The Snowman (Harry Hole 7)

"THE UNDISPUTED KING OF CRIME FICTION" (El Mundo),

WITH 50 MILLION READERS IN 50 LANGUAGES,

INTRODUCES DETECTIVE HARRY HOLE IN HIS SEVENTH CASE.

***THE NOVEL THAT BROUGHT JO NESBØ INTERNATIONAL FAME.***

The first snow falls in November this year in Oslo. The next morning, a child wakes up and doesn't find his mother at home. It seems strange to him to find her favorite scarf hanging from the neck of a snowman someone has made in the garden. Detective Harry Hole begins to suspect that a psychopath has been at large for too long when he discovers that an alarming number of mothers and wives have disappeared under similar circumstances, after the first snow fell. Harry, nor any other police officer, has never before faced a serial killer in Norwegian territory. He will be forced to follow the rules of a macabre game that can push him to the brink of madness.

While dissecting concepts such as paternity, vanity, and death, The Snowman is a definitive and destructive journey into the heart of Detective

Harry Hole: the wounds inflicted by this face-to-face combat with absolute evil could not be deeper.

With a drastic sense of rhythm, an infallible character construction, and a swift exchange of plots, The Snowman, the seventh installment of the series, marked Jo Nesbø's definitive international consecration.

Reviews:
"A relentless novel. The way he transformed a beautiful childlike image into something terrifying has managed to disturb my sleep. Everyone in my band now reads Jo Nesbø."
Patti Smith

"The Snowman is a book as unfathomable as snow, as luminous and abstract as Beethoven's final string quartets; it is a unique and disturbing literary experience."
James Ellroy

"Norway could very well boast that Henrik Ibsen, Edvard Munch, and the successful thriller writer Jo Nesbø are its favorite sons."
The New York Times

"Every once in a while, an extraordinarily good crime novel appears. Jo Nesbø has achieved it with The Snowman."
The Sunday Times

"To speak of Jo Nesbø is to refer to one of the best things that have happened to crime fiction."
The Guardian

"The most thrilling literary bestseller to come from the cold Scandinavian north."
La Razón

"In his devilish plots, we see a great author's taste for pushing the genre's conventions to the limit."
The New Yorker

"After setting a devastating pace, Nesbø knows how to finish his plot twists with a breathtaking ending."
The Guardian

"An unparalleled storyteller, a prodigy of novelistic intuition."
Los Angeles Times

"Addictive and brutal."
El Periódico

"The Scandinavian writer who attracts readers the most."
El diario.es