There was too much evil, too much counter-point and too much that was just not "real".
Whereas to now Nesbo has been building to the level of complexity that others (the UK reviewers, notably) compare to Larsson, I could not help but feel that in this episode he crossed the edge of reality. I regret to say that my favourite Scandinavian Knave detective really pushed the boundaries in this outing. 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. And someone is picking off the guests one by one. 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. 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. But with his father seriously ill in hospital, Harry reluctantly agrees to return to Oslo. 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. There is only one man who can help them, and he doesn’t want to be found. The crime scenes offer no clues, the media is reaching fever pitch, and the police are running out of options. His victims are two young women, both found with twenty-four inexplicable puncture wounds, both drowned in their own blood. In the depths of winter, a killer stalks the city streets.
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