A young boy and his father is preparing dinner while waiting for their mother to come home. While waiting, the boy looks outside the window to see a snowman. But there is something that strikes him as odd about the snowman. It is standing the wrong way. Facing the house with that smile on its face...

Once again, detective Harry Hole faces a difficult case when he recieves anynomous letters signed by "Snømannen". After some investigation, Hole finds connections to old cases with women disappearing on the first day of snow. Soon, Harry Hole has a serialkiller on his hands and the tracks leads him back in time and to the city of Bergen. 

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For those who decide to read this book and isn't particularly fond of scary things... DO NOT read it during the winter-time... I did and had to give up. Instead I read it during my summer holiday and when I had finished it, at 2am, I was to mortified to get out of bed and turn off the lights...