“I have always been fond of farting”
Click here to read the interview with Jo in Metro UK where he talks about his children’s series Doctor Proctor and also about his crime novels and Scorsese’s adaptation of The Snowman.
The Leopard, Harry Hole #8, is No. 8 on the French paperback list!
We recently asked Jo to put together a list of his five favorite movies,
any genre, so first out is Jo’s “four really good movies about sports”:
1. Moneyball
2. eh …
3. well … no.
4. OK, then; if chess is a sport and a documentary a movie; Bobby
Fischer vs. The World.
Phantom is No. 1 on Finland’s official bestseller list for the second consecutive month and The Bat is No. 2 on the official paperback list!
Jo Nesbø’s The Bat, the first installment in the Harry Hole series, is currently No. 1 on the official Croatian bestseller list for hardcover fiction.
Headhunters premiered in New York and Los Angeles on friday last week and the movie has been getting great reviews in the press:
“A thrilling, over-the-top criminal ride … Taken from the fiendishly plotted novel by Jo Nesbo, one of Scandinavia’s top mystery writers, Headhunters is a dark adult entertainment, a wild and bloody adrenaline rush of a movie that deals in gleeful grotesqueness and over-the-top implausibilities.
Los Angeles Times (US)
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“It’s on my short list of the most enjoyable movies in recent memory. Smart, funny, scary and surprising – a one-of-a-kind thriller.”
Wall Street Journal (US)
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“The film has some fairly grisly violence, but also considerable humor and the sort of intricate, thought-through storytelling you’d expect from Hitchcock or the Coen brothers.”
NPR (US)
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The Snowman, the seventh novel featuring Harry Hole, is No. 1 on Iceland’s official bestseller list!
Headhunters, the movie adaptation of Jo’s stand-alone novel of the same name, hits its mark to become UK’s highest grossing foreign language release of 2012.
The movie will have it’s US openings this Friday! It will be shown at The Landmark 12 in Los Angeles and at Sunshine Cinema 5 and Empire 25 Theaters in New York City.
Click here for more info.
The film adaptation of Jo’s stand-alone novel Headhunters premiered in the UK on April 6th and the movie has been getting great reviews in the UK press:
“If you like Scandi-noir, you’ll relish this rollicking adaptation of the Jo Nesbø-thriller … This is fast paced and amusingly gruesome.”
The Times
“Nesbø’s 2008 novel Headhunters provides the diabolical inspiration for this edge-of-seat thriller”
The Post
“Expertly delivered, and hugely enjoyable”
Sunday Herald
Phantom, the ninth novel in the series featuring Police Detective Harry Hole, is No. 1 on the Finnish bestseller list.
Jo will speak at BookExpo America on June 5th. BookExpo begins June 4 at the Javits Center in New York. For tickets and additional info, please click here.
Phantom, Harry Hole #9, is No. 1 on the Swedish hardcover list as well as No. 1 on the audio book list, both for the second consecutive month.
Canada.com has published a great interview with Jo on their website, please click here to read it!
Phantom, the ninth installment in Jo Nesbø’s Harry Hole series, was just published in the UK and Ireland, and already this week the novel entered the official UK and Irish bestseller lists at No. 2.
Jo Nesbø’s The Redeemer, the sixth installment in the series where Harry Hole chases a faceless contract killer from former Yugoslavia, is No. 3 on the Basque Bestseller list.