Mystery spotlight
Wolf Hour
by Jo Nesbø
Two investigators, six years, and a run of Minnesota murders nobody has connected.
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The Norwegian master of crime fiction comes to America: a Minnesota-set novel about two investigators wrestling with unsolved murders spanning six winters.
Publisher's blurb
Synopsis
Nesbø relocates his particular chill from Oslo to the frozen lakes of northern Minnesota. Two detectives - one local, one an outsider who cannot let a cold case rest - work parallel threads across six years, until the pattern they have each half-seen resolves into something neither wanted to be right about. Translated by Robert Ferguson.
The editorial feature
The move to America suits him. Nesbø's real subject has always been small communities that would rather not know, and the Minnesota setting gives that instinct new ground. The procedural detail is patient; the last hundred pages are not.
Book details
- Genre
- Mystery
- Released
- 3 February 2026
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Featured on
- 3 February 2026
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