Snowman (Movie Cover)

Considered by the English newspaper The Guardian to be Jo Nesbø's most ambitious book and compared to The Silence of the Lambs by The Times , Snowman is the most chilling book by one of the most acclaimed Norwegian authors.

November; the first snow of the year falls on the cold city of Oslo. Little Jonas wakes in the middle of the night and realizes his mother is not home. He walks through the silent hallways until he comes across wet footprints on the stairs. In the garden, he notices a solitary figure: a snowman under the moonlight, his dark eyes turned toward the bedroom window. Around his white neck is a pink scarf, the scarf the boy gave his mother for Christmas.

The next day, neighbors call the police, and Inspector Harry Hole is summoned. While it's common for missing people to return with a trivial explanation, he suspects a connection between Jonas's mother's fate and a letter she received signed by the self-proclaimed "Snowman." As they investigate, the inspector and his team encounter several similar unsolved cases from the last decade: always married women with children, always during the first snowfall of the year.

When a second woman disappears and a macabre snowman is found near the forest where she lives, Harry realizes that, for the first time, he's confronting a serial killer on his own turf. However, this is a killer who creates his own rules, willing to break the rules just to keep the game interesting, while drawing the inspector into a complex and deadly plot.

The Snowman is a gripping thriller, with a pace that draws the reader in from the very first line, which will please fans of Stieg Larsson, Thomas Harris, and others of the genre. Adapted for the big screen in 2017, directed by Tomas Alfredson with Michael Fassbender as Harry Potter, this book is the perfect gateway into the dark universe of Jo Nesbø , one of Europe's bestselling authors who has gained a cult following.

“Fiendishly complex and terribly enjoyable.” The New York Times Book Review

“As chilling as The Silence of the Lambs .” The Sunday Times

“A quality thriller, with characters as powerful as the story, a constant evil atmosphere and tension from beginning to end” The Times