The night the first snow falls a young boy wakes to find his mother gone He walks through the silent house but finds only wet footprints on the stairs In the garden looms a solitary figure a snowman bathed in cold moonlight its black eyes glaring up at the bedroom windows Round its neck is his mother's pink scarf Inspector Harry Hole is convinced there is a link between the disappearance & a menacing letter he received some months earlier As Harry & his team delve into unsolved case files they discover that an alarming number of wives & mothers have gone missing over the years When a second woman disappears Harry's suspicions are confirmed he is a pawn in a deadly game For the first time in his career Harry finds himself confronted with a serial killer operating on his turf a killer who will drive him to the brink of insanity A brilliant thriller with a pace that never lets up The Snowman confirms Jo Nesbo's position as an international star of crime fiction