Title In This Collection The Leopard 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 & the police are running out of options ITS TIME THIS WAS STOPPED There is only one man who can help them catch the killer But Inspector Harry Hole doesnt want to be found BECAUSE I HAVE APPOINTED THE NEXT VICTIM The Devils Star A young woman is murdered in her flat & a tiny red diamond in the shape of a fivepointed star is found behind her eyelid Detective Harry Hole is assigned to the case alongside his longtime adversary Tom Waaler & initially wants no part in it Headhunters Roger Brown has it all clever & wealthy hes at the very top of his game & if his job as a headhunter ever gets dull he has his sideline as an art thief to keep him busy The Redbreast A report of a rare & unusual gun a type favoured by assassins being smuggled into the country sparks Detective Harry Holes interest Then a former WW2 Nazi sympathizer is found with his throat cut Next Harrys former partner is murdered Why had she been trying to reach Harry on the night she was killed Nemesis Summer 1944 In the stifling heat of equatorial Newark a terrifying epidemic is raging threatening the children of the New Jersey city with maiming paralysis lifelong disability even death Vigorous decent twentythree year old playground director Bucky Cantor is devoted to his charges & disappointed with himself because his weak eyes have excluded him from serving in the war The Snowman Beware the falling snow The first snowfall in Oslo brings a series of gruesome murders & Harry Hole is pitted against a brutal killer who will drive him to the edge The Redeemer It is a freezing December night & Christmas shoppers have gathered to listen to a Salvation Army carol concert Then a shot rings out & one of the singers falls to the floor dead Detective Harry Hole & his team are called in to investigate but have little to work with there is no immediate suspect no weapon & no motive But when the assassin discovers hes shot the wrong man Harry finds his troubles have only just begun