Jo Nesbo

Infuriating Dept: Jo Nesbo is merciless. Infuriating, uncompromising, even insidious, according to Winnipeg Free Press. Love is perhaps the only reason why Harry, still maimed by physical scars and suffocating nightmares from two career-ending cases 2010's The Snowman and last year's The Leopard , would return to Oslo after three years of self-exile in Hong Kong. A murder charge against Oleg, the son of his estranged lover, Rakel -- the family that his compulsive job obsession had endangered and denied to him -- fits that gut-wrenching bill and jo Nesbo takes ultimate risk in Phantom. Enlarge Image Enlarge Image Enlarge Image And that's just to his readers. What the Norwegian musician-author does to poor ex-cop Harry Hole in Phantom Random House, 464 pages, $25 is a hellishly intimate torture, terrible to behold. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.