Jo Nesbø Books in Order

Norwegian detective Harry Hole is sent to Sydney after a young Norwegian woman is murdered there. Working with local police, he uncovers a series of killings and confronts a clever predator as well as his own drinking problem.

When Norway's ambassador to Thailand is found stabbed in a Bangkok motel, Harry is dispatched to quietly help the Thai police. The case draws him into embassy secrets, seedy bars and a trail of violence that reaches back to Oslo.

Assigned to monitor neo Nazi activity, Harry stumbles on an imported sniper rifle and a plot with roots in Norway's Second World War history. As he follows the clues, an aging ex soldier and a planned assassination come into sharp focus.

A daylight bank robbery leaves a teller dead and almost no useful evidence. At the same time, Harry's former lover is found shot in what looks like suicide, and he becomes a suspect, forcing him to solve both cases to save himself.

Oslo is terrorised by a killer who leaves a tiny diamond shaped like a five pointed star at each crime scene. Harry is forced to partner with a rival detective he does not trust, while the city braces for the next attack.

A Salvation Army officer is shot at a packed Christmas market, apparently by a professional hit man. Harry's hunt for the shooter leads through the Army's inner politics, Croatian war scars and a tangled story of guilt, faith and revenge.

New to his neighbourhood, Nilly befriends brainy Lisa and eccentric inventor Doctor Proctor, who has created a powder that produces huge, odourless farts. When greedy adults and bullies try to steal it, the trio use science and mischief to protect the invention.

After the first snowfall, a married woman disappears and a snowman appears outside her house wearing her scarf. Harry links the case to a string of missing mothers and realises Norway may have its first serial killer.

Doctor Proctor's latest creation is a time travelling bathtub powered by special soap. After a romantic rescue mission goes wrong, Nilly and Lisa must chase him through history to reunite him with his lost love and repair the damage they have caused.

Roger Brown is Norway's most successful corporate headhunter, but his salary cannot fund his lifestyle. Moonlighting as an art thief, he targets a candidate who owns a lost Rubens painting, only to discover his supposed victim is far more dangerous than he is.

Two women are found dead with mysterious puncture wounds, and Harry is dragged back from exile to help the investigation. Following a sadistic killer from Oslo to a remote mountain lodge, he uncovers a conspiracy that powerful people would rather keep buried.

Everyone in Oslo is obsessed with a televised singing contest, and Nilly and Lisa are the only ones who notice viewers acting strangely. With Doctor Proctor's help, they uncover a mind control plot that could spell the end of the world unless a silent but deadly plan saves the day.

Years after leaving the police, Harry returns to Oslo when Oleg, the boy he helped raise, is jailed for murdering his friend. To clear him, Harry dives into a brutal new drug scene built around a highly addictive substance called violin.

When a Russian billionaire steals Norway's last gold bar and melts it into a famous soccer trophy, Doctor Proctor, Nilly and Lisa travel to London to steal it back. Their rescue attempt involves sewer tunnels, disguises and a chaotic match with a hopeless underdog team.

Someone is killing police officers at the scenes of old unsolved murders, recreating the crimes they once failed to solve. While the department reels and the city panics, those closest to Harry know he may be the only one who can stop it.

Norway's entire gold reserve has shrunk to one bar, and even that is stolen and hidden inside a soccer trophy. Disguised as detectives, grannies and babies, Doctor Proctor, Nilly and Lisa launch an impossible counter heist before the theft is exposed.

Olav is a solitary fixer for an Oslo crime boss whose latest job is to kill his employer's unfaithful wife. Watching her from a rented room, he hesitates, falls in love and makes a choice that turns both the police and the underworld against him.

Sonny Lofthus has spent years in prison, confessing to murders he did not commit in exchange for a steady heroin supply. After learning a devastating truth about his policeman father, he escapes and sets out to punish the corrupt network that ruined his family.

After betraying a ruthless drug king known as the Fisherman, a failed fixer hides in a tiny community in Norway's far north, posing as a hunter. As he bonds with a devout single mother and her son, he waits for the killers he knows are coming.

The king of Norway has sold Christmas to rich businessman Mr Thrane, who decrees that only big spenders may celebrate. Outraged, Doctor Proctor, Lisa and Nilly race to find Santa and reclaim the holiday with the help of time travel, reindeer and fart powder.

After the king sells the rights to Christmas to profit hungry Mr Thrane, anyone who cannot afford huge spending is banned from celebrating. Doctor Proctor, Nilly and Lisa head off to find Santa and restore a fairer version of the holiday for everyone.

A killer is targeting people he meets through dating apps, biting their necks with custom metal teeth and drinking their blood. Harry, now off the force, is pulled back into the hunt when the murders point toward a predator he once let slip away.

In a bleak industrial town in the 1970s, police SWAT commander Macbeth helps intercept a drug shipment and is rewarded with a rapid promotion. Urged on by his ambitious lover, he begins a violent climb through the force that mirrors Shakespeare's tragedy in a modern setting.

Back in Oslo and drinking again, Harry wakes from a blackout covered in blood and with no memory of the night before. When someone close to him is found murdered, he must investigate his own missing hours while tracking a rapist he once put behind bars.

Roy Opgard has stayed in his remote mountain town running a gas station, trying to live quietly with a past full of rumours. When his charming younger brother Carl returns with plans for a luxury hotel, old suspicions and buried family secrets begin to surface.

On a flight from New York to London, a distraught woman tells the stranger beside her that she has hired a discreet firm to arrange her death after her husband's affair. As they talk, she gradually realises the quiet man may be the one sent to kill her.

This collection features twelve dark stories about obsession, betrayal and revenge, including a detective who specialises in jealousy cases, a post pandemic island ruled by the rich, and ordinary people who discover how far they will go when pushed.

Living in Los Angeles and off the force, Harry is drawn back to Oslo when a serial killer starts targeting women linked to a billionaire's party. To save someone who once helped him, he assembles a ragged team and hunts the killer from the outside.

Fourteen year old Richard moves to the town of Ballantyne after his parents die in a fire, then is blamed when classmates vanish in bizarre ways. Convinced something supernatural is at work, he tries to prove his innocence in a story that constantly questions what is real.