The Snowman
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The next thrilling installment in the Harry Hole series.
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 learn 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. A brilliant thriller with a pace that never lets up, The Snowman confirms Jo Nesbø’s position as an international star of crime fiction.
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One of the best crime tales you will ever read. Nesbo just keeps getting better and better. The Snowman is guarranteed to make you look over your should as you read. Don’t read it late at night, if you know what is excellent for you…
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Reason for Reading: Next published in the series (in English).
A woman disappears and a few months earlier Inspector Harry Hole had received a threatening note. He is convinced that their is a tie. Then a second woman disappears. Harry and his detectives soon learn a disturbing tale of women, married with children, who have gone missing lacking a trace over a chillingly large number of years. The clues will take him down so many fake roads that his job is on the line not once, but twice.
This is a thriller that takes off on new twists with the speediness of a whip crack. What’s up for one chapter is down the next with reveal after reveal sending the police on the chase of a clever, determined serial killer who is skillfully directing the police to play into the unsub’s own mad theatre of his mind.
I’ve read three of the books in this series so far and this is the most brilliant. The red herrings, the fake roads which all do connect, in a way, just not the way the police want them to, are an incredible road to follow. Twist after turn will have you gasping as they go after who they reflect is the killer only to find they have suspicions of a name else … more than once. I really can’t convey how amazingly clever this plot was natural fiber together, with a heap of clues, characters and evidence Nesbo doesn’t miss a step in seamlessly making an airtight thriller.
Amusing thing for me is that I guessed who the killer was as soon as the character was introduced, for no particular reason than I thought it would make perfect sense in the end. (Perhaps I read so many thrillers I’m beginning to reflect like a thriller writer, either that or a serial killer, AAH!). Anyway, it gave me a unique perspective reading this book as I watched my chosen killer and applied all evidence and clues to them and convinced myself I’d selected correctly not that far into the book; that I was really rather stunned, even though I’d been right, when the narrator out-of-the-blue starts writing from the killer’s point of view letting the reader know who is the killer.
An extremely intelligent, clever, roller-coaster of a thriller. Jo Nesbo is up there at the top with the best thriller writers of today.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
The Harry Hole series presents the reader with to some extent of an anomaly. On the one hand, we are informed that Norway is virtually free from serial killers. On the additional hand, Hole is reputed to be the only detective in the nation with experience in catching serial killers, having accomplished his experience in Australia and also attending an FBI course. And then, serial killers tend to appear in the Harry Hole novels, including this one.
The first of several missing persons is a married mother, and the only clue is a snowman outside her home. Before long before her disappearance, Hole received a mysterious letter which, in retrospect, leads him to judge there was a link between it and the woman’s vanishing. In reviewing unsolved cases, Harry and his team find an alarming number of wives and mothers have gone missing over some years.
Once again, Jo Nesbo has written a taut thriller, one that is forceful and gripping and, this time, full of madness. His novels just keep on getting better and better. Quick-paced and staggering, permanently keeping the reader looking yet to be to the next shift, keeping one off balance with marvel. Highly recommended.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Nothing like curling up with a excellent serial killer. But that is exactly what you should do. Go on, get excellent and comfy, turn off the phone, gather up your favorite munchies and prepare for a pounding long session with Jo Nesbo’s Harry Hold and his neighborhood of friends and thugs. The fifth (English publication) in a series from master Norwegian yarn spinner, Nesbo maintains Detective Hole’s head of state position as the best of the hard driven cops in print. Not your predictable boiler plate fare, this series stays taut and original from opening to close. Nesbo’s books are extremely atmospheric with the Norwegian weather apt a tactile character on its own. Likable or not depending on their personal take on life, the human characters are distinctive thinking forms of flesh and blood. Colors are every shade of gray in your imagination. There’s just something about the way Nesbo weaves his tale and makes Hold’s world that make his books unforgettable and not-place-downable.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Jo Nesbø: THE SNOWMAN
This is Nesbø’s seventh Harry Hole novel, but the fifth to be published in English. While this is a serial killer novel, which I normally don’t care for, I did delight in this book. Nesbø is a fluid, lyrical writer, Don Bartlett a talented translator, and Harry Hole a compelling character.
It’s the first snowfall of the season and a snowman appears outside young Jonas’s house. Strangely, the snowman is facing the house, rather than the street. In the middle of the night, Jonas awakes and finds his mother is missing, but her scarf is now around the snowman’s neck.
As Harry’s team works this missing-persons case, Harry fears that they are really dealing with a serial killer who has left a note for Harry, taunting him. His dread heightens as additional crimes are learned that seem to him to be related.
As in previous books in this series, there are certain themes that connect the crimes being investigated and Harry’s life. The complexity of the various plots means that the book starts slowly and deliberately to get the tales in motion. Then, about middle through, things take off and become breathtakingly tense and exciting.
Several times you may reflect you have the whodunnit figured out, but there are more twists and turns to come. You learn new clues along with Harry, so there is no feel of trickery in the plot’s movement. This is predictable of a Harry Hole mystery, though in this case, probably because of the scenery of the crime, the red-herring suspects were less believable than usual.
Harry’s relationships with his team, his superiors and his ex- lover Rakel and her son Oleg continue to be an vital part of the books. And as permanently, Oslo itself is nearly another character.
Harry’s self-loathing and titanic struggles with drink continue in THE SNOWMAN. His addiction to his job helps combat his addiction to alcohol, but in moments of despair he falls into the pit again. Another character tells Harry that all of the best tales are about losers. Readers of the Harry Hole series should agree.
Ideally, the Harry Hole series should be read in order, though that is not absolutely critical with THE SNOWMAN or its predecessor, THE REDEEMER. It would be unfortunate, but, to read THE REDBREAST, NEMESIS and THE DEVIL’S STAR out of that order, because they function as a trilogy in one vital thread of the tale.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5