The night the first snow falls a young boy wakes to find his mother gone. He walks through the silent house, but finds only wet footprints on the stairs. In the garden looms a solitary figure: a snowman bathed in cold moonlight, its black eyes glaring up at the bedroom windows. Round its neck is his mother’s pink scarf.
Inspector Harry Hole is convinced there is a link between the disappearance and a menacing letter he received some months earlier. As Harry and his team delve into unsolved case files, they discover that an alarming number of wives and mothers have gone missing over the years. When a second woman disappears Harry’s suspicions are confirmed: he is a pawn in a deadly game. 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.
A brilliant thriller with a pace that never lets up, The Snowman confirms Jo Nesbø’s position as an international star of crime fiction.
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Jo Nesbø is a musician, songwriter, economist and author. His first crime novel featuring Harry Hole was published in Norway in 1997 and was an instant hit, winning the Glass Key Award for best Nordic crime novel (an accolade shared with Peter Høeg, Henning Mankell and Stieg Larsson). The Snowman is the fifth of Nesbø's novels to be translated into English. Check out www.jonesbo.co.uk
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他们动身离开了雪人,可是詹姆斯还舍不得走。他转过身,跑回到雪人身边,伸出两只胳膊把他搂住,一次次地抱紧他。他希望这拥抱永远不要结東。
可是他接着又想:“其实我们谁都不孤单,不是真的孤单。有时候我们以为自己孤单,但是我知道外面有这只猫头鹰,还知道外面有那个雪人。楼下还有说话声。所以我并不孤单,并不真的孤单。”
正义是一把很钝的刀,不管在哲学或审判的层面都是如此
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