Ein Harry-Hole-Krimi, Folge 3: Rotkehlchen

Geschrieben von Jo Nesbø

Erzählt von Achim Buch

Der Osloer Kommissar Harry Hole wird auf einen Posten beim Staatsschutz versetzt. Als seine neue Dienststelle Informationen über eine südafrikanische Spezialwaffe erhält, die nach Norwegen importiert wurde, nimmt Harry sich der Sache an. Alle Spuren weisen in die Vergangenheit, auf eine Gruppe von Kollaborateuren, die während des Zweiten Weltkriegs an der Seite der Nationalsozialisten gekämpft haben. Offenbar haben diese Kräfte ein Attentat auf den norwegischen Thronfolger geplant. Es gibt viele potenzielle Täter, und Harry muss sich in einen tiefen und brodelnden Sumpf begeben, um diesen Fall zu lösen.

• Sprache: Deutsch
• Herausgeber: Hörbuch Hamburg Audio
• Erscheinungsdatum: 21. März 2014
• ISBN: 9783844904710

Jo Nesbø

A musician, songwriter, and economist, Jo Nesbø is also one of Europe’s most acclaimed crime writers, and is the winner of the Glass Key Award, northern Europe’s most prestigious crime-fiction prize, for his first novel featuring Police Detective Harry Hole. Nesbø lives in Oslo.

Rezensionen für Ein Harry-Hole-Krimi, Folge 3

[gypsysmom_1 · Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen]

This is my introduction to the Harry Hole series about which there has been much acclaim. I can understand that now. Hole is just complicated enough to be interesting. He’s a bit of a loner but he’s not antisocial. In fact he may have found someone to share his life with in this book; we’ll have to see where that leads.The book starts with Hole and his partner standing security for the American President’s trip to Oslo to try to broker a peace between Israel and Palestine. Harry sees a figure in a toll booth which is supposed to be empty. It may be an American secret service agent but they weren’t informed anyone would be coming. So Harry approaches the booth waiting for Ellen to honk the horn to tell him it is a secret service agent but the President’s cavalcade is at the booth and Harry can’t hold off any longer. He shoots the person a second before the horn blares to signal it is an American agent. The agent lives and the Americans admit that they were at fault. There’s no public announcement but the Powers that Be figure it won’t be long until someone finds out. They decide to remove Hole from the Oslo police and give him a promotion as a government inspector in a department that looks into threats to security. Hole is assigned to examine incoming reports and pass on any he thinks may be credible which essentially means all of them. However one report deals with a very expensive rifle being smuggled into Norway and Harry asks to be able to examine this report himself. This leads him to chase down surviving men who joined the Nazis after Norway was taken over. One of them is probably the person who ordered the rifle and Hole believes it is going to be used in an assassination. He just has to find out which ex-soldier it is and what the target is. In an interesting plot twist the reader also is privy to the ex-soldier’s thoughts as he goes about getting the rifle and setting up a spot to fire from. However the reader never knows who the man is because he is always just called The Old Man. There is quite a bit of background about the Norwegians fighting with the Germans on the Eastern Front which was interesting. Apparently some Dutch also joined the German army. We always hear about the brave members of the Resistance during the war but this is the first I’ve really read anything about people who collaborated with the Germans.

[paulrx04 · Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen]

So far my favorite in the Harry Hole series.

[hemlokgang · Bewertung: 3 von 5 Sternen]

Definitely not my favorite in the series. It seemed to drag for me

[sberson_2 · Bewertung: 3 von 5 Sternen]

A long, complex, but satisfying thriller. I like this author, but this was not his very best.

[ma_washigeri · Bewertung: 3 von 5 Sternen]

Need to add a bit of an extra star because it was very good. Plenty of complexity and a mastery of the short chapter which keeps the pace going beautifully. I had to look the author up as I couldn't decide whether the writer was a man or woman and that intrigued me. Although the detective is a man and women as well as men get killed I could still imagine the author might be a woman, a welcome absence of misogyny. I usually steer clear of war related books but with the centenary of the first world war coming up this year, I have found myself reading a number of books dealing fictionally with the aftermath of the two 'world' wars. The Norwegians fighting on the German eastern front made it all the more interesting as normally english texts only look from the perspective of the Norwegian resistance, and reading only 2 years after the Fascist Brevick massacre the book deals with very topical issues.

[philipjhunt · Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen]

Oh, but this guy is good! Jo Nesbo isn't just the "new Stieg Larrson" as the cover proclaims. After all, Larrson wrote only one really good novel - his first. I lost count of Nesbo's outpout after forty! Now, I haven't read them all. Yet. But so far so good. Nesbo writes plots that twist and turn. You think the mystery is all sorted, then you notice a thick wad of unread pages remain under your right thumb and, sure enough, there are more surprises to come. Nesbo is also very good at wrapping up loose ends in a way that doesn't leave you wondering on the one hand, or feeling patronised on the other.

[ffortsa · Bewertung: 5 von 5 Sternen]

As I suspected, a mystery was my first completed book of 2015. Harry Hole gets himself into a mess again, with diplomatic overtones, but this is in Norway for a change. He's still fighting the bottle, and because of the aforementioned mess he's moved to another staff and promoted to disguise the mix-up. But he's already on the track of an unusual gun, identified by shell casings, that could only be meant as a weapon of assassination. Who bought it, when will it be used, and why?Nesbo takes the reader back to World War II and the era of Quisling and the Norwegian volunteers against the Soviet Union on the eastern front. The fighting, the trenches, the cameraderie are vivid. In that icy horror, Nesbo gives the reader the clues that Harry has to dig out 50 years later.In the midst of it all, Harry actually falls in love. But the web of his lover, the history of the war, and the menace of that gun are very tangled. I almost had the answer before Harry did - I knew who he was looking for before he did, but I couldn't figure out the present day identity of the man in time. All in all, excellent.

[thecrow2 · Bewertung: 5 von 5 Sternen]

The third in the Harry Hole series but the first I read and I must say it made me curious the rest of the series. Good characters, great story interweaving with happenings in the WWII at Stalingrad. A very enjoyable read indeed....

[lovestampmom · Bewertung: 3 von 5 Sternen]

This series came highly recommended by a few of my reader friends. I have to say, this story started out great, moving from past to present, introducing interesting characters on the way. The beginning chapters were great and held my interest, but the middle chapters were a bit long and the author took forever to wrap up the story. Harry Hole is a lovable character, but not the best or the most intelligent or witty; Even weak and lack self control in a lot of aspects, if you ask me. I like his short-term partner, Ellen, much better; although she was killed off right after she appeared. Her chemistry with Harry would have much potential.

I found that The Redbreast is not the first Harry Hole book, but was the first to be available in the US. I wonder if I would have loved his character a bit more if I started reading from the first of the story or reading the original version without translation. I did purchased the rest of the series up to The Snowman. I will probably finish the series in the future, but it definitely will not be on the top of my list.

[klib315 · Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen]

Great mystery writing.

[tcwriter · Bewertung: 3 von 5 Sternen]

A fun book, but a somewhat predictable one. I thought it could been written much tighter, and the constant switching between 1944 and contemporary times got a little irritating.

Still, the lead character (Harry Hole) was interesting and offered up some depth, and in truth, it was Hole's interactions with others that made this interesting, not the mystery itself.

[margase · Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen]

REcommended by the Mysterious Bookshop, it was really good, I was prepared not to like it as I'm a little tired od overdrinking policemen ( Rankin's Rebus etc)

[sarah1e · Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen]

I wasn't immediately drawn into this story. I felt like maybe something was missing from the translation to English. I wound up really enjoying it - In the end it was solid, though not entirely resolved. I appreciated the ending and how it stands on its own. This book was a gift and I didn't know the author or that it was a series, so I'm looking forward to starting another of these books now.

[reading_fox · Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen]

Jo Hasbro's never goin got be the next Stieg Larsson, but this was a readable enough detective story set in Norway. Apparently third in a series featuring the lead star Harry Hole, it's perfectly fine as a standalone, and doesn't seem to refer back to any previous events.The opening third is very confusing. A series of flashabcks to 1944 interweave with year 2000 police procedurals. There is an awful lot of jumping around between characters. It's very difficult to follow who is doing what, or why. The entire flashback series might have worked better as a single chunk. Eventually we learn that a group of Norwiegans proundly served in the German army together as a unit, and although they never shared today's far-right politics, their experiences did leave them marked for life. Menawhile recently promoted Harry finds life difficult and he fails to summon enthusiasm for his new task of investigating the far right skinheads who are apparently looking for trouble when Eid falls on Norway's independance day. He'd much prefer to trace rumours of an imported rifle that may mean an assassination attempt is planned. However without any evidence, or motive or target his bosses prefer 'real' work. The only brightspot in his life is a chance meeting with a single mum, who manages to retain an air of fun around her.Harry's not far off being a Philip Marlowe - drinks smokes and grumbles at women. Reasonably good inutition, but little in the way of painstaking investigation. He's much assissted by a female colleague who is even better at the intutition than he is. The various cahracters weave around a lot, but by the last third of the book all the strands are together and Nesbo manages to tell a decent tale. Far less graphic violence or sex than in Stieg Larson, but the same sort of gritty atmosphere and vaguely corrupted / dirty politics. I might try and read the first ones in the series if I can find their english translations. However it won't be a high priority for me.

[jwrudn · Bewertung: 3 von 5 Sternen]

I am happy to read that others beside me were not thrilled by this book. It was ok, but the plot was too convoluted: multiple personality disorder, Nazi's, world war flashbacks, and so on. Despite the short chapters, the book did not have much momentum. And the denouement was disappointing. I would read another Harry Hole book, but I wish it would be half as long.

[c.archer · Bewertung: 5 von 5 Sternen]

I enjoyed this book immensely. It was a little confusing since I didn't know the main character (this was my first Harry Hole book), but the plot was interesting and engaging, and I eventually was hooked. I fell for Harry. He is unique character but somewhat similar to Columbo with a touch of Dirty Harry. There were moments of heart ache, like the description of what happens to his friend and colleague, Ellen. The love stories within the book were also quite touching and heartfelt. And making the present hook up with a past from WWII certainly added my level of interest. It had a bit of everything that adds up to a really good story. The only critique I had was the difficulty in keeping the characters straight since some of the names were similar, and the story jumped from present to past and back very quickly. Anyone enjoying a good detective story would find this book worth checking out. It has intrigue and action that are equal to the best, and as an added bonus also has an emotional grab. I can't wait to read more about Harry.

[bhowell_35 · Bewertung: 5 von 5 Sternen]

There are a lot of great Scandinavian thrillers being translated into English, but Redbreast is in a class of it's own. It is truly fabulous. I cannot recommend it highly enough and from the other reviews it seems that Librarything readers agree.The novel moves back and forth in time from WWII and the present. The history of Norway's occcupation during the war and the Norwegian soldiers who fought with the Germans at the eastern front is fascinating. Inspector Harry Hole is a great character. This book has some similarites to the Stieg Larsson Swedish thrillers in that it deals with present neo-Nazi activities in Norway and Sweden and the history of collaberation with the Germans during the war.

[tmannix_3 · Bewertung: 3 von 5 Sternen]

Why is there so much great mystery writing from Scandinavia? Here's another one--this time from Norway. The protagonist, Harry Hole (a police detective in Oslo), is just the kind of flawed character I like. And the story is appealingly complex drawing on the past (WWII-era anti-Russian, pro-German activities) and the present (neo-Nazism). Great characters. The start of a love story. A gut-wrenching surprise midway in the book. And there's an unsolved plot line that makes me want to get started immediately on the next book.

[shawnd_72 · Bewertung: 3 von 5 Sternen]

This mystery set mostly in Oslo, Norway, takes the reader back and forth from the present to WWII Eastern Front where a number of native Norwegians in the fighting force deploy to the Eastern Front once Norway is occupied by Germany. Detective Harry Hole is promoted for political reasons early in the story, and as a result has the freedom to work on a case with nefariousness in many characters. An extremely rare assassin's rifle seems to be smuggled into Norway, and that sparks Hole on to unraveling a mystery of who's who among a small squad of WWII relics.The book is agonizingly slow in the first 50+ pages, almost to the point of being unreadable to anyone but a Harry Hole fan. The author perhaps doesn't realize that in the middle and late parts of the book he can jump quickly from thread to thread, however attempting this in the beginning, using pronouns, with no background, makes for a mostly wasted set of pages. This book could be a lot better with less jumping around in the beginning--and even at the faster paced ending no one is going to call the book 'taut'. The mystery and solution are cleverly written. The book touches on the evolution of Norway from a monarchy to Nazi-ism back to a monarchy and how the ideals of Nazi-ism uncomfortably touch on politics and immigration in Norway today. The book includes skinhead Neo-Nazi's and the required 'secret financier' enabling the skinheads to pursue their unrest.

[minges_1 · Bewertung: 5 von 5 Sternen]

Great Nordic Crime thriller, against the backdrop of Norwegian guilt over capitulation to the Germans during WWII. Goes back and forth between the present and WWII to slowly add to our understanding of the context of the crimes. Briskly written but not a simple novel. The cop, Harry Hole, is a modern day Norwegian, operating according to his own quirky code of justice. Very suspenseful and with some interesting digressions such as discussions of bird behavior. Sometimes a bit too complex--hard to keep track of all the characters but that is a minimal flaw far outweighed by the overall excitement of the book. Won the best Nordic Crime Novel and Norwegian book clubs voted it the best Norwegian Crime Novel ever written.

[riverwillow · Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen]

A well-written mystery which kept me engaged from the first page to the last. Dark and filled with shocks, twists and turns, and certain unresolved plot developments, which will hopefully be resolved later in the series, I will definitely be reading more of these books.

[hanneri_1 · Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen]

The book was a lot different than the first two. I think it had more depth, less horrid scenes and much more romanticism (of old times and new). The little surprises the author uses fascinates me the most. For example what Uriah did to the tree and how was explained later. The format with the messages to Helen's answering machine after her death was brilliant. The truth is that it was a little slow at the beginning probably because of the narration of Uriah in the WWII. The plot is really complex and you don't get to guess the killer. I think the ending was perfect. Some loose ends to pick up on next installment. Finally the way Nesbo portrayed the political situation in his country during the WWII and the consequences afterwards is captivating and I respected the fact that he took no stand on the matter but left the reader make his own conclusions.

[leslie398 · Bewertung: 3 von 5 Sternen]

While longer than I typically like in a mystery, this Norwegian thriller/mystery kept me engaged and guessing right up to the end and did so without drowning me in depressing grit and gore so common in many contemporary mysteries. So why didn't I rate it higher than 3 stars? Primarily because of the fact that after 500+ pages, certain aspects of the plot were left unresolved and I don't like that in my mysteries. To be specific, I HATE the fact that the author has told us that Tom Waaler is a corrupt cop responsible for the death of Harry's former partner Ellen and then left that in the wind. No suspicions, nothing. Why show this to us then? To make sure that we read future books? It wasn't strictly necessary for this book...

[elizajane_1 · Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen]

I've read almost all the Harry Hole books and now that I've read #1 & 2am going back to fill in a couple I missed. This one, admittedly, did get off to a very slow start and I wondered if it would ever turn into a real thriller. But it did, and how! The beginning has alternating chapters of Harry in the present with Norwegian soldiers fighting on the WWII Eastern front for the Nazis. Very interesting perspective. This is the book that features Harry's partner Ellen and it was great to get to know her and here is the beginning of his romance with Rakel. So though having a slow start, this is the defining book that really sets up the running story line that continues on from here. I've read the next book so will be finishing up with #5.

[y2ash · Bewertung: 5 von 5 Sternen]

There is something about these Norwegian and Swedish writers that is so fantastically dark that it is absolutely amazing. The Redbreast is technically the third installment of the Detective Harry Hole series but the first two have not been translated in English yet so it's the first one for me.

This story was absolutely phenomenal. Det. Harry Hole is an awesome character with insecurties and strengths. I am going to love when the first two novels are translated into English because I can get more depth into his psyche. Nesbo crafted a very complex story with many POVs yet it was surprisingly simplistic. Not in a bad way either.

I loved this book and I cannot wait to read the next one.

[jcambridge_4 · Bewertung: 5 von 5 Sternen]

This is the first I have read of Jo Nesbo's books and I must say I am as taken in by his characters and plots as I was with Stieg Larsson. This particular Harry Hole mystery had some history about Norway and the Nazis that made it particularly interesting and informative. A bit chilling when you consider the horrible events of Summer 2011 when so many young people were murdered by a madman, who professed pro-Nazi beliefs. Readers will not be disappointed in the writing or the plot.

[es135_1 · Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen]

Harry Hole is, yet another, great detective by a foreign crime writer's American debut. A lot of the reviews compare Nesbo to Steig Larson, but Nesbo's characters and stories are not really comparable. He managed to blend WWII history with a modern day thriller that will keep reader's guessing until the very end. Surprisingly, this translated novel contains one of the most beautifully written descriptions of a character dealing with death. Overall, this is an engaging thriller that readers are sure to enjoy.

[cathymoore_1 · Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen]

In the past I have really struggled with Scandinavian fiction. I don't enjoy Larsson or Mankell, so I was ready to write this off before I'd started it. I'll admit the first hundred or so pages were a bit of a battle of wills. There are lots of characters to get to know and lots of flashbacks to WW2 to keep the reader on her toes. Then, just as I was getting a bit bogged down it all started to come together and by the end I almost couldn't put it down. Nesbo's flawed detective Harry Hole reminds a lot of Rankin's Inspector Rebus. The unfamiliar Norwegian geography was a slight struggle until I found the map inside the front cover (oops!) I'm actually looking forward to the next one.

[mdshrk1 · Bewertung: 5 von 5 Sternen]

This one was a little predictable, but I needed to read it to get the back story on Harry Hole. Nesbo is a good writer, and almost makes me want to learn Norwegian.

[dgmlrhodes · Bewertung: 5 von 5 Sternen]

Great story! This was my second Jo Nesbo book and even though they were from the same series, they were completely different. This story was even better than the first with a rich, complex plot and characters. Great story well worth the read.