![]() He adds a local prostitute to his list of conquests. He converts a key witness, Inger’s fellow barmaid Birgitta Enquist, into his bedmate. Fans of Harry’s later adventures ( The Redeemer, 2013, etc.) will wait with bated breath to see how long it takes him to break every rule in the book. Neil McCormack, head of the Surry Hills Crime Squad, explains to Harry that although he’s been paired with Aboriginal detective Andrew Kensington as a professional courtesy, he’s not to take a leading role, not to make any inquiries on his own, and not to interfere with McCormack’s chain of command. ![]() It’s an unusual debut since the very first page finds Harry clearing passport control in Sydney, half a world away from his native Oslo, from which he’s improbably been sent to observe the Australian investigation into the probable rape and undoubted strangling of Inger Holter, who once hosted a Norwegian children’s TV show but had been working in a Sydney bar when she died. Inspector Harry Hole’s 1997 debut finally follows its seven successors into English translation. ![]()
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