The Leopard: Harry Hole 8 - Hardcover

Nesbo, Jo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1846554004 ISBN 13: 9781846554001

Publisher: Harvill Secker, 2011

Synopsis

In the depths of winter, a killer stalks the city streets. His victims are two young women, both found with twenty-four inexplicable puncture wounds, both drowned in their own blood. The crime scenes offer no clues, the media is reaching fever pitch, and the police are running out of options. There is only one man who can help them, and he doesn’t want to be found.

Deeply traumatised by The Snowman investigation, which threatened the lives of those he holds most dear, Inspector Harry Hole has lost himself in the squalor of Hong Kong’s opium dens. But with his father seriously ill in hospital, Harry reluctantly agrees to return to Oslo. He has no intention of working on the case, but his instinct takes over when a third victim is found brutally murdered in a city park.

The victims appear completely unconnected to one another, but it’s not long before Harry makes a discovery: the women all spent the night in an isolated mountain hostel. And someone is picking off the guests one by one.

A heart-stopping thriller from the bestselling author of the The Snowman, The Leopard is an international phenomenon that will grip you until the final page.

About this title

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' -- TLS, December 13, 2010

`There are passages [which are] so anatomically gruesome... that they can only be properly read through the gaps between protecting fingers' -- Prospect, December 13, 2010

`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' --Literary Review, December 6, 2010

`Nesbo ratchets up the tension with a relentless urgency' --Marie Claire, January 7, 2011

`powerful writing, a plot of chilling, gripping grimness, and the hero Oslo cop Harry Hole descending even farther into his emotional maelstrom' --Saturday Times, January 11, 2011

`The plot of The Leopard is intriguing ,and Nesbo's writing is as taut as ever'
--Sunday Times, January 11, 2011

'Outstanding ... Probably the best big crime novel you could lay your hands on this year' --BBC Radio 4, January 18, 2011

` Nesbo is truly one of his capital's great literary celebrants... The Leopard's unflagging narrative tension, breathtaking surprises and many confrontations with half-suspected treachery (well served by translator Don Bartlett's ear for dialogue) are superb' --The Independent, January 18, 2011

`comes just in time for fans who, since The Snowmans, have been dying for more murder and mayhem in the frozen north... Harry is the quintessential detective: battle -scarred, world-weary, chain smoking, alcoholic but with a razor sharp mind and, of course, fantastically attractive to women.' --The Irish Times, January 18, 2011

`thoroughly compelling.' --Mail on Sunday,

Book Description:

A heart-stopping thriller from the international star the Independent has called 'The next Stieg Larsson'.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvill Secker
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1846554004
• ISBN 13: 9781846554001
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 624