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Blood on Snow

From the internationally acclaimed author of the Harry Hole novels — a fast, tight, darkly lyrical stand-alone novel that has at its center the perfectly sympathetic antihero: an Oslo contract killer who draws us into an unexpected meditation on death and love.

This is the story of Olav: an extremely talented “fixer” for one of Oslo’s most powerful crime bosses. But Olav is also an unusually complicated fixer. He has a capacity for love that is as far-reaching as is his gift for murder. He is our straightforward, calm-in-the-face-of-crisis narrator with a storyteller’s hypnotic knack for fantasy. He has an “innate talent for subordination” but running through his veins is a “virus” born of the power over life and death. And while his latest job puts him at the pinnacle of his trade, it may be mutating into his greatest mistake... .

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 207
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780385354196
  • Settings
  • Oslo
  • Genres
  • crime, fiction, mystery, thriller, audiobook, noir, suspense
  • Release date
  • 2015