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...

Oslo, 1970s. Olav, an extremely talented "fixer" whose unexpected capacity for love is as far-reaching as his talent for murder, works for Oslo's crime kingpin, "fixing" anyone who causes him trouble. But it's becoming clear to Olav that the more you know about your boss's business, the more your boss might want you fixed yourself, especially if you've fallen in love with his wife.

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...

How far would you go to be your brother's keeper? Before Roy's father died in the car crash that also killed Roy's mother, he told his teenaged son that it was his job to protect his little brother, Carl, from the world and from Carl's own impulsive nature. Roy took that job seriously, especially after the two were orphaned. But a small part of him was happy when Carl decided that the tiny town of Os in the mountains of Norway wasn't big enough to...

"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"--

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...

Determined to prove the innocence of a young man he helped raise, disgraced former cop Harry Hole embarks on an increasingly dangerous investigation linked to Oslo's most virulent street drug.

Czy to zwykły zbieg okoliczności, że oficer policji zostaje znaleziony martwy w miejscu dawno popełnionej zbrodni, którą badał, ale nie zdołał jej rozwikłać? Gdy w następnych miesiącach taki sam los spotyka kolejnych dwóch funkcjonariuszy, schemat postępowania mordercy staje się równie oczywisty, co potworny: brutalnym zabójstwom policjantów odpowiadają nierozwiązane zbrodnie z przeszłości. W miejscu przestępstw brakuje jakichkolwiek...

Harry Hole wrócił do punktu wyjścia: znowu pije, Rakel wyrzuciła go z domu, ponownie mieszka przy Sofies gate. Pewnego dnia budzi się z obezwładniającym kacem, a na dłoniach i ubraniu ze zdumieniem spostrzega ślady krwi. Kompletnie nic nie pamięta z minionej nocy. Harry wiele przeżył, ale nawet on nie jest gotowy na koszmar, jaki zgotował mu los. Policjant musi zmierzyć się nie tylko ze starym, śmiertelnym wrogiem, ale i ze swoim osobistym...

A tale moving from the final months of World War II to the present, and from the Russian front to contemporary Norway, follows the dual adventures of a freedom-seeking war martyr and an alcoholic police officer who is drawn into a mystery with past origins.