Ellroy Reads – The Son by Jo Nesbø

For the latest episode of Ellroy Reads, I delve deep in to Scandi-Noir with a look at Jo Nesbø’s modern classic The Son.

I talk about the connections between Ellroy and Nesbø. I also share some insights into Nesbø’s appearance at Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in Harrogate in 2012, in which Nesbø spoke at length about his father’s service in the German Army during World War Two. Nesbø was shocked to discover this hidden side of his father’s past, and it has had an enormous impact on his writing ever since.

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