"Who wrote the ""Harry Hole"" novels?"
Harry Hole Harry Hole Harry Hole is the main character in a series of crime novels written by Norwegian author Jo Nesbø. Hole is a brilliant and driven detective with unorthodox methods, a classic loose cannon in the police force. Critics link the personality of Harry Hole to those of the famous literary detectives: Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, Jules Maigret, and Nero Wolfe, but in the word of Jo Nesbo himself it is to Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch, that he refers as a tribute more than a simple inspiration. Harry Hole is a police officer with the Oslo Crime Squad. He was
Harry Hole origins in the Viking Age. The name is derived from Old Norse "Hólar", the plural form of "hóll", meaning "round and isolated hill". The word is pronounced as two syllables, with stress on the first (hoo-leh), as is implied in "The Bat", where the Australian police call him "Harry Holy". The seventh novel in the series "The Snowman" was adapted as a film in 2017 starring Michael Fassbender as Harry Hole, with Rebecca Ferguson, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Ronan Vibert, and J.K. Simmons. Harry Hole Harry Hole is the main character in a series of crime novels written by Norwegian author Jo