There's a very cinematic jump cut that really did have me tingling. So we do get what I always like to enjoy - a smart criminal being outsmarted in unusual ways, and an author clever enough to invent, then write, both sides well. Nesbo provides some odd common ground between Fred Vargas, with her droll, gnomic, thinking-outside-the-box investigator Adamsberg, and something like the spooky, dark violence of Neil Cross, for example. And I licked my lips the more it went from the former to the latter.
It certainly didn't start as tautly as Cross, however. I did at times seek for less interiorising and less detail fewer conversations (brisk as they might be) in the conference room to show the differences between Hole and his colleagues, and his new relationship with his sexy new colleague, Mrs Bratt.
Still, the book's length allows for a rich depth, letting the unusual get in the way of things, through red herrings galore, side diversions, and quirky instances of procedural. And by the end I felt more in tune with things – it seemed to get more typically Norwegian, while getting darker and creepier. There were several relishable shivers concerning the concluding crime. So while I would still hazard to suggest Hole could do with being lifted out of one of unoriginality, and things could have been more Nordic and more sustained, there was enough to spook, enough drama to drive one through the investigation, and enough uncanny snowmen to make me consider further Nesbo adventures. This is the fifth to be translated to English, leaving out the first two, and the most recent. Some people, finally, may think the author a little too tricksy and teasing. But the Norwegian judges who gave this title two awards for best book of the year clearly disagreed. I must thank Harvill Secker's kind people for my review copy. Jo Nesbo's Harry Hole Novels in Chronological Order If it's more crime-split families featuring alcoholism you seek, we suggest you look first to The Missing by Jane Casey. uk Amazon currently charges £2.99 for standard delivery for orders under £20, over which delivery is free. You can read more book reviews or buy The Snowman by Jo Nesbo and Don Bartlett (translator) at.
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