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Okay, now I'm scared.

Thanks Pickle I'm torn. I think I've pretty much decided to read Lee Child's 61 Hours before I read The Leopard, as I have the sequel to that one waiting to go as well. Plus I'm worried that I won't enjoy The Leopard so much if I read it straight after such a fantastic finish to The Snowman So you hate waiting and I'm forcing myself to wait

Would he still be wearing his dirty mac whilst sitting there, though?

Thanks pontalba

Finished The Snowman. Wow. I've reviewed it here. Now I have to decide whether to plunge straight into The Leopard or to read something else first. Life's so hard sometimes

The Snowman by Jo Nesbo Phew, where to begin? Maybe, as the book does, in 1980, as a mother leaves her son in the car whilst she goes into the house for a liaison with her lover whilst a snowman watches on from the garden. Or in 2004, when Harry Hole receives a letter telling him that The Snowman will appear again, and a family looks out into the night to see a snowman watching them from the lawn. It's not a hokey as it sounds As you can tell, it's a story that ties together events that have taken place over quite a span of years and, when Harry's suspicions are aroused and he begins to tie together the disapearances of several women, the red herrings start flying thick and fast. The thing I found with The Snowman is that I thought I knew who the killer was, and I thought I knew where it was going, and although I was part right it still had me hanging on by my fingernails as it reached its brilliant, breath-taking conclusion. Nesbo has this ability to build an air of menace, and it is rampant in this book. He tells his stories with such inventiveness and pace that, at times, it's almost annoying. This is an intricately plotted, fast-moving, exciting and scary story. Even though I could see what was going to happen from the very early stages of the book, by the time it came to pass it still really had me going, as I mentioned before. I almost couldn't turn the pages fast enough. And that, to mind, is quite a display of writing talent. Nesbo's like a conductor, mastering tempo and set-pieces with ease, and his set-ups and pay-offs rarely misfire. He makes me very jealous. So, basically, I loved it. I think it might even have overtaken The Redbreast as my favourite to date, and I feel justified in saying that because - for the first time since The Redbreast - I think he's actually come up with a suspense sequence that tops the one in that novel. And that really takes some doing. I'm not going to hang about with this one. The guy's a genius. Look out for that mould. 10/10 p.s. Trailers for books? When did that happen ... . C'mon someone - we've had a Wallander series, and The Killing from Denmark - surely it's time for someone to actually make a series about Norway's maverick detective?

Just finished Jo Nesbo's The Snowman. My heart is still pounding

It's about a teenage girl called Ree Dolly living in the Ozark mountains, whose father goes missing and leaves her to look after her two brothers and her mentally ill mother. Then the police turn up and tell her that, unless her father turns up for a hearing in a few days time, their house and everything they own will be taken from them. So she sets off in search of him. That's it in a nutshell. I highly recommend reading the book as well, it's excellent. It's by Daniel Woodrell.

So it's true - we did send a load of criminals to Australia!

That was one of my faves out of the ones I've read so far. A very tangled web, if I remember rightly. And it was good to see Reacher before he became such a blimmin' know-it-all

I don't suppose it'll happen, but I'd really like to see Jennifer Lawrence win Best Actress for her performance in Winter's Bone. Also, I loved Toy Story 3 but I'm kind of hoping that How To Train Your Dragon wins Best Animation.

The one I read was excellent. I'll be interested to hear what you think

I read the first book around the middle of last year and still haven't read the other two. It's not that I didn't enjoy it - I really did - but other authors (*cough*Nesbo*cough*) are far better, imo. I did buy the second and third books for £2.44 each for the Kindle yesterday, though, so I will get to them at some point soon

Well I've already got my next three books planned ... sort of ... so maybe after those

It sounds a bit like A Scientific Romance by Ronald Wright

At the risk of going OT, has anyone here read Steven Saylor's Gordianus books, set in ancient Rome? I've only read the first one, Roman Blood, and it was very similar to Sansom's novels in terms of weaving real-life characters and history into a murder mystery. There's twelve books in the series so far. Steven Saylor - Roma Sub Rosa series Roman Blood

Oh gawd. I was intending to read 61 Hours next week. Now all I'll be able to see is a Jack Reacher who looks like Hulk Hogan Thanks Pickle!!

I'm looking forward to reading this. I've had it sitting on the shelf for a while as I've been trying not to read them too quickly in succession, and to savour the series as a result. All that means, though, is that I'm just not getting around to it, so now it seems that 'savouring' it equates to 'just read the bloody thing already'

Have you read The Devil's Star, Maureen? It fits in between Nemesis and The Redeemer, and ties up some fairly major plot threads from the first two books I'm about 350 pages into The Snowman now. It's fab isn't it?

I'm about 250 pages into The Snowman

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Join the club Our batsman are looking mentally tired, to me. It's always an issue for touring teams I guess, but some of our test batsman could've done with a break, imo.

I'd never heard of him until now. Reading some reviews on Amazon his books sound like they might be my kind of thing so, although I can't answer your question, thanks for the heads up

Read the first 100 pages or so of Jo Nesbo's The Snowman.

Thanks Brida Decided to read Jo Nesbo's The Snowman next