Netflix’s ‘Detective Hole’ Officially Returns This Week

Book adaptations are all the rage nowadays, with streaming services like Apple TV and Prime Video cornering different genres. The former has excelled in crime thrillers, while the latter has the romance genre figured out. Adapting books carries a certain risk because it could clash with the image viewers have of the character, but when it works, it is great. Netflix hasn’t been left behind and occasionally debuts a book adaptation, although the streamer doesn’t have a genre lane.

Earlier this year, it debuted the TV adaptation of Jo Nesbø‘s famed detective Harry Hole, and the risk paid off. The series was a hit with critics and fans, scoring a 91% on Rotten Tomatoes from professional reviewers, and Detective Hole spent four weeks on Netflix’s top ten non-English shows. The first season was based on Nesbø’s fifth book, The Devil’s Star. In it, Harry (Tobias Santelmann) investigates crimes while dealing with a colleague he deeply distrusts. Detective Tom Waaler (Joel Kinnaman) has started breaking the law instead of upholding it, and Harry wants to bring him to justice.

Even though there are more books in the Harry Hole series, Netflix has not yet expressed interest in more seasons. But for fans who still crave more, a new Detective Hole release is officially coming on November 5. Vintage Publishing has released the fourteenth book in the Nesbo series, titled Kill Shot. The 544-page thriller is available to buy online for about $13.50. Seán Kinsella translated the English copy. Kill Shot is also available as an audiobook, published by Random House and narrated by Sean Barrett. The hardcopy version is expected to be released next year on February 23 and costs $35.

A great detective is really just a personality with a method attached,
which is why we keep remaking the same four of them. Here is yours, what it says about you, and the
case for them being the best in the business.

You let people think you are not a threat and then you simply
never go away. Columbo is the only major detective show that tells you who did it in the
first ten minutes, because the pleasure was never the puzzle, it was watching a rich man
slowly realise he is in trouble.

• You are underestimated constantly, and you have stopped minding because it keeps
  working.
• The show invented the inverted detective format for television and nobody has bettered
  it since.
• Peter Falk won four Emmys for the part and played him across five decades.
• Your flaw is that one more question is rarely one more question.

You are the most interesting person in the room and you know
exactly how to use it. Rian Johnson built Blanc as a gentleman detective who is also an
outsider everywhere he goes, which lets him be charming at people who would never otherwise
talk to him.

• You read a room in seconds and you are not above performing a little to speed things up.
• Rian Johnson was nominated for the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for Knives Out in
  2020.
• Wake Up Dead Man arrived on Netflix in December, making three Blanc films in six years.
• Your risk is enjoying the performance so much that people stop taking the point
  seriously.

Everybody tells you everything, and you have never once asked
them to. Jessica Fletcher is a crime novelist from a small town in Maine who is so warm and
so obviously trustworthy that suspects confess to her essentially as a social courtesy.

• You are the person friends call first, and you have a frankly alarming amount of
  information about everybody.
• Angela Lansbury was nominated for the Emmy twelve times for this role and never won
  once.
• The show ran twelve seasons, and Jamie Lee Curtis is now bringing the character back.
• Your flaw is that being told everything is only a gift if you know what to do with it.

You expect to be lied to and you are almost never disappointed.
Chandler wrote Marlowe as a man with a rigid private code in a city that has none, which is
why he takes the case, solves it, gets nothing out of it and takes the next one.

• You are the most cynical person your friends know and the one they would call at four in
  the morning.
• Bogart played him in The Big Sleep in 1946 and the plot is famously impossible to
  follow, which matters not at all.
• Elliott Gould, Robert Mitchum and Liam Neeson have all taken the part, and every version
  says something about its decade.
• Your weakness is a code so strict that it mostly punishes the person holding it.

What Is ‘Jo Nesbo’s Kill Shot’ About?

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The jump from the events in the fifth book to the fourteenth finds Harry at a different stage in life, no longer a detective. There is a new killer in Oslo, and they are staging murders inspired by iconic movie scenes with escalating shock. Evidence points towards the city’s biggest film set, and Oleg, Harry’s stepson, is investigating. Harry knows he should keep his distance, but instincts he’s sharpened throughout the years keep pulling him in, so he finds himself working with his team again. It is a race against time to stop the killer before he racks up more bodies, but Harry is struggling with separating the professional from the personal. Meanwhile, the killer is saving their best scene for last. The book features a final twist that will leave readers gobsmacked.

Jo Nesbø’s Killshot is now available for purchase. Stream all nine episodes of Detective Hole on Netflix and stay tuned to Collider for more updates.

Jo Nesbø’s Detective Hole