See More From Book Club Friends

Sign up and log in to post, comment and join the conversation.

Book Club Friends is 100% Canadian 🇨🇦

Jo Nesbo
The Son: A Novel

The Son: A Novel

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of the bestselling Harry Hole series comes an electrifying tale of vengeance set amid Oslo’s brutal hierarchy of corruption.

“The crime author of the moment.”—The New York Times Book Review

Sonny Lofthus has been in prison for almost half his life: serving time for crimes he didn’t commit. In exchange, he gets an uninterrupted supply of heroin—and a stream of fellow prisoners seeking out his Buddha-like absolution. Years earlier Sonny’s father, a corrupt cop, took his own life rather than face exposure. Now Sonny is the center of a vortex of corruption: prison staff, police, lawyers, a desperate priest—all of them focused on keeping him stoned and jailed. When Sonny discovers a shocking truth about his father’s suicide, he makes a brilliant escape and begins hunting down the people responsible for his and his father’s demise. But he’s also being hunted, and by enemies too many to count. Two questions remain: who will get to him first, and what will he do when he’s cornered?

Author: Jo Nesbo
Published: 2014
Page Count: 512

This page may include affiliate links.

Purchase on:

Amazon
Amazon

Book Club Discussion Questions For The Son: A Novel

The Son: A Novel
Discuss The Son: A Novel With Your Book Club Friends

Do you want to take a deeper dive intoThe Son: A Novel? Chat about themes, characters, settings, plots and let’s celebrate this book for our Book of the Month discussion!

Suggest The Son: A Novel

More Book Club Discussions

A Better Man
A Fatal Grace
A Great Reckoning
A Rule Against Murder
A Trick of the Light
A World of Curiosities
All the Devils Are Here
An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
Beautiful Ugly
Bury Your Dead
Glass Houses
How the Light Gets In
How to Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight for Our Future
Iron Lake (20th Anniversary Edition)
Kingdom of the Blind
On Tyranny
State of Terror
Still Life
The Beautiful Mystery
The Boyfriend
The Briar Club
The Brutal Telling
The Crash
The Cruelest Month
The Frozen River
The Grey Wolf
The Housemaid
The Life We Bury
The Long Way Home
The Madness of Crowds
The Mighty Red
The Nature of the Beast
The River We Remember
The Rose Code
The Searcher
The Thursday Murder Club
See All Discussions

Highly Recommended Books by Jo Nesbo Book Club Friends

The Shell Game: A Fox and O'Hare Short Story
Death of a Valentine
The Perfect Paragon
The Body Farm
No Second Chance
The Darkest Evening
Nobody Walks
Touch & Go
Among the Mad
The Scorpion's Tail
Frozen: A Vera Stanhope Short Story
With a Mind to Kill: A James Bond Novel
A Christmas Odyssey
The Shadows We Hide
The Maid
Bedford Square
The Dark Enquiry
The Hallmarked Man
An Enemy in the Village
The Cold Dish: A Longmire Mystery
Gone: An Alex Delaware Novel
Agatha Raisin and The Witch of Wyckhadden
Murder on the Red River
Death of a Dentist
The Old Wine Shades
Brain Damage
Run Away
Dark Road
Code to Zero
A Perilous Undertaking
About Face
The Last Days of Kira Mullen
Midnight Escape
The Chalk Pit
Chrysalis
I Will Find You
Christmas at Patchin Place: Two Molly Murphy Mysteries
Her Royal Spyness
A Burial at Sea
The Cuckoo's Calling
Then She Was Gone
Innocent Blood
The White Lady
Murder on a Midsummer Night
Surfacing
Out of Range
Lord of the Silent
Dead to Rights
Hot Six
Pretty Girls: A Novel
The Punishment She Deserves
The Mermaids Singing
Image in the Lake
True Detectives
Earthly Remains
A Dying Fall
Trespasser
To Love and Be Wise
The Comfort of Ghosts
The Conspiracy Club
Gone Before Christmas: A Charles Lenox Mystery
A Matter of Justice
House of Many Shadows
Agatha Raisin and the Murderous Marriage
Falling in Love
The Murderer's Daughter
The Silkworm
12 Rose Street
Cemetery Dance
Cold Wind
Bruno and Le Pere Noel: A Bruno
A Sunlit Weapon
The Codex
The Apprentice: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel
The Modigliani Scandal
Man in the Queue
Under the Streets of Nice: The Bank Heist of the Century
Standing in the Shadows
Silent Partner
Take Your Breath Away
Three-Day Town
Three Twisted Stories
Death Without Company: A Longmire Mystery
A Lethal Lesson
Improbable Cause
In the Company of Cheerful Ladies
Death by Deep Dish Pie
The Girl of His Dreams
Not Safe After Dark: And Other Stories
The Night She Disappeared
Death of a Master Chef: A Brittany Mystery
Destroyer Angel
Sovereign
Dark Angel
Guardian of the Horizon
Notorious Nineteen
The Best American Mystery Stories 2011
Uncharted Waters
The Crowded Grave
Night over Water
The Careful Use of Compliments
Thunderhead
Free Fire
Name Withheld
Dark Corners
Ammie
In a Strange City
Still Life: A Karen Pirie Novel
Simisola
A Good Hanging
Murder on Brittany Shores: A Mystery
Do You Remember?
The Other Daughter
Alone
The Crash
Neon Prey
Do Not Exceed the Stated Dose
The Bones of Paris
Roxanne: A Kings Lake Investigation
The Old Fox Deceiv'd
Listen to Me
Tell Me
Aloysius X. L. Pendergast: A Mysterious Profile
Deliver Us from Evil
The Accidental Detective
But For The Grace: A DC Smith Investigation
Bleeding Heart Yard
Mexican Hat
I Found You
Pros and Cons: A Short Story
Blood Shot
Bare Bones
What Came Before He Shot Her
The Last Detective
A Heart Full of Headstones
Blowback
Down a Dark Road
After the Storm
The Last Illusion
The Fourth Sacrifice
The Likeness
The Deadly Dance
Bad Move
Flesh and Blood
A Christmas Journey
The Death of Mrs. Westaway
A Question of Blood
The Gift: A Christmas Thriller Novelette
Reconstruction
A Thief of Time
Watching Eagles Soar
Bruno and the Carol Singers: A Christmas Mystery of the French Countryside
A Death in Cornwall
Tie Dyed and Dead
London Rules
Birds of Prey
The Silent Spirit
Edge of Evil
Deep Storm
Liberty Falling
Killing the Shadows
The Marriage of Mary Russell
Dry Bones: A Longmire Mystery
The Jupiter Myth
Sacred Clowns: A Leaphorn and Chee Novel
Agatha Raisin and the Wellspring of Death
Death of a Dustman
The September Society
A Noise Downstairs
Beyond the Ice Limit
Stolen Prey
A Darkness of the Heart
The Price of Love and Other Stories
Blood on the Water: A William Monk Novel
To Darkness and to Death
I Was Anastasia
Sinister Graves
Bones Never Lie
The Truth: A DC Smith Investigation
Full Bloom
Ends of Justice
The English Spy
A Breach of Promise: A William Monk Novel
Still Life
The Defector
Revenge
Star Struck
High Country
A Cool Head
Police: A Harry Hole Novel
The Right Thing to Do
Bonfire Night
A Stranger in Mayfair
Game On
The Woman on the Island: A Vera Stanhope Short Story
One Coffee With
The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2024
Lamentation
White Fire
I'll Keep You Safe
One Virgin Too Many
A Fatal Lie
Miracle Cure
The Lost Coast: A Novel
A Hanging at Dawn: A Bess Crawford Short Story
The Front
The Silent Wife: A Novel
Promise Me
Breaking Silence
The Stargazey
The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection
Original Sin
The Most Dangerous Thing
Flashback
Half Moon Bay: A Novel
The Salaryman's Wife
Career of Evil
The Hunt: A Decker/Lazarus Novel
The Fly on the Wall
Trophy Hunt
Spider Bones
Death in Daylesford
Hallowed Ground: A Kate Burkholder Short Story
Deadlock: A V. I. Warshawski Novel
Invisible Prey
The Bone Hacker
The Woods
The Sentence is Death
The Camera Man: A DC Smith Investigation
Agatha Raisin and Tthe Haunted House
The Nature of the Beast
Make Death Love Me
The Rise: A Short Story
Medea
Alias Grace
Beau Death
Death Row
Trojan Gold: A Vicky Bliss Novel of Suspense
Holy Ghost
The Book Thing
Nobody's Fool
The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party
Death of a Travelling Man
The Deeds of the Disturber
Northwest Angle
Devices and Desires
Heartwood
The Ex
The Grey Wolf
Seeds of Deception: A Kate Burkholder Short Story
Blow Fly
Death of a Charming Man
The Black Cat: A Richard Jury Mystery
Absolution by Murder
Missing and Endangered
Careless in Red
The Curse of the Pharaohs
The Complaints
Precious Cargo: A Story from Birds of Prey
Playing with Fire
A Twist of Fortune
Sleep No More: Six Murderous Tales
Forsaken Country
Hard Truth
A Simple Murder: A Kate Burkholder Short Story Collection
Hunter's Moon
Murder Takes a Vacation
Divine Justice
Dial A for Aunties
The Vault
Lockdown
Suicide Run
The Whole Truth
The Last Place
B is for Burglar
Adam and Eve and Pinch Me
Riviera Gold
The Dream Stalker
A Duty to the Dead
Never Lie
Death of a Laird: A Hamish Macbeth Short Story
The Lair of the White Fox
The Three Monarchs: A Sherlock Holmes Short Story
Beneath the Surface
Bury Your Dead
The Lantern Men
Unnatural Causes
The Glass Room
To Play the Fool
At Midnight Comes the Cry
The Raging Storm
The Last Devil to Die
A Christmas Hope: A Novel
Less Than a Treason
A Pattern of Lies
Angle of Investigation
Pony Girl
This Is What Happened
Shadows in Bronze
Robicheaux