Title: THE SNOWMAN (Harry Hole #7)
Author: Jo Nesbo
Publisher: Vintage Books
Publication Date: November 6th, 2014 (First Published in 2007)
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.
It’s never ideal to bounce around a series, as you can lose key moments which really are integral to the development of plots and characters. However, when you hear that a movie based on this book is due out pretty soon staring that there Michael Fassbender – jumping around a series is certainly justified!
THE SNOWMAN is the seventh book in the Harry Hole series. I have only read the first book; THE BAT so far and I was blown away by the writing style and how the story grabbed me from the first page. I have heard great things about THE SNOWMAN, so I cannot wait to get stuck in!
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The Snowman was my first entry point to the Harry Hole saga and – having since gone backwards and forward from that point – I don’t think it’s too essential to have read others to this point. It’s also my favourite of the lot though I hold little hope for the film version.
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