Jo Nesbo - The Leopard

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Heralded as the next Stieg Larsson Jo Nesbo is not to be missed!  He is a real page turning Author who will have you hooked and back for all his other titles.

Two young women have been found dead. The medical reports reveal that they both had twenty-four stab wounds in their mouths, and that they drowned. In their own blood. With traces of the same sedative in the victims' bloodstreams, pressure is mounting on the police to put the killer behind bars. But the Oslo police force has another problem: the only man who can solve the case doesn't want to be found.

Deeply traumatised by an investigation that threatened the lives of those he holds most dear, Inspector Harry Hole has lost himself in the squalor of Hong Kong's opium dens. When he learns his father is on his deathbed, Harry reluctantly agrees to return to Oslo. He has no intention of working on the case, but his curiosity gets the better of him when a prominent MP is found brutally murdered in a city park. Soon Harry is caught up in the web of a violent killer who will stop at nothing to escape justice.

Jo Nesbo
Jo Nesbo is a musician, songwriter, economist and author. His first crime novel featuring Harry Hole was published in Norway in 1997 and was an instant hit, winning the Glass Key Award for best Nordic crime novel (an accolade shared with Peter H›eg, Henning Mankell and Stieg Larsson).