First of all, they take our people’s pride, and when it’s gone they’re scared to death of treading on it. Hole is assisted by Aboriginal colleague Andrew Kensington; together they find out that they are dealing with a serial killer who strangles blonde women. There are a couple of good twists in it but the reader is faced with text that has been poorly translated from the original language into English and sadly, it shows.

During this time Harry and Andrew have spent increasing time at the bar Inger worked out, meeting all sorts of characters. Andy Hoban of Sunday Express gave a rating [a] of 5/5 and noted "Nesbo’s principal characters are both credible and well-drawn and it is fantastic to see a younger Harry, a more loquacious Harry. Murder, especially one which hasn’t been cleared up, isn’t a good advert for the town, so we’re doing what we can.I don’t know how long this project will take me given that I get free books all the time from publishers and then also review books for a trade publication on top of having a day job (and I’m trying to now have something of a social life). When Harry and Andrew travel to investigate Evans, whom Harry is convinced must be the murderer, they find little information about the small times drug dealer.

The hope was to nail Evans on some drug charges, and to scalp information from him while he was detained.Harry Hole is an extremely determined detective, and after the fashion of a dog with a bone, he won’t let go. He was on the point of grabbing a taxi when a black man wearing light blue jeans and a Hawaiian shirt, and with an unusually broad nose and dark, curly hair plowed a furrow between the signs and came striding ­toward him. Not really wanted by the local police force in Sydney but one detective befriends him and sees him as the key to snapping open the case.