I can't say more without being spoiler-y, but if you've read the early books in the series, you'll spot it. He repeats certain key characters' places in Harry's life and plot developments involving those key characters from earlier books to this book.
There is a broader repetition in Nesbø's writing. After he's done it a few times, the reader recognizes the gimmick and just wants to get through the scene. These gimmicks to gin up excitement and fear in the reader are so frequent and obvious that it becomes like the fable of the boy who cried wolf. Nesbø also frequently makes a situation seem threatening by not telling the reader who a character is, just referring to him as "he," so that the reader thinks the worst. Quite often the danger scene turns out to be not at all dangerous, because the mysterious threat is now revealed to be a friend or co-worker. He also tries to generate excitement by putting characters in apparent danger, cutting away to another scene and then returning to the danger scene. Nesbø sets up three main suspects in the police murders and spends most of the book manipulating the reader into thinking it's X, then Y, then Z. Newly-appointed Oslo police chief Mikael Bellman worries about what the man might reveal if he ever returns to consciousness. Meanwhile, a man lies in a coma in a heavily-guarded hospital room. The investigators believe that if they can only figure out the killer's motive, maybe they can find this relentless killer, who has left them few, if any, other clues.
The killer lures an officer to the scene of the previous crime and kills the cop in a way similar to the original murder.
Interesting plot line marred by too much gimmickry and manipulationĪ killer is targeting police officers specifically officers who were involved in the investigation of unsolved murders.
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