Jo Nesbø
Norwegian crime writer Jo Nesbø speaks to Take Four Books about his new novel, Wolf Hour, and together with presenter James Crawford, explores its connections to three other works.
Presenter James Crawford speaks to bestselling crime writer and Norwegian novelist Jo Nesbø about his book, Wolf Hour - a standalone thriller set in Minneapolis, where a dysfunctional detective, Bob Oz, investigates the attempted murder of a crooked gun dealer. The three books that inspired Jo while writing Wolf Hour were: Hunger by Knut Hamsun (1890), The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson (1952), and American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis (1991).
Producers: Rachael O’Neill & Hayley Jarvis
Editor: Gillian Wheelan
This was a BBC Audio Scotland production.
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- Sun 7 Dec 202516:00BBC Radio 4
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