Jo Nesbø's Blog, page 9
January 9, 2013
Phantom No. 1 in The UK And Sweden
Jo Nesbø’s Phantom is the UK’s best selling paperback this week, fighting off stiff competition from the film tie-in editions of The Hobbit and Life of Pi. The novel is also No. 1 on the official Swedish paperback list this month.
December 17, 2012
Jo in The Hollywood Reporter
Jo on ending his Harry Hole Series (Q&A): The best-selling Norwegian author reveals that he’s “close” to a finale for the Oslo homicide detective: “I promise not to resurrect him after.” Jo Nesbo, 52, is supplanting Stieg Larsson as the go-to Scandanivian crime writer with Phantom, his ninth novel about tortured Oslo homicide detective Harry Hole, plus an NBC TV series in the works and several films in development. In L.A. for the fall, the one-time pop star talked with THR about the book, working in Hollywood and what’s on his iPod…
Click here to read the interview in The Hollywood Reporter.
December 5, 2012
Roger Moore Is A Fan Of The Harry Hole series
“I’ve just finished the latest Jo Nesbo thriller Phantom; I love the series of Harry Hole thrillers.”
-Roger Moore
Click here to read the full article in The Independent.
November 23, 2012
Phantom No. 1 in Germany
Jo Nesbø’s Phantom, the ninth installment where Harry Hole sets out on a dangerous investigation that takes him deep into the world of the most lethal drug to ever hit Oslo, is No. 1 on the official paperback list in Germany this week.
November 14, 2012
Jo Nesbø’s I Am Victor to NBC
Former House executive producer Katie Jacobs has teamed with Jo Nesbø for I Am Victor, a drama at NBC based on Nesbø’s forthcoming book. Mark Goffman is writing, with Nesbø, Niclas Salomonsson, Jacobs and Television 360′s Daniel Rappaport and Meghan Lyvers executive producing for Universal TV. RWSG’s Jill Gillett brokered the deal for Salomonsson Agency.
Please click here to read an article about it in Deadline Hollywood.
November 13, 2012
Best Books of the Year
Phantom is on both Amazon and Barnes & Noble’s lists for Best Books of the Year!
November 12, 2012
Jo’s New Stand-Alone To Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. acquired screen rights to The Son, the new stand-alone thriller by Jo Nesbø, in an auction that had keen interest and bids from multiple studios.
The novel focuses on a young man who is in prison because he took the rap for crimes that others committed. The thriller starts as the young man’s father, who is said to be a corrupt cop, commits suicide. When the son learns that his father was actually an honest man who was murdered, he escapes to avenge the killing. Along the way, he also begins to rectify the crimes to which he confessed.
Please click here to read an article about it in Deadline Hollywood.
November 8, 2012
Minnesota Public Radio
Listen to Jo speak on Minnesota Public Radio here:
