Olav lives the lonely life of a fixer. When you ‘fix’ people for a living – terminally – it’s hard to get close to anyone. Now he’s finally met the woman of his dreams. But there are two problems: she’s his boss’s wife, and Olav’s just been hired to kill her. This series follows Olav Johansen, a fixer for Oslo crime boss Daniel Hoffman. In Blood on Snow, Olav has just found the woman of his dreams. The only problem is that she's his boss's wife and that his boss has hired him to kill her. [19] Anyway. To sum up, let’s put it like this: I’m no good at driving slowly, I’m way too soft, I fall in love far too easily, I lose my head when I get angry, and I’m bad at maths. I’ve read a bit, but I don’t really know much, and certainly nothing anyone would find useful. And stalactites grow faster than I can write. Blood on Snow is Nesbø’s own "pulp fiction", in two senses. It’s both a tribute to the simple, hard-boiled narrative style from the old days, but there are also parallels with Quentin Tarantino films... Nesbo’s joy of telling stories doesn't leave anything to wish for. As a tribute to the genre, Blood on Snow also succeeds in reminding us that many of these role models had literary qualities that should not be underestimated. Dagsavisen (Norway) Watermelon snow, also called snow algae, pink snow, red snow, or blood snow, is a phenomenon caused by Chlamydomonas nivalis, a species of green algae containing a secondary red carotenoid pigment ( astaxanthin) in addition to chlorophyll. Unlike most species of fresh-water algae, this species appears to be cryophilic (cold-loving) and thrives in freezing water. [1]

In 2016, it was announced that there are also plans to adapt his stand-alone novel, Sønnen ( The Son), as a film, to be directed by Denis Villeneuve, with Jake Gyllenhaal as producer and Channing Tatum in the lead role. [30] Lutz S, Anesio AM, Raiswell R, et al. The biogeography of red snow microbiomes and their role in melting arctic glaciers. Nature Communications. 2016 Jun;7:11968. DOI: 10.1038/ncomms11968. Bradshaw, Peter (12 October 2017). " The Snowman review – Michael Fassbender plays it cool in watchable Jo Nesbø thriller". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 December 2019. Many species feed on C. nivalis/ Sanguina spp., including protozoans such as ciliates, rotifers, nematodes, ice worms and springtails.

When Ross published his account of the voyage in 1818, it contained a botanical appendix by Robert Brown. In it, Brown tentatively attributed the red snow to an alga. [7] Olav lives the lonely life of a fixer. When you 'fix' people for a living - terminally - it's hard to get close to anyone. Hoffmann said that was good. As usual, he didn’t ask any questions. Either he’d learned to trust me in the course of the four years I’d been working as a fixer for him, or else he didn’t actually want to know. The job was done, so why would a man like him trouble himself with that sort of thing when what he was paying for was to have fewer problems? Hoffmann asked me to go down to the office the next day – he said he had a new job for me. From the internationally acclaimed author of the Harry Hole novels—a fast, tight, darkly lyrical stand-alone novel that has at its center the perfectly sympathetic antihero: an Oslo contract killer who draws us into an unexpected meditation on death and love.

Fleming, Mike Jr. (4 April 2017). "Tobey Maguire to Make Directorial Debut on Jo Nesbo Novel 'Blood On Snow' ". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved 6 April 2017. Listen, I am someone who had chosen to earn their daily bread killing other people. I'm inclined to give people a bit of leeway when it comes to their actions and decisions.” Flood, Alison (14 January 2014). "Jo Nesbø plans 'crime noir' version of Macbeth". The Guardian . Retrieved 2 August 2017.Sutterud, Tone (24 April 2008). " Nemesis, by Jo Nesbo, trans. Don Bartlett" (review). The Independent. Retrieved 30 November 2019. Leonardo DiCaprio tilknyttet Nesbø-filmatisering". Dagbladet (in Norwegian) . Retrieved 22 October 2013. A fine novel ...suspenseful. Blood on Snow has a lot of that romanticised masculinity one finds in for example mafia movies... it’s one of the contributing factors in making the best passages in this novel truly wonderful literature. If I were to highlight one particular quality, it would have to be how beautifully Nesbø has drawn up his main character and how effective Olav’s narrative voice is. Dagbladet (Norway) Brown, Robert (1818). "List of Plants collected by the Officers, &c., in Captain Ross's voyage, on the coasts of Baffin's Bay". {{ cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= ( help) a b Siegel, Lee (5 May 2014). " Pure Evil: Jo Nesbø and the rise of Scandinavian crime fiction". The New Yorker. Retrieved 1 December 2019. "Nesbø's Harry Hole novels have sold twenty-three million copies, in forty languages."

Noiry and pulpy: Nesbø’s gorgeously rendered images of snow, and of the titular blood on snow … are crying out to be filmed.”— The Guardian (London)

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In the crowded field of Scandinavian crime fiction, Nesbø’s books stand out…. [He] likes to rip plots up … to play with the conventions of his genre.”— The New Yorker