The Redbreast / Jo Nesbo 519 p.

I picked this up in an attempt to ease my withdrawal symptoms from Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander. Nesbo's Norwegian counterpart is Harry Hole, an alcoholic Oslo detective who has a way of getting in trouble. This was a terrific plot, involving a slice of history I know nothing about: Norwegian men who fought with the Germans on the Eastern Front against the Russians and were later imprisoned as traitors, although most of them were more anti-Russian than pro-German. The story flips back and forth between war-time and the present. I don't like Harry as well as Kurt, but he'll do.