Vintage Midnight Sun: The sun never sets. The chase never ends (Blood on Snow 2)

Como siempre Jo Nesbo crea una historia entretenida, con un final inesperado y que agradará a todo al que le guste la novela negra de calidad

I’ve been to the area of Norway within the Arctic Circle and can’t think of a better place to hide if a sinister someone is looking for you. But, as Jo Nesbo writes, if a man in Oslo called The Fisherman wants to find you and settle a score, trying to hide is futile. Jon Hansen, calling himself Ulf, is the fellow trying to hide and is befriended by a woman named Lea and her ten year old son, Knut. Lea provides an abandoned hunting cabin for Ulf and he keeps a sharp eye for other visitors from the south who might be looking for him. Lea’s husband has been lost at sea while fishing and she takes solace in her religion, Laestadianism, a conservative Lutheran revival movement started in Lapland in the middle of the 19th century. She is clearly not interested in a relationship with Ulf. Ulf makes friends with Knut and a male deer who hangs around Ulf’s cabin while looking for food. The deer even plays a dramatic role near the end to ensure Ulf’s safety, a clever plot device by Nesbo that I didn’t see coming. This book’s cover labels it a novel but I would judge it a novella. It’s short, filled with tension, and moves at a steady pace. I could have easily finished reading it in one day instead of the two days I took.

La storia è molto bella e non scontata. La lettura è facile ed avvincente. Il libro è corto ma lascia col fiato sospeso fino alla fine.

I read all the Harry Hole books that had been translated into English and loved the series. So have bought the last two books Blood on the Snow and Midnight Sun. Midnight Sun was a good and uf my memory is right it ihas reference back to Blood on the Snow. I buy my books and oay the hardcover price as I appreciate holding a book and reading it. But an starting to feel thathe books are getting shorter but the price dies not reflect that. Blood on the Snow should have been advertised as a short story. So though I have loved reading the books I am starting to feel that I an being taking advantage of by paying just for the authors name.

To start, I buy and read everything available by Nesbo,books and DVDs alike..This book I find not up to his highest standards..There is much mood music, desolation and philosophy, but we are given much of Jon the Fixer, wonderfully introduced in "Blood on Snow", as distracted from much action in the God awful most North that Norway can offer..with too little to do or share.. Yes, he must stay vigilant to remain free from the killers hired by The Fisherman to do him in. But his decision to hole up in a cabin known to everyone in the village and easily found makes little sense.. The one and only scene of confrontation prompts the question whether Nesbo or The Revenant was first to come up with the hide hiding place..The bad guys easily give up, leaving Jon and them to live to see another day and to resurface in the next Nesbo novel.. So with not much else to do but visit town, such as it is, Jon explores relationships and introspection.. So we have a wildly inconvenient love story, which becomes the major focus to a man on the lamb..Why would a man skilled in killing and trusting necessarily only in his own devices and those impulses alone decide to fall in love again, which he tells us repeatedly is a constant event and cause of regret, always..?? So to me we are reading a fragment which in content and tone is no more than a pause between the action.. Nesbo always writes wonderfully, but this book features style over suspense, his stock in trade..