The Leopard
by Jo Nesbo translated by Don Bartlett
From the bestselling author of The Snowman - an explosive new thriller.In the depths of winter a killer stalks the city streets. Two women are found drowned in their own blood. A third woman is hanged from a diving board.
YOU ARE ALLOWING THIS KILLING TO GO ON.
The crime scenes offer no clues, the media is reaching fever pitch, and the police are running out of options.
IT'S TIME THIS WAS STOPPED...
There is only one man who can help them catch the killer. But Inspector Harry Hole doesn't want to be found.
...BECAUSE I HAVE APPOINTED THE NEXT VICTIM.
Reviews
‘It’s fascinating to discover, from the incident details, what it is like to live for much of the time in a world under snow…. Nesbo writes beautifully’Jessica Mann - Literary Review ‘Nesbo’s novels keep going when you think there can’t be any more twists to follow. Scenes switch from the avalanche-threatened ravines and mountain cabins of back-country Norway, close to oil-rich Stavanger and metropolitan Oslo, to an active volcano in Africa’
Times Literary Supplement ‘There are passages [which are] so anatomically gruesome... that they can only be properly read through the gaps between protecting fingers’
Prospect ‘A cracking good thriller’
Guardian ‘Original Norwegian noir…absorbing’
Tom Huddleston - Time Out ‘Will keep you guessing until last page.’
Best ‘The Leopard once again proves his undoubted talents for crime fiction with a Scandinavian setting’
Press Association ‘If you like detective fiction, you'll love this’
Irish Independent ‘So is THE LEOPARD as good as THE SNOWMAN? In my opinion it's better. More layered with more suspicious characters, red-herrings and locations than ever before’
Eurocrime blog ‘Nesbo is such a terrific action writer’
Daily Telegraph
