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Jo Nesbo (Author), Don Bartlett (Translator)
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Publication Date: 3 Sep 2009

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SNOWMAN - OVER 9 MILLION BOOKS SOLD WORLDWIDE

THE MARK OF THE DEVIL, THE SIGN OF A KILLER...

A young woman is murdered in her flat and a tiny red diamond in the shape of a five-pointed star is found behind her eyelid. Detective Harry Hole is assigned to the case, alongside his long-time adversary Tom Waaler and initially wants no part in it.

But Harry is already on his final warning and has little alternative but to drag himself out of his alcoholic stupor when it becomes apparent that Oslo has a serial killer on its hands.

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  • Paperback: 544 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage (3 Sep 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0099546760
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099546764
  • Product Dimensions: 3.2 x 13.2 x 19.9 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (143 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,083 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"The next Stieg Larsson" (Independent )

"Nesbo sets a cracking pace... A series of spectacular plot twists leads to a thrilling finale. Highly recommended" (Guardian )

"Compelling... Shocking and surprising...expertly paced" (The Times )

"Many authors know how to make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. Jo Nesbo's one of the few who keeps them there" (Lindwood Barclay )

"An astonishingly confident debut. The Devil's Star scores with an intriguing plot and Nesbo's mastery of pace and tension" (The Times )

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Detective Harry Hole: an angry and off-the-rails detective who wants to play the game by his own rules.
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135 of 137 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Want a good read? 12 Sep 2008
By Big John
Format:Mass Market Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
Want a good read? This is a very good one. But be warned, Redbreast, although a little disjointed, and therefore harder to read, is a better place to start the Harry Hole series from. If you dont start from there some things might not make sense. In fact you will miss out on what is actually a continuation of the plot from the first book in some ways.Of course Nemesis comes in between just to confuse us all! But what ever you decide to do, this book is well written, as Nesbo really gets into his stride. The plot is full of twists and turns that you just dont expect so that makes it all the more enthralling! It is the kind of page turner that is really good for long air journeys or for sitting up late reading with page turning excitement! Characterisations? Oh yes! Very well constructed and keenly observed! Above all enjoy this Norwegian treasure!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Last book in"The Oslo Trilogy" 29 Aug 2010
By Kate
Format:Paperback
Although I absolutely loved The Devil's Star" I was devasted to realize that I had read the last one first in the trilogy. You must read "The Redbreast" first and then "Nemesis" as "The Devil's Star" follows on from them. It is a great shame that this isn't made clear in these editions. On the inside cover of The Devil's Star it says"the first of Nesbo's novels to be translated into English" so I took a guess and read it first. So be warned! I became suspicious when I started on "The Redbreast" and certain characters were alive who shouldn't have been! I checked out Jo Nesbo's official website and discovered that there are two more Harry Hole novels preceding these three, "The Batman" and "The Cockroaches". Do hope that they are translated soon as it is such a shame not to be able to read them in the correct running order. If you enjoyed Stieg Larsson you will love these books.
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46 of 49 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Takk! 11 Feb 2006
By Nick Proctor
Format:Paperback
A serial killer. An alcoholic cop in trouble with his superiors. Yes, the ingredients seem familiar, but Jo Nesbo's The Devil's Star rings a few changes and is an extremely promising introduction to Oslo detective Harry Hole. The solution to the story is all but unguessable and along the way Nesbo gives a refreshing insight into Norwegian society and creates a series of vivid character portraits that add considerable depth to what might have been formulaic material. I particularly liked the relationship between Hole and his nemesis Waaler, the latter a truly repellent character. The plotting is tight, with red herrings judiciously deployed, whilst throughout the writing is measured, sardonic, compelling. Often lurid, with the cast's sexual pecadilloes explored to telling effect, the next in the series cannot come too soon.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars So you've read Nemesis - now read this! 3 Dec 2008
By Stella
Format:Mass Market Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
I can honestly say I finished this book quicker than any I have ever read. Real edge-of-your seat stuff and I didn't think it could get much better than Redbreast and Nemesis. This series is sure to go down as one of the classics.
I can't wait for the next book to be translated into English. We keep getting references to something in Harry Hole's past in Sydney; It would be nice to be able to read the prequel(s) to Redbreast.
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145 of 157 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars missing books.....again 3 Oct 2010
By Richard Alexander
Format:Kindle Edition
this book isnt the first book of harry hole. it is the 3rd according to his own website. Why then are the first two missing? I was looking on kindle so not sure about paperbacks but amazon have got this one wrong, and not for the first time.
I suggest checking author sites before buying and if needbe, buy elsewhere to get the missing novels first.
This series are as follows -

The batman
The cockroaches
The redbreast
Nemesis
The devils star
The redeemer
The snowman
The leopard

get it right amazon !!!!!
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64 of 69 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Jo Nesbo - The Devil's Star 12 Dec 2005
By RachelWalker TOP 500 REVIEWER
Format:Paperback
Excellent book. Another excellent Scandinavian book. More colourful than a lot of these dour Scandinavian things, too: engaging, likeable Harry Hole is a step above Rebus, a step above Rebus. In the alcoholic stakes, he's probably only trumped by Robicheaux and then only just. He's a mess of a man who only survives in his job thanks to a boss who recognises his talent for what it is, and makes a pleasing change to all the antagonistic authority figures you normally see in novels like this.

Oslo makes for a good and unusual setting to the story, and Nesbo renders it atmospheriocally. The plot is clever, absolutely gripping, very well structured, and Nesbo handles everything very well indeed. Part of what makes this novel great is that this is never really the book, plotwise, that you think it is. It begins with a disappearance, morphs into an interesting serial killer novel, and over 100 pages from the end, when Hole aprehends the killer, it morphs into something quite different. Just when you think the book is winding down and surely can't have far to go, it kicks right off into a tense thriller. There's enough plot here for two good books, but Nesbo condenses it excellently into one. Yet again I look forward to reading even more from this new foreign writer.

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5.0 out of 5 stars "Good tragedies always have a little humour." 8 Mar 2010
By Mary Whipple HALL OF FAME TOP 100 REVIEWER
Format:Mass Market Paperback
(4.5 stars) In the third novel of this outstanding mystery series to be released in the US, alcoholic police inspector Harry Hole, "the lone wolf, the drunk, the [Oslo Police] department's enfant terrible...and the best detective on the sixth floor" has been AWOL from his job for a month, on a bender which he seems unable to end. He is obsessed with identifying and finding the killer of Ellen Gjelten, his former partner and friend. And Rakel, the woman he dearly loves, has told him to stay away from her and her young son until he resolves his problems. When Bjarne Moller, the Crime Squad Chief, calls him to investigate the death of a young woman, Moller is so short-handed that he has to put Harry on an investigation team with Tom Waller, a man Harry despises and believes to be involved in criminal enterprises.

Norwegian author Jo Nesbo begins this novel with the best first three paragraphs that I have read in years. Ostensibly a description of a water leak which works its way from a fifth floor apartment into the apartment below, it is, in reality a menace-filled mood-setter which presages real horror. And when the ceiling in the fourth floor apartment starts to leak on the young couple preparing a pot of potatoes on the stove, Nesbo's truly wicked sense of humor kicks in, to re-emerge at other critical points in the novel. Before long the police have more murders and a missing persons case. A "devil's star," with one point on the bottom and two at the top, has been found at every crime scene, and each victim has a star-shaped red diamond inserted under the eyelid. Each also has a finger missing.

The mystery here is compelling-the story of a twisted killer being sought by policemen who also have their own problems-but Nesbo is at least as concerned with character.... Read more ›
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