NESBO #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHÖR OF COCKROACHES THE SNOWMAN

"If you don't know Nesbo, it's time to get with it." -USA TODAY The snow in the yard reflected enough light for him to make out the snowman down below.... The pebble-eyes were gleaming. They were looking up. Up here. One night, after the year's first snowfall, a boy named Jonas wakes up and discovers that his mother has disappeared. Only one trace of her remains: a pink scarf, his Christmas gift to her, now worn by the snowman that inexplicably appeared in their yard earlier that day. Inspector Harry Hole suspects a link between the missing woman and a suspicious letter he's received. The case deepens when a pattern emerges: over the past decade, eleven women have vanished--all on the day of the first snow. But this is a killer who makes his own rules... and he'll break his pattern just to keep the game interesting, as he draws Harry ever closer into his twisted web.