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Blood on Snow by Jo Nesbø
2.0

This was my first novel by Jo Nesbo, and all I can say is: When will this be a movie?
It practically read like a screenplay, and I could only picture the different leading men that would play Olav's part. Liam Neeson's growling voice practically begs itself off the page. I'm sure Nesbo wrote the novel with that idea.
Poor Olav doesn't see the true culprit even though she's less than a mile away. And I didn't just give anything away either, dear Reader, since you'll be bashing your head against the front of his small novel too. I think it's supposed to be like that, but the plot line was flimsy enough (gratuitous violence and a thin mystery) that it frustratingly became a distraction. With a deeper mystery and more fleshed out characters (which would've added at least 120 pages to the novel if not more) than I might not have cared I knew how Olav would go down right from the beginning. But why do I want to look under the surface if the top layer is clear?
Let's sit back and let this one be a blockbuster.