Wolf Hour by Jo Nesbo (Vintage Publishing, 2025)
Crime Fiction
Nordic noir visits Minneapolis as Jo Nesbo’s Wolf Hour (ISBN: 9781787303768, hardback) embroils us in parallel investigations into the same crime. 2016: when a small-time criminal and gun dealer is shot down in the street, all signs point to Tomas Gomez, a quiet man with a mysterious past who has seemingly vanished into thin air. Other murders soon follow, and it appears Gomez is only getting started. 2022, an enigmatic Norwegian man has travelled to the United States to research the Gomez case, in the hopes of writing a book. But as his investigation progresses, the writer’s seemingly neutral position reveals itself to be more complicated than the reader is initially led to believe.