"Christmas shoppers stop to hear a Salvation Army concert on a crowded Oslo street. A gunshot cuts through the music and the bitter cold: one of the singers falls dead, shot in the head at point-blank range. Harry Hole--the Oslo Police Department's best investigator and worst civil servant--has little to work with: no suspect, no weapon, and no motive. But Harry's troubles will multiply. As the search closes in, the killer becomes increasingly desperate,...

In the depths of winter, a killer stalks the city streets. His victims are two young women, both found with inexplicable puncture wounds. The police are running out of options. Deeply traumatised by a previous investigation, Inspector Harry Hole has lost himself in the squalor of Hong Kong's opium dens. But with his father seriously ill, Harry reluctantly agrees to return to Oslo. He has no intention of working on the case, but his instinct takes...

"In Oslo, after the first snow of the season has fallen, a woman disappears, and a sinister snowman is left in her wake. As irascible detective Harry Hole realizes that this is only one of multiple disappearances, he begins to think a serial killer may be at work--and may be drawing in Hole personally and intentionally"--

Brilliant, audaciously rogue police officer, Harry Hole from The Snowman and The Thirst, is back and in the throes of a new, unanticipated rage -- once again hunting the murderer who has haunted his entire career. Harry Hole is not in a good place. Rakel -- the only woman he's ever loved -- has ended it with him, permanently. He's been given a chance for a new start with the Oslo Police but it's in the cold case office, when what he really wants is...

When Harry left Oslo again for Hong Kong, fleeing the traumas of life as a cop, he thought he was there for good. But then the unthinkable happened. The son of the woman he loved, lost, and still loves is arrested for murder: Oleg, the boy Harry helped raise but couldn't help deserting when he fled. Harry has come back to prove that Oleg is not a killer. Barred from rejoining the police force, he sets out on a solitary, increasingly dangerous investigation...

'W zasypanym śniegiem Oslo inspektor Harry Hole ściga nieuchwytnego płatnego zabójcę z byłej Jugosławii. Przeczesuje środowiska narkomanów, dewiantów, członków Armii Zbawienia wyczekujących nowego zbawiciela, który ma ich wyzwolić od beznadziei życia - choćby przez śmierć. Inspektor Harry Hole to policyjny anarchista stosujący metody dalekie od procedur, nieprzystosowany do życia nałogowy palacz i alkoholik. Przed wyrzuceniem...

"Młoda kobieta zostaje zamordowana we własnym mieszkaniu tuż po internetowej randce. Ślady na jej ciele wskazują, że sprawca jest wyjątkowo bezwzględny. Presja mediów, by znaleźć winnego, sprawia, że policja zwraca się do Harry'ego Hole. Były śledczy niechętnie myśli o powrocie do pracy, przez które wiele w życiu stracił. Rozpoczyna dochodzenie dopiero, gdy zaczyna podejrzewać, że zbrodnia łączy się z nierozwizan spraw z przeszłości....

When the Norwegian ambassador to Thailand is found dead in a Bangkok brothel, Inspector Harry Hole is dispatched from Oslo to help hush up the case. But once he arrives Harry discovers that this case is about much more than one random murder. There is something else, something more pervasive, scrabbling around behind the scenes. Or, put another way, for every cockroach you see in your hotel room, there are hundreds behind the walls. Surrounded by...