The Snowman

by Jo Nesbo
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Beware the falling snow... The first snowfall in Oslo brings a series of gruesome murders, and Harry Hole is pitted against a brutal killer who will drive him to the edge.

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The night the first snow falls a young boy wakes to find his mother gone. He walks through the silent house, but finds only wet footprints on the stairs. In the garden looms a solitary figure: a snowman bathed in cold moonlight, its black eyes glaring up at the bedroom windows. Round its neck is his mother's pink scarf. Inspector Harry Hole is convinced there is a link between the disappearance and a menacing letter he received some months earlier. As Harry and his team delve into unsolved case files, they discover that an alarming number of wives and mothers have gone missing over the years. When a second woman disappears Harry's suspicions are confirmed: he is a pawn in a deadly game. For the first time in his career Harry finds himself confronted with a serial killer operating on his turf, a killer who will drive him to the brink of insanity. A brilliant thriller with a pace that never lets up, The Snowman confirms Jo Nesbø's position as an international star of crime fiction. This is the seventh book in the Harry Hole series.

Editorial Reviews

"Many authors know how to make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. Jo Nesbo's one of the few who keeps them there
" - Linwood Barclay

"The Snowman is a superb thriller. Jo Nesbø is astonishingly good; he knows how to grab you, by the throat and by the heart
" - Jeff Abbott

"This is chilling, spectacular stuff and anyone looking for serious, and seriously compelling, crime writing need look no further" - Mark Billingham

"Hole is all a fictional detective should be ...each scene is succinct , dovetails with another, shifts the reader's perspective, and keeps the pace fast and interesting ... he ensures his readers keep turning the page to read more" - Times Literary Supplement

"Nesbo handles the tension with aplomb" - Metro

"Nesbo's plotting and pared-back prose style effectively keeping the reader hooked as he ramps up the action to a gripping climax" - The Big Issue

"A strong, pacey narrative with plenty of gruesome discoveries" - Laura Wilson, The Guardian

"As gripping as Silence of the Lambs" - The Sunday Times

"Chillingly adept ... creepy, creepy stuff from the very first page" - Daneet Steffans, Time Out

"Norwegian crime novel that's as gripping as The Silence of the Lambs" - The Sunday Times

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