The snowman / Jo Nesbø ; translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett.
Material type:
TextLanguage: English Original language: Norwegian Publication details: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.Description: 383 p. ; 25 cmISBN: - 0307595862
- 9780307595867
- Snømannen. English
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Vol info | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Adult Book
|
Dr. James Carlson Library | Mystery | Nesbo Jo | HH 7 | Available | 33111006521658 | ||||
|
Adult Book
|
Main Library | Mystery | Nesbo Jo | HH 7 | Checked out | 06/22/2024 | 33111006377382 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Internationally acclaimed crime writer Jo Nesb#65533;'s antihero police investigator, Harry Hole, is back: in a bone-chilling thriller that will take Hole to the brink of insanity.
Oslo in November. The first snow of the season has fallen. A boy named Jonas wakes in the night to find his mother gone. Out his window, in the cold moonlight, he sees the snowman that inexplicably appeared in the yard earlier in the day. Around its neck is his mother's pink scarf.
Hole suspects a link between a menacing letter he's received and the disappearance of Jonas's mother--and of perhaps a dozen other women, all of whom went missing on the day of a first snowfall. As his investigation deepens, something else emerges: he is becoming a pawn in an increasingly terrifying game whose rules are devised--and constantly revised--by the killer.
Fiercely suspenseful, its characters brilliantly realized, its atmosphere permeated with evil, The Snowman is the electrifying work of one of the best crime writers of our time.
"Originally published in Norway as Snømannen by H. Aschehoug & Co. (W. Nygaard), Oslo, in 2007. This translation originally published in Great Britain by Harvill Secker, an imprint of the Random House Group Ltd., London, in 2010"--T.p. verso.
"In Oslo, after the first snow of the season has fallen, a woman disappears, and a sinister snowman is left in her wake. As irascible detective Harry Hole realizes that this is only one of multiple disappearances, he begins to think a serial killer may be at work--and may be drawing in Hole personally and intentionally"-- Provided by publisher.