NEMESIS, book four in the Harry Hole series is a complex police procedural that finds the deeply troubled and flawed detective dealing with personal issues (the death of an ex-lover, alcoholism, and a current relationship) while at the same time trying to do his job, in this case, solve a robbery that ended with the murder of the bank teller.

This book is a lot, with so many characters and layers that at the times I found I had to go back and reread to refresh my memory of how a certain person or event fit into the story.

I didn’t start this series from the beginning, but I am glad I went back to the first book to see the development of the characters and their relationships to each other.