Blood on Snow

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Nesbø topped the charts twice in 2014, with Police, the latest thriller starring the brilliant but troubled alcoholic detective Harry Hole, and with stand-alone crime novel The Son. Blood On Snow is another stand-alone for the Norwegian superstar author, a short, pacy little thriller which, instead of delving into the psyche of a morally dubious cop, reveals a villain with a heart. Nesbø’s much-heralded gifts are on display—using his talent for conjuring the chilly Munch-like atmospherics of Oslo in the winter and his eye for grisly, alarming details that slam home the horror of the evil that men do.”— The New York Times Book Review The Evening Post had said that if the cold carried on like this until New Year, 1977 would be the coldest year since the war, and that we’d remember it as the start of the new ice age scientists had been predicting for a while. But what did I know? All I knew was that the man standing in front of me would soon be dead. There was no mistaking the way his body was shaking. He was one of the Fisherman’s men. It was nothing personal. I told him as much before he collapsed, leaving a smear of blood down the wall. If I ever get shot, I’d rather it was personal. I didn’t say it to stop his ghost coming after me – I don’t believe in ghosts. I just couldn’t think of anything else to say. Obviously I could have just kept my mouth shut. That’s what I usually do, after all. So there must have been something that made me so talkative all of a sudden. Maybe it was because there were only a few days to go before Christmas. I’ve heard that people are supposed to feel closer to each other around Christmas. But what do I know?

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A film adaptation of The Snowman, with Tomas Alfredson directing (replacing Martin Scorsese, who executive produced), and starring Michael Fassbender, Rebecca Ferguson, and Charlotte Gainsbourg, [14] premiered in October 2017. [15] The Doctor Proctor series [ edit ] Nesbø revels in his knowing cliche of the tortured criminal soul, in Olav’s apparent slowness but secret brilliance. The author makes much – too much – of this. The character is always slipping in clunky asides, protesting too much as he says things like “I don’t know much about evolution and stuff like that, but didn’t Darwin say there were only six universal facial expressions for human emotions?”, and “according to that Hume bloke, the fact that I had until now woken up every morning in the same body, into the same world, where what had happened had actually happened, was no guarantee that the same thing would happen again tomorrow morning”.

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Child, Ben (9 September 2015). "Michael Fassbender set to star in Jo Nesbø's The Snowman". The Guardian . Retrieved 31 July 2016. Hoffmann said that was good. As usual, he didn’t ask any questions. Either he’d learned to trust me in the course of the four years I’d been working as a fixer for him, or else he didn’t actually want to know. The job was done, so why would a man like him trouble himself with that sort of thing when what he was paying for was to have fewer problems? Hoffmann asked me to go down to the office the next day – he said he had a new job for me.