of these role models had literary qualities that should not be underestimated.
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Story was ok. But why it was read, frustratingly slow, by a woman with a strong New York gangster voice beats me. Could put you off audio books for life.

Dreadful

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Can't finish. No Harry, wrong voice 😡
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narration was terrible an insult to most of the other books narrated by Sean Barret.....once again narration or reading was kindergarten level

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