The Snowman written by a Norwegian writer Jo Nesbø. Review📝✏️

PLOT: While searching for the missing Birk Becker, Harry Hole comes to the conclusion when the first snow falls, the married women disappear untraceable. For the first time, Harry is confronted with a serial killer in his native land. The culprit, to whom the newspapers gave the nickname The Snowman, bringing Harry to the brink of insanity.

The Snowman is the most notorious book of Jo Nesbø. Therefore, many readers begin to get acquainted with the life of Harry Hole with it. Now Harry Hole stands in a row with the famous detectives: Sherlock Holmes, Nero Wolfe, Hercule Poirot.

The detective lives in Oslo. He has several close friends, is not married. He is a heavy alcoholic and a smoker. He is completely uncontrollable. Despite the fact he has problems with his superiors and colleagues because of alcoholism, he is not fired. Everybody understands he is a brilliant detective.

Jo Nesbø describes the real places and the city is shown completely without embellishment: the favorite places of Hole, where he eats and drinks, which he often visits, the real headquarters of the Police Department, the pool in Frogner Park (Frognerparken), the refuge of neo-Nazis, addicts and prostitutes; all this is described vividly, at different times of the year - with snow and frosts of winter weather and the heat of a particularly warm summer.

I rarely read modern authors but Nesbø struck me. He managed to capture me into the gloomy world of a detective and a maniac with the first phrases. Together with Harry Hole, I scoured the streets of Oslo in search of clues. The combination of a detective and a thriller is truly beneficial. Nesbø was able to describe all the most terrible moments with sufficient restraint, but they gave me a shiver, the descriptions were so concisely and clearly defined. And although the identity of the maniac was clear almost immediately, it was interesting how he would be caught.

As I said it's the seventh book and we meet some characters from previous books. But it does not interfere in the least. A couple of phrases and I knew who those people were.

The writer's attitude toward women was a surprise. They all are lustful, stupid and cheating husbands.

The Snowman finale is bright, tense and dangerous. And even if there is a bust, unnaturalness in some moments, then everything can be forgiven for the pleasure that the novel gives, swinging on the waves of intrigue.

After The Snowman, I read a few more books about this wonderful detective. But I had to stop reading. The fact is that I do not like the main characters with vices, especially if they drink. So I had to say goodbye to Harry Hole. Therefore, I can not read Erich Maria Remarque and watch Jessica Jones. But if it does not scare you, then you like the books written by Jo Nesbø.