![]() ![]() Nesbø may be the kind of writer – like Stephen King and James Herbert – who wanted to be a rock star, but even though his band's second album was a Norwegian bestseller, he's self-deprecating about this particular blind alley – as he is about his stalled career as a footballer. An alcoholic Norwegian detective (Michael Fassbender’s Harry Hole) is being taunted by a serial killer who murders and dismembers his female victims and leaves their remains dotted around the. ![]() With its tensile-steel narrative grip, this most ambitious of Nesbø's crime novels banishes any fears that the omniscient serial killer scenario has been exhausted. Some days later, a gruesome discovery is made: the severed head of another woman, placed on top of a snowman. Mothers and wives have disappeared, often on the day when snow begins to fall. ![]() Harry's main problem, though, is an anonymous letter he has received, signed "The Snowman". Readers will intuit that a mutual respect will grow - standard territory in police procedurals. After this blood-chilling overture, DI Harry Hole has to deal with two problems: a forceful new female partner, Katrine Bratt - a woman who quickly demonstrates that she can give as good as she gets. ![]()
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