Here<\/a> is my piece, in which he taked about reading Jim Thompson’s The Killer Inside Me.<\/p>\n“I wasn’t that into crime novels at all,” he says, “but a friend introduced me to the work of Jim Thompson \u2014 I loved all his books. When I read [Raymond] Chandler, it was a bit comic, these romantic, melancholy monologues. To me, Thompson was braver, more extreme.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I like Nesbo a lot, and found him smart and reflective. He’s also a musician, and I enjoyed speaking to him about alt-country figures like Gillian Welch and David Rawlings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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ear if it would work. But I think it’s fair to say that Nesbo has found a following in the States. For what it’s worth, he was publishing novels in Scandinavia, to some acclaim, years before Larsson’s Girl With the Dragon Tattoo<\/em> came out.<\/p>\n