A married woman has sex with a lover in the middle of the day, while her adolescent son waits in a car outside their lovemaking is disturbed when they think somebody is looking at them from outside the window, but it turns out to have been only a tall snowman. 150,000 first printing 6-city author tour.The book begins in 1980 (24 years before the main part of the novel). Nesb breathes new life into the serial killer subgenre, giving it a Norwegian twist and never losing his laconic hero in the process. What appeared random and bizarre then now takes on new meaning as Harry realizes the killer is taunting him. Several months earlier, Harry received an anonymous letter referring to both snowmen and the Australian serial killer he'd pursued early in his career. Harry, aided by Katrine Bratt, a brash new member of his team with secrets of her own, combs through past missing person cases, looking for other victims of the killer now dubbed the Snowman. When Sylvia Ottersen disappears from her farmhouse soon afterward, the snowman the killer leaves behind has a gruesome addition: Sylvia's severed head.

Harry Hole crime series (The Devil's Star, etc.), a snowman left in the front yard of Birte Becker's Oslo house is the only clue to the woman's disappearance. In this chilling installment in Nesb 's Insp. With brilliantly realized characters and hair-raising suspense, international bestselling author Jo Nesbø presents his most chilling case yet-one that will test Harry Hole to the very limits of his sanity.ĭon't miss Jo Nesbo's latest Harry Hole novel, Killing Moon! and he’ll break his pattern just to keep the game interesting, as he draws Harry ever closer into his twisted web. But this is a killer who makes his own rules. The case deepens when a pattern emerges: over the past decade, eleven women have vanished-all on the day of the first snow. Inspector Harry Hole suspects a link between the missing woman and a suspicious letter he’s received. Only one trace of her remains: a pink scarf, his Christmas gift to her, now worn by the snowman that inexplicably appeared in their yard earlier that day. One night, after the first snowfall of the year, a boy named Jonas wakes up and discovers that his mother has disappeared. Inspector Harry Hole tracks a Norwegian serial killer in this “fiendishly complex and terrifically entertaining” ( The New York Times Book Review) installment of the New York Times bestselling series.

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