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"INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Inspector Harry Hole tracks a Norwegian serial killer in this “fiendishly complex and terrifically entertaining” (The New York Times Book Review) installment of the New York Times bestselling series. ""Maddeningly addictive.” —Vanity Fair One night, after the first snowfall of the year, a boy named Jonas wakes up and discovers that his mother has disappeared. Only one trace of her remains: a pink scarf, his Christmas gift to her, now worn by the snowman that inexplicably appeared in their yard earlier that day. Inspector Harry Hole suspects a link between the missing woman and a suspicious letter he’s received. The case deepens when a pattern emerges: over the past decade, eleven women have vanished—all on the day of the first snow. But this is a killer who makes his own rules ... and he’ll break his pattern just to keep the game interesting, as he draws Harry ever closer into his twisted web. With brilliantly realized characters and hair-raising suspense, international bestselling author Jo Nesbø presents his most chilling case yet—one that will test Harry Hole to the very limits of his sanity. Don't miss Jo Nesbo's latest Harry Hole thriller, Killing Moon!"

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Jo Nesbo is my new favorite thriller writer and Harry Hole my new hero. --Michael Connelly <br> Fiendishly complex and terrifically entertaining. -- The New York Times Book Review <br> If you don't know Nesbo, it's time to get with it. -- USA Today <br> Nesbo explores the darkest criminal minds with grim delight and puts his killers where you least expect to find them. . . . His novels are maddeningly addictive. -- Vanity Fair <br> A superb thriller--smart, stylish, beautifully paced and meticulously plotted. -- Newsday <br> The Snowman is strung together with great care, playful in certain stretches, grisly in others, all of it highly readable. -- Newsweek <br> The writer most likely to take the ice-cold crown in the critically acclaimed--and now bestselling--category of Nordic noir. -- Los Angeles Times <br> Nesbo's books have a serious, socially significant heft, as well as a confident (even cocky) narrative stride that is unmatched. These aren't mere investigatory trifles to be enjoyed and forgotten; their unnerving horrors linger. -- Richmond Times-Dispatch <br> Nesbo's pace is unerring, and the way he builds up suspense will incite Pavlovian page-turning. -- Time Out New York <br> This is reading as you experienced it in childhood, without any gap between eye and mind, but with the added pleasures that adult plots and adult characters can bring. . . . Unputdownable. The Snowman is probably the most terrifying and certainly the most addictive book in the whole series. -- Slate <br> This is crime writing of the highest order, in which the characters are as strong as the story, where an atmosphere of evil permeates, and the tension begins in the first chapter and never lets up. -- The Times (London) <br> Spine-chilling. . . . This most ambitious of Nesbo's crime novels banishes any fears that the omniscient serial killer scenario has been exhausted. -- The Independent (London) <br> Ma

Jo Nesbo is my new favorite thriller writer and Harry Hole my new hero. --Michael Connelly Fiendishly complex and terrifically entertaining. -- The New York Times Book Review If you don't know Nesbo, it's time to get with it. -- USA Today Nesbo explores the darkest criminal minds with grim delight and puts his killers where you least expect to find them. . . . His novels are maddeningly addictive. -- Vanity Fair A superb thriller--smart, stylish, beautifully paced and meticulously plotted. -- Newsday The Snowman is strung together with great care, playful in certain stretches, grisly in others, all of it highly readable. -- Newsweek The writer most likely to take the ice-cold crown in the critically acclaimed--and now bestselling--category of Nordic noir. -- Los Angeles Times Nesbo's books have a serious, socially significant heft, as well as a confident (even cocky) narrative stride that is unmatched. These aren't mere investigatory trifles to be enjoyed and forgotten; their unnerving horrors linger. -- Richmond Times-Dispatch Nesbo's pace is unerring, and the way he builds up suspense will incite Pavlovian page-turning. -- Time Out New York This is reading as you experienced it in childhood, without any gap between eye and mind, but with the added pleasures that adult plots and adult characters can bring. . . . Unputdownable. The Snowman is probably the most terrifying and certainly the most addictive book in the whole series. -- Slate This is crime writing of the highest order, in which the characters are as strong as the story, where an atmosphere of evil permeates, and the tension begins in the first chapter and never lets up. -- The Times (London) Spine-chilling. . . . This most ambitious of Nesbo's crime novels banishes any fears that the omniscient serial killer scenario has been exhausted. -- The Independent (London) Ma

Jo Nesbo is my new favorite thriller writer and Harry Hole my new hero. --Michael Connelly <br> With Henning Mankell having written his last Wallander novel and Stieg Larsson no longer with us, I have had to make the decision on whom to confer the title of best current Nordic writer of crime fiction. After finishing Jo Nesbo's The Snowman, I hesitate no longer . . . This is crime writing of the highest order, in which the characters are as strong as the story, where an atmosphere of evil permeates, and the tension begins in the first chapter and never lets up. -- Times (UK) <br> The Snowman is a superb thriller--smart, stylish, beautifully paced and meticulously plotted . . . Nesbo is such an insightful portraitist that Hole and all the secondary characters are convincing at just about every bloody turn . . . The psychological aspects of the novel are on a par with Ruth Rendell's inspector Wexford mysteries. Ultimately, though, what sets Nesbo apart is his ability to keep

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JO NESBØ is a musician, songwriter, economist, and #1 New York Times best-selling author. He has won the Raymond Chandler Award for Lifetime Achievement as well as many other awards. His books have sold 55 million copies worldwide and have been translated into 50 languages. His Harry Hole novels include The Redeemer, The Snowman, The Leopard, Phantom, The Thirst, and most recently Knife, and he is also the author of The Son, Headhunters, Macbeth, The Kingdom and several children's books. He lives in Oslo.

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