Someone in town is killing people connected to firearms\u2014those who sell weapons or actively support the right to own them. The main suspect is Tom\u00e1s Gomez, a man involved in drug trafficking. Bob Oz, a detective with the Minneapolis Police Department, is assigned to the case while his own private life is slowly falling apart. During the investigation, Bob befriends a taxidermist who knows Gomez and is commissioned to prepare a cat for him – an odd detail that draws Bob even deeper into the suspect\u2019s world. As events unfold, the case becomes far more complex and unsettling than it initially appears. I had never read Jo Nesb\u00f8 before, partly because I suspected I would love his novels and feel compelled to read them all. That is exactly what happened: I was completely hooked by this gripping, brilliantly constructed plot and now I\u2019m eager to read more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2018Well, all sorts of things,\u2019 said Lunde as he replaced the books on the shelf. \u2018Why it is that loneliness is so troubling. None of our most basic physical needs require the presence of several or even one other human being. Breathe, eat, work, get food, get dressed, fall ill and recover, shit, piss, sleep. From nature\u2019s point of view, we are fully capable of living long, full and wholly satisfactory lives entirely on our own. In many cases better lives than the ones we get when we enter into a union and voluntarily or involuntarily allow our lives to be guided by the needs of others. And yet no one asks themselves whether the ending of Robinson Crusoe, when he gets rescued, is a happy ending or not. Think about it. I mean, he\u2019s managed to organise things pretty well on that island \u2013 what guarantee does he have that the life he gets when he goes back to living with other people will be as good? He\u2019s losing his freedom, his daily swims, a territory that\u2019s all his own with limitless access to food, no working hours, no boss. And for what? But we don\u2019t even wonder about it, we just take it for granted that we\u2019re willing to give up all this for just one thing: the company of other people.\u2019 Original Title : Minnesota Listened to as an audiobook<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Someone in town is killing people connected to firearms\u2014those who sell weapons or actively support the right to own them. The main suspect is Tom\u00e1s Gomez, a man involved in drug trafficking. Bob Oz, a detective with the Minneapolis Police Department, is assigned to the case while his own private life is slowly falling apart. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20253,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[291,294],"tags":[82,104,54],"class_list":["post-20228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books-2026","category-challenge-solidaire-2026","tag-grief","tag-revenge","tag-solitude"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/stephen-andrews-E5d8rp9j8Mo-unsplash-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1704&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20228"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20255,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20228\/revisions\/20255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\u2018But if we don\u2019t need others, then why is loneliness so intolerable?\u2019
\u2018What do you think?\u2019
\u2018Biology. If we all thought it was fine to be alone, we wouldn\u2019t want to reproduce ourselves.\u2019
Lunde raised a finger to point to a glass case full of butterflies hanging on the wall behind him. \u2018Some species meet up for the purpose of reproduction only.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Translated from Norwegian<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n