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The Thirst

The compulsive Harry Hole novel from the No.1 Sunday Times bestseller

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By: Jo Nesbo, Neil Smith - translator
Narrated by: Sean Barrett
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*DETECTIVE HOLE IS NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES*

There's a new killer on the streets.

A woman is found murdered after an internet date. The marks left on her body show the police that they are dealing with a particularly vicious killer.

And he's out for blood.

Under pressure from the media to solve the crime, the force know there's only one man for the job. But Harry Hole is reluctant to return to the place that almost took everything from him. Until he starts to suspect a connection between this killing and his one failed case...

'The king of all crime writers' Sunday Express

'Fast-moving...stunning' Sunday Times

'What distinguishes Jo Nesbo...is his wry sense of humour. He not only provides a super-complex plot with plenty of twists...but also skilfully continues the lives of the all-too-fallible characters we have grown to love and hate' Evening Standard

© Jo Nesbo 2017 (P) Penguin Audio 2017

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Critic reviews

An extremely gruesome journey to the darker recesses of human nature, this grisly treat will delight Nesbo’s fans
It’s a big-boned, Technicolor epic in the current Nesbo style, starting adagio and ending accelerando, but with the kind of close psychological character readings that distinguished his early work
An epic tale that will delight fans of the bestselling series… There is always a risk that if you resurrect a much-loved series after a long break it will not reach its previous highs. But The Thirst is Nesbo at his glorious best with even the minor characters wonderfully drawn. This tense, nerve-shredding tale is impossible to put down as it hurtles towards a stunning finale. Nesbo is one of the best thriller writers on the planet (Charlotte Heathcote)
Gripping from the get-go, deliciously dark and expertly plotted, this is Nesbo at his brilliant best
Expertly plotted with vividly drawn characters, frenetic police chases and philosophising villains [...] Expect to be thoroughly entertained
Fast-moving...stunning
[The Thirst is] a breath-taking reading experience... Nesbo is the master when it comes to building a long and increasingly steep dramatic curve... The pace in The Thirst is somewhat calmer than in the previous Harry Hole books, more of a waltz than a rock and roll, until we're a bit more than halfway through. But from there on, it's full on action with blood gushing and splattering until the last page is turned
The Thirst like its stablemates is a bulky but zippy 500-pager which never loiters in one place for long. Nesbø keeps you guessing with his usual bag of tricks, making everyone seem a little suspect (or almost everyone). His cynicism about bent coppers and unscrupulous journalists is an inexhaustible and entertaining sideshow...if you liked the other ten, you'll greedily sink your teeth into this
Jo Nesbo is on top form... [The Thirst is] a spell-binding story about brutal crimes and ambitions gone astray
One cannot but rejoice at this reunion with Jo Nesbo's Harry Hole
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It makes me sad to know I am going to have to wait a long time for the next Jo Nesbo book. I've read/listened to all of the Jo Nesbo books and I am addicted. Sean Barrett is just the best narrator, I could listen to him all day every day, the characters portrayal is excellent. It hard to find something else to listen after this, but I do have other favourites.

Brilliant as normal

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If you could sum up The Thirst in three words, what would they be?

Gripping page turner

What was one of the most memorable moments of The Thirst?

Harry, always harry

What does Sean Barrett bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?

Sean Barrett is the consummate narrator. He could make a telephone directory sound interesting

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Yes and no, yes because it was riveting, no because I knew I'd miss Harry

Any additional comments?

When's the next one due

He's back. Better than ever

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Classic Nesbo, Classic Hole, possibly my favourite to date. Hopeful of many more Harry Hole adventures to come.

Simply Excellent

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I adore Jo Nesbo's books and this is a particularly fine example. I highly recommend this book and indeed the entire Harry Hole series. I would recommend this book to all readers, even those who have not read the entire series but I would highly recommend reading the other books in the series first to give a real appreciation for the depth of the characters and the established and developed relationships between them.

Dark, layered and suspenseful

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Would you listen to The Thirst again? Why?

I've read all the Harry Huole books and so the formulae does not surprise. wasn't so ectatic during the first half, with all the descriptive murders, and red herrings flying all over the place, but the last third really started to move and I became totally hooked, and was constantly thrown off my guard. BUt oh dear I hope that is the end of the vampires...........couldn't cope with another lot! Sean Barrett is just superb at narrating, but I kept finding the change between paragraphs, where Nesbo changes to a different character and situation confusing, in a book you would see the paragraph indent, but there wasn't enough time lapse in the recording.

Very good but not mind blowing.

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