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Harry Hole (Jo Nesbø)

edited 2026-06-19

A complete reading and viewing order for Jo Nesbø's Harry Hole series — thirteen novels following the brilliant, troubled Oslo detective from his first case in Sydney in 1997 through to 2023, plus the 2017 film adaptation of The Snowman and Netflix's 2026 series Detective Hole. Covers the translation-order anomaly: books 1 and 2 were published last in English but belong first in the narrative.

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01NOVEL
1997The debut Harry Hole novel, first published in Norwegian as Flaggermusmannen in 1997 and not translated into English until 2012. Oslo detect…
432 pp
02NOVEL
1998The second Harry Hole novel, published in Norwegian as Kakerlakkene in 1998 and not translated into English until 2013. Harry is sent to Ban…
384 pp
03NOVEL
2000The third Harry Hole novel and the first set primarily in Oslo, published in Norway in 2000 and the second to be translated into English (20…
450 pp
04NOVEL
2002The fourth Harry Hole novel, published in Norway in 2002 and translated into English in 2008. Harry investigates a series of bank robberies…
452 pp
05NOVEL
2003The fifth Harry Hole novel, published in Norway in 2003 and the first to be translated into English (UK 2005, US 2010), making it the origin…
448 pp
06NOVEL
2005The sixth Harry Hole novel, published in Norway in 2005 and translated into English in 2009. A professional assassin kills a Salvation Army…
571 pp
07NOVEL
2007The seventh Harry Hole novel, published in Norway in 2007 and translated into English in 2010. A serial killer leaves snowmen at each crime…
438 pp
08NOVEL
2009The eighth Harry Hole novel, published in Norway in 2009 and translated into English in 2011. Harry is tracked down in a Hong Kong opium den…
624 pp
09NOVEL
2011The ninth Harry Hole novel, published in Norway in 2011 and translated into English in 2012. Harry returns to Oslo when Oleg, the son of his…
611 pp
10NOVEL
2013The tenth Harry Hole novel, published in Norway in 2013 and in English the same year. A serial killer is murdering Oslo police officers at t…
448 pp
11NOVEL
2017The eleventh Harry Hole novel, published in Norway and in English in 2017, four years after Police. Harry has stepped back from active duty…
480 pp
12NOVEL
2019The twelfth Harry Hole novel, published in Norway and in English in 2019. Harry wakes one morning covered in blood with no memory of the pre…
519 pp
13NOVEL
2023The thirteenth Harry Hole novel, published in Norwegian as Blodmåne in August 2022 and in English in May 2023. Harry is working as a private…
496 pp