The Police

In the last Harry Hole novel, he was shot in the head and left for dead by his girlfriend's son.  So is he alive in this new mystery?  For much of the book, we don't know and if I tell you it will spoil the entire book.  The serial murders in the book seem unsolvable.   Policemen are being lured to the scene of a previously unsolved murder and then murdered themselves in the same manner.  No clues or fibers are left behind. No one knows who will be next.   Hole's fellow detectives Beate Lonn, Stale Aune and Katrine Bratt are in charge of solving the crime.  Can they set a trap for the killer?  Is the killer one of their own?  Could it be the new Chief of Police, Mikael Bellman? 
Nesbo leads us on wild goose chases and down dead end streets.  There are several red herrings.  But this is a book for those of us who love Harry Hole!  Unfortunately I cannot tell you more, you must read the book.  Nesbo's other characters are interesting and well developed.  The villains are sexually perverted and or insane.  And the ending leaves us with a taste of what is to come in the next book.