I purchased this book for my own personal collection.
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Published: June 28, 2016 (first published 2007)
Summary:
Internationally acclaimed crime writer Jo Nesbø’s antihero police investigator, Harry Hole, is back: in a bone-chilling thriller that will take Hole to the brink of insanity.
Oslo in November. The first snow of the season has fallen. A boy named Jonas wakes in the night to find his mother gone. Out his window, in the cold moonlight, he sees the snowman that inexplicably appeared in the yard earlier in the day. Around its neck is his mother’s pink scarf.
Hole suspects a link between a menacing letter he’s received and the disappearance of Jonas’s mother—and of perhaps a dozen other women, all of whom went missing on the day of a first snowfall. As his investigation deepens, something else emerges: he is becoming a pawn in an increasingly terrifying game whose rules are devised—and constantly revised—by the killer.
Fiercely suspenseful, its characters brilliantly realized, its atmosphere permeated with evil, The Snowman is the electrifying work of one of the best crime writers of our time.
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My thoughts:
Well, I can certainly say I won’t ever look at snowmen that same way again! I cannot say enough times how much I am loving this series. Each book is so intricately plotted and different. I’m not reading the same book each time I pick up the next one in the series, if that makes sense.
I have to say that this is one of my favorites of the series so far. It’s dark, twisted and quite chilling. Give me all the police procedurals involving serial killers…this one was just so good! It really kept me on my toes and each time a new clue appeared, I had to wonder if it would finally be the one where Harry would solve the case. And of course, even as Harry is consumed with this case, he continues to struggle with his vices. He really is such a fascinating character and I just love him!
I cannot get enough of this series and am glad there are a few more books to be read!
Books in this series:
- The Bat
- Cockroaches
- The Redbreast
- Nemesis
- The Devil’s Star
- The Redeemer
- The Snowman
- The Leopard
- Phantom
- Police
- The Thirst
- Knife
