After making my way through the first two books due to my internal sense of order, I feel like here is where we finally hit our stride. This book actually won an award for Best Norwegian crime novel and I can see why, although obviously I am reading it in translation. A poor job can make or break a book, though, and this read quite well, so kudos to the translator.

Admittedly, The Redbreast took a bit to get going, but once it did, I HAD to finish it to see what happened. I was a bit at sea about some of the historical bits, not being as familiar with that theatre of war, but it makes sense why Nesbo would not over-explain this to his own countryfolk.