I've had this book, along with several other Nesbo thrillers, on my shelf for a few years. Finally got around to reading it after seeing a trailer for the movie that recently came out based on the novel.
This is the 7th book in the Harry Hole series but the first I have read. These books were written by a Norwegian author and Hole is a detective for the Norwegian police in Oslo. In this book, Hole is trying to solve a series of murders/disappearances of married women in which a snowman is used as a trademark by the killer. He discovers that the murders may go back several years and seem to be tied to some similar cases that took place in Bergen, Norway. The story is very compelling and leaves the reader with a sense of unease throughout. The killer is adept at throwing Harry off course and there are several false leads before the penultimate conclusion. I would definitely recommend this one to any fan of crime fiction and I'm sure I'll be reading more of these. There were some references in the book to some of the happenings in the earlier novels in the series so I will probably start at the first in the series, The Bat, and read from there...hopefully sooner than later...aye so much to read! I also want to see the movie version although some of the reviews I've read have not been kind...possibly the viewers had not read the source material. We'll see...
This is the 7th book in the Harry Hole series but the first I have read. These books were written by a Norwegian author and Hole is a detective for the Norwegian police in Oslo. In this book, Hole is trying to solve a series of murders/disappearances of married women in which a snowman is used as a trademark by the killer. He discovers that the murders may go back several years and seem to be tied to some similar cases that took place in Bergen, Norway. The story is very compelling and leaves the reader with a sense of unease throughout. The killer is adept at throwing Harry off course and there are several false leads before the penultimate conclusion. I would definitely recommend this one to any fan of crime fiction and I'm sure I'll be reading more of these. There were some references in the book to some of the happenings in the earlier novels in the series so I will probably start at the first in the series, The Bat, and read from there...hopefully sooner than later...aye so much to read! I also want to see the movie version although some of the reviews I've read have not been kind...possibly the viewers had not read the source material. We'll see...
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