Jo Nesbo’s 'explosive new thriller' set for August 2025 from Harvill Secker

Jo Nesbo’s “explosive new thriller with unexpected twists, dark secrets and bubbling personal and political tension”, Wolf Hour, is due in August 2025.

UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, went to Harvill Secker publishing director Liz Foley in a deal with Niclas Salomonsson at the Salomonsson Agency.

The blurb reads: “When a small-time crook is shot down in the street, all signs point to a lone wolf, a sniper who has seemingly vanished into thin air. Down-and-out detective Bob Oz is sitting in a dive bar in Minneapolis when he gets a call: there’s been another murder, and they don’t think it will be the last.

“As the body count grows, Oz suspects that something more sinister is at play. And the closer he gets the more disturbed he becomes. Because the serial killer reminds him of someone: himself.”

Foley said of Wolf Hour: “Hot on the heels of the news that Netflix’s Harry Hole series has finished filming, we’re thrilled to have this brilliant new standalone thriller from Jo coming this summer. The reviews in Norway have called it ‘spectacularly entertaining’ and I couldn’t agree more.”

One of the world’s bestselling crime writers, the paperback of Nesbo’s latest Detective Harry Hole thriller, Killing Moon (Harvill Secker), was a Sunday Times number-one bestseller in January 2024, holding the top spot for two weeks. His standalone thrillers The Son and Macbeth have also topped the Sunday Times bestseller charts, with his books published in 50 languages altogether.