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A review by hayesstw
The Snowman by Jo Nesbø
4.0
I came to this book after reading [b:The Leopard|625094|The Leopard|Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176424490s/625094.jpg|1132275] by the same author, which I found disappointing. My wife bought it, and I wasn't particularly keen to read it, as I thought it might be similarly disappointing, and was pleasantly surprised to find that it was vintage [a:Jo Nesbø|904719|Jo Nesbø|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1229353244p2/904719.jpg], except perhaps for the last couple of chapters.
Oslo detective Harry Hole is asked to investigate the case of a missing woman with his new partner Katrine Bratt, who urges him to check older unsolved cases in Bergen that seem to have some similarities. When a second missing woman is found murdered, it seems that a serial killer may be at work.
Towards the end, however, the story shows the same descent into the improbable that characterises [b:The Leopard|625094|The Leopard|Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176424490s/625094.jpg|1132275] throughout, and the figure of the boozy Scandiwegian detective seems well on its way to becoming a literary cliche. Perhaps this is because Nesbø's publishers have taken to hyping him as "the next [a:Stieg Larsson|706255|Stieg Larsson|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1246466225p2/706255.jpg]", which is a pity, because Nesbø writes better as Nesbø than as a faux Stieg Larsson.
Oslo detective Harry Hole is asked to investigate the case of a missing woman with his new partner Katrine Bratt, who urges him to check older unsolved cases in Bergen that seem to have some similarities. When a second missing woman is found murdered, it seems that a serial killer may be at work.
Towards the end, however, the story shows the same descent into the improbable that characterises [b:The Leopard|625094|The Leopard|Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176424490s/625094.jpg|1132275] throughout, and the figure of the boozy Scandiwegian detective seems well on its way to becoming a literary cliche. Perhaps this is because Nesbø's publishers have taken to hyping him as "the next [a:Stieg Larsson|706255|Stieg Larsson|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1246466225p2/706255.jpg]", which is a pity, because Nesbø writes better as Nesbø than as a faux Stieg Larsson.