todaY

It will probably be today.  And I feel a great deal of sadness about that.  I've been with Harry for a fairly long time now . . . what, a year?  Is that all?  That doesn't seem possible.  Maybe it's two years.  Let's see . . . a quick dip into the My Orders section of My Account on Amazon reveals that I purchased The Redbreast, which was, at the time, the earliest Harry Hole novel available in the U.S. of A., for my Kindle Fire on December 20, 2012.  So actually a tad more than a year.  Seems like much longer, actually, because I have come to love Harry so much.  But I did tear through those books.  In fact, I got The Bat from Audible.com (for free--trial period thing--before the novel was actually available in English--on 12/31/12, and then bought Nemesis  January 9, 2013, again for KF, & The Devil's Star (for KF) September 17, 2013--following the Norwegian order of publication at this point.  (Check out the dates of publication below and you'll see how completely fucked the order of publication is for the U.S. A.  What's up with that?)  Then there's a bit of a gap in the purchase records, as I found Redeemer, The Snowman (or maybe not--I seem to have checked it out of the library on 12/21/2012, but I also seem to remember buying it; I may have purchased it ex post reado in order to be able to loan it out, though), The Leopard, & Phantom at Half-Price Books . . . and most (or all?) were on the cheap--hardback copies for a buck or two.  I gave a couple of these away to try to spread the word. (Now that I think on it, there's no way I went from January to September without a Harry Hole.  And the library check-out date or The Snowman is kind of curious, too. I am pretty sure that I red-lined through all of the novels in order up until Phantom, though.)   I pre-ordered Police from Amazon 'cause I was really jonesing at that point--no time to fuck around with the library or used copies, and got it on 10/15/2013.  And I also pre-ordered Cockroaches for my KF and got it 2/10/2014.  Which brings me back to where this started.  I am now 70% of the way through Cockroaches, and for the first time since I began there is no more Harry Hole available out there.  And I don't know if there will be an eleventh HH novel.  Police seemed like the end, actually.  There is still more Nesbo, which is okay, but I could use more Harry.  I've even read the first of the Fart Powder books (and bought the second and third, which I'll also read) in my attempts to fill the Harry void, but needless to say it's not the same.  

Sigh.

Norweigian publication order by title, American publication order by date:

The Bat  (2012)
Cockroaches  (2013)
The Redbreast  (2006)
Nemesis  (2008)
The Devil's Star  (2005)
Redeemer  (2009)
The Snowman  (2010)
The Leopard  (2011)
Phantom  (2012)
Police  (2013)