5/22/2023 0 Comments The leopard jo nesbo![]() ![]() He’s found by Kaja Solness, an attractive detective who’s come to bring him back to Oslo to pursue a new serial killer, the one whose handiwork we saw in the opening pages. He has fled Norway, and we catch up with him in Hong Kong, living in a flophouse, smoking opium and dodging gangsters who seek to collect on his gambling debts. “The Leopard” is a sequel to Nesbo’s recent “The Snowman,” in which Hole’s pursuit of a serial killer left him shattered in body and spirit. Gentle souls, bless them, will throw the book down in disgust, but countless others will push on, lusting for more cheap thrills. This is a brilliant scene, in its way, but it’s also stunningly sadistic, both in terms of what the killer is doing to the woman and what the author is doing to the reader. As we watch, this device inflicts a terrible death on her. A young woman - captive, confused, desperate - is in the grip of a fiendish instrument of torture. The novel opens with a four-page exercise in horror. ![]() ![]()
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