

By the end, he's ready to concede that what he most wants is "an armored heart. Hole, put through the emotional wringer in The Snowman, doesn't get much of a reprieve in this intense outing. Nesb moves the action easily from Hong Kong to Norway, with side trips to the Democratic Republic of Congo, without ever losing the plot's sense of urgency. When a mid-level politician's body is discovered in a possible suicide that's soon dubbed murder, Hole realizes a single killer is at work and not yet done.


Back in Norway, little links two murdered women except the unusual stab wounds in their mouths. Considered an expert after catching the serial killer known as the Snowman, Harry is marginally intrigued by the possibility of another serial killer loose in Oslo. Harry Hole reluctantly agrees to return home from Hong Kong, where he's been hiding out for months, after an Oslo Crime Squad colleague tells him his father is in the hospital. Ruthlessly intelligent and suspenseful, The Leopard is Jo Nesbø’s most electrifying novel yetabsolutely gripping from first to last. In Nesb 's outstanding follow-up to The Snowman, Insp.
