Wolf Hour by Jo Nesbo

 

A new serial killer is working the streets in Minneapolis, Minnesota.  To all accounts, it seems to be a man called Tomas Gomez, who is an immigrant and who used to be an assassin for a local gang.  Now he seems to be working off a list and killing all those who were involved in a murder of a family on the streets of the city.

Bob Oz is a city cop but he's not been the same reliable detective for the past year.  These days, after a tragedy of his own, he comes to work when he comes, drunk.  His squad has been carrying him for almost a year but the higher ups are getting tired of him and he's been given warnings that its shape up or ship out.  Maybe catching Gomez will be his golden ticket back into the force's good graces.  

This is a new departure for Jo Nesbo.  His most famous work is his Harry Hole series with a detective set in Norway.  But his sympathy for those who life has beaten down is evident in this mystery as well.  I could read more books about Bob Oz, and I love that Nesbo is branching out as I always read everything he writes.  He is one of my favorite mystery authors and this one is no different.  This novel is recommended for mystery readers.