Livro The Leopard

With Henning Mankell having written his last Wallander novel and Stieg Larsson no longer with us, I have had to make the decision on whom to confer the title of best current Nordic writer of crime fiction .

. . Jo Nesbo wins. Marcel Berlins, "The Times "(U.K.) Two young women are found murdered in Oslo, both drowned in their own blood. Media coverage quickly reaches fever pitch: Could this be the work of a serial killer?

The crime scenes offer no coherent clues, the police investigation is stalled, and the one man who might be able to help doesn t want to be found. Traumatized by his last case, Inspector Harry Hole has lost himself in the squalor of Hong Kong s opium dens.

Yet when he is compelled, at last, to return to Norway his father is dying Harry s buried instincts begin to take over. After a female MP is discovered brutally murdered, nothing can keep him from the investigation.

There is little to go on: a piece of rope, a scrap of wool, a bit of gravel, an unexpected connection between the victims. And Harry will soon come to understand that he is dealing with a psychopath for whom insanity is a vital retreat, someone who will put him to the test in both his professional and personal lives as never before.

Ruthlessly intelligent and suspenseful, "The Leopard" is Jo Nesbo s most electrifying novel yet absolutely gripping from first to last."