SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOVIE STARRING MICHAEL FASSBENDER OVER 30 MILLION BOOKS SOLD WORLDWIDE The first snow will come. A young boy wakes to find his mother missing. Their house is empty but outside in the garden he sees his mother's favourite scarf - wrapped around the neck of a snowman.
And then he will appear again.As Harry Hole and his team begin their investigation they discover that an alarming number of wives and mothers have gone missing over the years.
And when the snow is gone...When a second woman disappears it seems that Harry's worst suspicions are confirmed: for the first time in his career Harry finds himself confronted with a serial killer operating on his home turf.
...he will have taken someone else.***
[IT WAS THE day the snow came]***
(Vintage, 5 October 2017, movie tie-in ARC provided by the publisher via NetGalley and voluntarily reviewed)
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This is my first case with Harry Hole and definitely won't be my last.
I was gripped from the opening of The Snowman all the way to the end. This book is unmissable and I really want to see the movie as well.
Harry Hole is a great character. He has shades of light and dark, is unconventional to say the least, moves to the beat of his own drummer and is wonderfully human and flawed. I sort of have a crush on him.
I loved the idea behind the book. I will never look at snow or snowmen in the same way again. My flesh is still crawling.
The Snowman offers brilliant misdirection, by pointing the finger at someone who, on paper at least, clearly seems to be the killer before pulling the rug from under your feet. I love it when writers jump out of closets in strange places for one final twist.
