'The Snowman' is Nesbø’s fifth internationally acclaimed novel featuring Inspector Harry Hole to be translated into English. Winner of the Glass Key Award for best Nordic crime novel, Jo Nesbø’s books have been translated into thirty languages.
The night the first snow falls, a young boy wakes to find his mother gone. In the garden looms a solitary figure: a snowman bathed in cold moonlight. Round its neck is his mother’s pink scarf. Inspector Harry Hole is convinced there is a link between the disappearance and a letter he received some months earlier. When a second woman disappears his suspicions are confirmed and 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.
After three years military service multitalented Nesbø attended business school and formed the band Di Derre. Their second album topped the charts in Norway, but Nesbø continued working as a financial analyst, crunching numbers during the day and gigging at night. When commissioned by a publisher to write a memoir about life on the road with his band, he instead came up with the plot for his first Harry Hole crime novel.
All of Jo Nesbø's books about Inspector Hole have received rave reviews in the UK and his latest novel is no exception. To read Marcel Berlins' review of The Snowman in The Times, click here. To read Barry Forshaw's review in The Independent of the same book, click here.