Knife (Harry Hole)

Harry Hole is back. The brilliant and rogue police officer at the core of eleven previous bestselling novels is once again hunting the mastermind killer who has haunted his entire career.

Harry is in a very bad place. Rakel - the only woman he's ever loved - has kicked him out, permanently. He's drinking again. And though he's been given a chance for a new start with the Oslo Police, it's in the dreaded cold case office. What he wants to be investigating - what he's made to be investigating - are new cases that he suspects have ties to Svein Finne, the most notorious criminal in Norway, the serial murderer and rapist Harry helped put behind bars a decade ago. Now Finne is free. Free and, Harry is certain, taking up where he left off.

But things are about to get worse. When Harry wakes up the morning after a drunken blackout, it's the beginning of what will be a waking nightmare the likes of which even he never could have imagined.