Jo Nesbo

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  • Bibliography:
    33 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1997
  • Latest Book:
    February 2025
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About the Author

Jo Nesbø is a musician, songwriter, economist and author. His first crime novel featuring Harry Hole was published in Norway in 1997 and was an instant hit, winning the Glass Key Award for best Nordic crime novel (an accolade shared with Peter Høeg, Henning Mankell and Stieg Larsson).

Full Series List in Order

Blood on Snow

1 - Blood on Snow (Apr-2015)
2 - Midnight Sun (Feb-2016)

Doctor Proctor

1 - Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder (Jan-2010)
2 - Bubble in the Bathtub (Jan-2011)
3 - Who Cut the Cheese? (Jan-2012)
4 - Doctor Proctor and the Great Gold Robbery (Mar-2014)
5 - The Magical Fruit (Nov-2013)
6 - Silent (But Deadly) Night (Oct-2017)

A Harry Hole Mystery

1 - The Bat Man (1997)
2 - The Cockroaches (1998)
3 - The Redbreast (2000)
4 - Nemesis (2002)
5 - The Devil's Star (Nov-2003)
6 - The Redeemer (Nov-2005)
7 - The Snowman (Nov-2007)
8 - The Leopard (2009)
9 - Phantom (Oct-2012)
10 - Police (Oct-2013)
11 - The Thirst (Jan-2018)
12 - Knife (Jul-2019)
13 - Killing Moon (Jun-2023)

Book List in Order: 33 titles

  • The Bat Man

    • / Law Enforcement
    • Buy Buy
    A Harry Hole Mystery - 1

    The electrifying first appearance of Jo Nesbø’s detective, Harry Hole. Inspector Harry Hole of the Oslo Crime Squad is dispatched to Sydney to observe a murder case. Harry is free to offer assistance, but he has firm instructions to stay out ...

  • The Cockroaches

    • / Law Enforcement
    • Buy Buy
    A Harry Hole Mystery - 2

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this installment of the New York Times bestselling series, Inspector Harry Hole heads to Thailand to investigate the murder of a Norweigian ambassador."Nesbø never lets a page go by without making characters and s...

  • The Redbreast

    • / Police Procedural
    • Buy Buy
    A Harry Hole Mystery - 3

    Detective Harry Hole embarrassed the force, and for his sins he's been reassigned to mundane surveillance tasks. But while monitoring neo-Nazi activities in Oslo, Hole is inadvertently drawn into a mystery with deep roots in Norway's dark past -- whe...

  • Nemesis

    • / Police Procedural
    • Buy Buy
    A Harry Hole Mystery - 4

    Grainy CCTV footage shows a man walking into a bank and putting a gun to a cashier's head. He tells her to count to twenty-five. When he doesn't get his money in time, she is executed. Detective Harry Hole is assigned to the case. While Harry's gi...

  • The Devil's Star

    A Harry Hole Mystery - 5

    In the heat of a sweltering Oslo summer, a young woman is found murdered in her flat--with one of her fingers cut off and a tiny red star-shaped diamond placed under her eyelid. An off-the-rails alcoholic barely holding on to his job, Detective Harry...

  • The Redeemer

    A Harry Hole Mystery - 6

    A 14-year old girl is raped at one of the Salvation Army summer camps. Twelve years later, at a Christmas concert in a square in Oslo, a Salvation Army soldier is executed by a man in the crowd. A press photographer has caught a suspect on one of the...

  • The White Hotel

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

  • The Snowman

    A Harry Hole Mystery - 7

    The snow in the yard reflected enough light for him to make out the snowman down below . . . The moon slid from behind a cloud. . . . The pebble-eyes were gleaming. And they were not staring into the house. They were looking up. Up here. One night...

  • Headhunters

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    Roger Brown is a corporate headhunter, and he's a master of his profession. But one career simply can't support his luxurious lifestyle and his wife's fledgling art gallery. At an art opening one night he meets Clas Greve, who is not only the perfect...



  • The Leopard

    • / Police Procedural
    • Buy Buy
    A Harry Hole Mystery - 8

    INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Meaty, gripping, full of tantalizing twists” (Associated Press), this installment of the international bestselling series brings Inspector Harry Hole back from Hong Kong hot on the trail of a serial killer.Inspector ...

  • Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder

    Doctor Proctor - 1

    Nilly is new to the neighborhood, but is quick to make friends: Doctor Proctor, an eccentric professor; and Lisa, who is teased by the twin terrors Truls and Trym. Nilly and Lisa help Doctor Proctor develop his latest invention, a powder that makes y...

  • Bubble in the Bathtub

    Doctor Proctor - 2

    DOCTOR PROCTOR has invented some crazy things. Like the powder that can make you fart (for fun). Or makes you fart so hard it blasts you up in the air! The newest invention is a time-traveling bathtub. Just fill the tub with bubbles and jump in, ...

  • Who Cut the Cheese?

    Doctor Proctor - 3

    This time the adventure includes aliens, disappearing socks, an American Idol style talent show, and a plot to takeover the world . . . nothing that some well-timed farts can't help fix....

  • Phantom

    A Harry Hole Mystery - 9

    When Harry Hole moved to Hong Kong, he thought he was escaping the traumas of his life in Oslo and his career as a detective for good. But now, the unthinkable has happened -- Oleg, the boy he helped raise, has been arrested for killing a man. Har...

  • Police

    A Harry Hole Mystery - 10

    Harry Hole returns--or does he?--in a terrifyingly paced, vertiginous new roller coaster of a thriller by the internationally best-selling author of The Snowman and The Redeemer. The police urgently need Harry Hole . . . A killer is stalking Oslo...

  • The Magical Fruit

    Doctor Proctor - 5

    Doctor Proctor, Nilly, and Lisa take a sporty approach to saving the day in this fart-tastically funny adventure from New York Times bestselling author Jo Nesbø. When a Russian billionaire robs the Norwegian Gold Reserve and melts the last remain...

  • Time-Travel Bath Bomb

  • Doctor Proctor and the Great Gold Robbery

    Doctor Proctor - 4

    When a Russian billionaire robs the Norwegian Gold Reserve and melts the last remaining gold bar into the Premier Soccer League trophy, it’s up to Doctor Proctor, Nilly, and Lisa to get the trophy and save Norway.

    But with a failed brea...

  • The Son

    The author of the best-selling Harry Hole series now gives us an electrifying stand-alone novel set inside Oslo’s maze of especially venal, high-level corruption. Sonny Lofthus is a strangely charismatic and complacent young man. Sonny’s been...



  • Blood on Snow

    Blood on Snow - 1

    From the internationally acclaimed author of the Harry Hole novels -- a fast, tight, darkly lyrical stand-alone novel that has at its center the perfectly sympathetic antihero: an Oslo contract killer who draws us into an unexpected meditation on dea...

  • Midnight Sun

    Blood on Snow - 2

    The internationally acclaimed author of "Blood on Snow" and the Harry Hole novels now gives us the tightly wound tale of a man running from retribution, a renegade hitman who goes to ground far above the Arctic circle, where the never-setting sun mig...

  • Silent (But Deadly) Night

    Doctor Proctor - 6

    Doctor Proctor, Nilly, and Lisa try to save the holidays in this fart-tastically funny adventure from New York Times bestselling author Jo Nesbø. When the king of Norway sells the rights to Christmas to Mr. Thrane, it looks like the holidays aren...

  • Can Doctor Proctor Save Christmas?

    Please Read Notes: Brand New, International Softcover Edition, Printed in black and white pages, minor self wear on the cover or pages, Sale restriction may be printed on the book, but Book name, contents, and author are exactly same as Hardcover Edi...

  • The Thirst

    A Harry Hole Mystery - 11

    In this electrifying new thriller from the author of Police and The Snowman, Inspector Harry Hole hunts down a serial murderer who targets his victims ... on Tinder. The murder victim, a self-declared Tinder addict. The one solid clue -- fragment...

  • The End of the World. Maybe.

  • Macbeth

    Shakespeare’s dark and tragic play retold in a heart-pounding New York Times bestselling thriller from the author of The Snowman and The Thirst. Set in the 1970s in a run-down, rainy industrial town, Jo Nesbo's Macbeth centers around a poli...

  • Knife

    A Harry Hole Mystery - 12

    Brilliant, audaciously rogue police officer, Harry Hole from The Snowman and The Thirst, is back and in the throes of a new, unanticipated rage--once again hunting the murderer who has haunted his entire career. Harry Hole is not in a good place. ...

  • The Kingdom

    #1 New York Times best-selling author Jo Nesbø delivers an electrifying stand-alone novel about a dark family secret that tests the limits of brotherly love. In a rural village deep in the mountains, mechanic Roy leads a quiet, simple life, but w...

  • The Confession



  • The Jealousy Man and Other Stories

    #1 New York Times bestselling author Jo Nesbo's story "The Jealousy Man" is now a major motion picture Killer Heat starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley, and Richard Madden " from Amazon MGM Studios and streaming on Prime Video.From “t...

  • Killing Moon

    A Harry Hole Mystery - 13

    In the thirteenth novel in the New York Times best-selling series, brilliant rogue police investigator Harry Hole is back, this time as an outsider assembling his own team to help find a serial killer.Harry has gone to Los Angeles to drink himself to...

  • The Night House

    From the internationally best-selling author, a chilling fresh spin on the classic horror novel • When the voices call, don't answer.“In The Night House, the horror begins immediately. And it only keeps calling from there.” -- Josh Malerma...

  • Blood Ties

    From the modern master of Nordic suspense comes an explosive novel about a community in crisis and two brothers on the verge of losing everything they’ve worked so hard to achieve.By all accounts, Carl and Roy Opgard are doing quite well for themse...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jo Nesbo has published 33 books.

The next book by Jo Nesbo, Blood Ties, will be published in February 2025.

The first book by Jo Nesbo, The Bat Man, was published in January 1997.

Yes. Jo Nesbo has 3 series.
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