The Leopard

From Goodreads:

In the depths of winter, a killer stalks the city streets. His victims are two young women, both found with twenty-four inexplicable puncture wounds, both drowned in their own blood. The crime scenes offer no clues, the media is reaching fever pitch, and the police are running out of options. There is only one man who can help them, and he doesn’t want to be found.
Deeply traumatised by The Snowman investigation, which threatened the lives of those he holds most dear, Inspector Harry Hole has lost himself in the squalor of Hong Kong’s opium dens. But with his father seriously ill in hospital, Harry reluctantly agrees to return to Oslo. He has no intention of working on the case, but his instinct takes over when a third victim is found brutally murdered in a city park.
The victims appear completely unconnected to one another, but it’s not long before Harry makes a discovery: the women all spent the night in an isolated mountain hostel. And someone is picking off the guests one by one.
A heart-stopping thriller from the bestselling author of the The Snowman, The Leopard is an international phenomenon that will grip you until the final page.

My Review: After the Snowman Harry Hole goes to Hong Kong and hides until someone is sent to fetch him to solve another murder(s) in Norway. At first he resisted but then he ends up going when told his father is ill.

If you have read the Snowman and thought that book was violent you haven’t read nothing yet. This book takes violence to a whole new level. This book is defiantly not for the squeamish at heart.

The plot as before is amazing and believable. Nesbo take the reader on a unforgettable journey across three continents and you wont soon forget the ride. It is filled with violence mystery and vengeance and deaths and legends.

Ever time that I thought I knew who the murderer was I was proven wrong. There were twist and turns and situations that I thought there was no plausible way that Harry would get himself out of this one. Bur he did and in such a way that it only adds plausibility to the story.

If there is one thing I hate and that draws me out of a story it is to add something that in the world of the book is unbelievable. Nesbo avoids this with flair. His imagination comes through to deliver a story that will have you sitting at the edge of your seat and frantically turning pages to see if Harry lives or dies. A must read.