Nemesis is the fourth instalment of Jo Nesbo's Harry Hole detective series and I must say this series keeps getting better. In Nemesis, Harry is working to clear his name when one of his previous girlfriends is found dead, while also working in a parallel storyline on a series of bank robberies/murders.

I do find that I have to keep my wits about me while reading Nesbo's books, often needing to thumb back a few chapters to reread bits and pieces that may have seemed insignificant at the time. It's a bit like being a detective while reading - taking note of seemingly trivial details and filing them away as relevant points of interest.

For me, Harry is a loveable rogue of a cop - full of integrity even though some of his methods are not by the book. I'm liking the Tom Waaler thing which has been woven through the last book Redbreast, this one and is clearly going to be a theme in the next book. If you ask me, Tom is the Nemesis - perhaps this is another play on words that I need to file away in my mind when i start reading Nesbo's next story.