Nesbø, a Norwegian writer and leading exponent of Nordic noir, never ceases to amaze. Breaking stereotypes, disregarding the rules of the genre, he shows a person as frankly as if we ourselves were looking in the mirror, afraid to admit to ourselves: it’s me. “There is and will not be any censorship in my head,” Nesbø states. He never reveals his plans in advance, and until recently it was only known that the writer was working on two collections of short prose. The first of them included seven crime stories, united by the theme of jealousy: feelings that are ancient, strong, painful, not subject to will, changing human nature. The two meet on an airplane. She says that she wanted to die because her husband cheated and signed an agreement with a company that faked suicides. If only the woman knew who was sitting in the next chair... A tourist has disappeared on a Greek island, and a detective with a unique ability to recognize jealousy during interrogation is invited to investigate... Suspicion falls on the brother of the missing man, and this motif of Cain and Abel echoes the plot of Nesbø's latest novel “Kingdom.” Jealousy is covered up by a thirst for justice, drives you crazy, poisons life and changes it for the better only when the opponent can be removed, literally and figuratively. Among Nesbø's heroes there are both cynics and simpletons, but they always act unpredictably - even for themselves, because human logic is powerless in front of the green-eyed monster. For the first time in Russian!