In addition to writing and music, Nesbo is a dedicated rock climber and has climbed sport routes up to French grade 7c. On the airplane for 30 hours, he fleshed out a story on his laptop-about a guy named Harry-and the rest is publishing history. Although the band-Di Derre (Them There)-topped the Norwegian charts with its second album-and their concerts were all sell-outs-Nesbo continued crunching numbers by day while gigging at night.Įventually exhausted and burned out, Nesbo took flight, literally, to Australia.

He also found time to form a rock band as main vocalist and songwriter. Graduating with a degree in Economics and Business Administration, Nesbo worked as a stockbroker and then financial analyst. Later he applied to and was accepted at the Norwegian School of Economics. When he could no longer play sports, he signed up for military service, spending spent three years in Norway's far north. He played top-flight football (soccer) for Molde FK until he tore the cruciate ligaments in his knee at the age of 18. Jo Nesbo is a Norwegian author, musician, and former business analyst, whose books have been translated into over 50 languages and sold 23 million copies. Education-Norwegian School of Economics.As his investigation deepens, something else emerges: he is becoming a pawn in an increasingly terrifying game whose rules are devised-and constantly revised-by the killer.įiercely suspenseful, its characters brilliantly realized, its atmosphere permeated with evil, The Snowman is the electrifying work of one of the best crime writers of our time. Hole suspects a link between a menacing letter he’s received and the disappearance of Jonas’s mother-and of perhaps a dozen other women, all of whom went missing on the day of a first snowfall. Around its neck is his mother’s pink scarf. Out his window, in the cold moonlight, he sees the snowman that inexplicably appeared in the yard earlier in the day. A boy named Jonas wakes in the night to find his mother gone. Internationally acclaimed crime writer Jo Nesbo’s antihero police investigator, Harry Hole, is back: in a bone-chilling thriller that will take Hole to the brink of insanity.

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