In the depths of winter, a killer stalks the town streets. His victims are two young women, both discovered with twenty-four inexplicable puncture wounds, both drowned within their personal blood. The crime scenes offer no signs, the media is normally achieving fever pitch, and the authorities are operating out of options. There is only one guy who might help them, and he doesn’t desire to be discovered.

Deeply traumatised with the Snowman investigation, which threatened the lives of those he holds most dear, Inspector Harry Hole has approximately The Leopard: Harry Hole 8 lost himself in the squalor of Hong Kong’s opium dens. But along with his father seriously ill in medical center, Harry reluctantly agrees to return to Oslo. He does not have any intention of working on the case, but his instinct gets control when a third sufferer is found brutally murdered within a city park.

The victims appear completely unconnected to one another, but it isn’t long before Harry makes a discovery: the ladies all spent the night time in an isolated hill hostel. And someone is picking off the guests one at a time.

A heart-stopping thriller from the bestselling writer of the The Snowman, The Leopard can be an international sensation that will grip you before final page.