In the latest installment of Work Mode, best-selling Norwegian author Jo Nesbo discusses the unstructured process behind his dark creations.
The hero of many of Norwegian crime writer Jo Nesbø’s novels, the dissolute detective Harry Hole, witnesses all manner of horrifying violent deaths. One victim in a case Hole works on is Superglued to a bathtub and made to drown as the water rises; another has her face torn to shreds by an exploding metal ball put in her mouth. Despite the creatively ghastly crimes that come from Nesbø’s imagination, he’s not at all scary in person.
