A tattered dress hung from the rotten branch of a pine tree. To the elderly man, it reminded him of a song from his childhood, which spoke of a dress hung out to dry. Only this one did not flutter in the south wind, as the song said, but with the icy water of a river where the snow was melting. It was completely silent there, at the bottom of the river, and although it was five in the afternoon, March, and the sky was clear above the water’s surface, according to the weather forecasts, the sunlight barely reached down there, as it had to pass through a layer of ice and four meters of water. Branch and dress floated in a strange greenish half-darkness. The dress was summer, he realized immediately, and it had polka dots, which now looked blue. Perhaps it once had color, who knows, depending on how long it had been down there, tangled in the branch. And now it fluttered in the endless current, which washed it and caressed it when the river level was low, which pulled and moved it when it swelled, gradually tearing it apart. In this sense, the tattered dress resembled him, the old man thought. Once this dress meant something to someone, to a girl, a woman, to the embrace of a man or the gaze of a baby. But now, like him, it was lost, forgotten, without purpose, captive, stopped and mute.
THE DARKEST CASE OF HIS LIFE. Harry Hole is at rock bottom: Rakel has thrown him out of the house, he has relapsed into drinking, while working as a patrol officer on some insignificant cases.
THE FIRST SERIAL KILLER HE CAPTURED IS NOW HUNTING HIM DOWN. The notorious rapist and murderer, Svein Finne, is now free after serving his sentence, and he is determined to continue his criminal activities and take revenge on the officer who locked him up for so many years.
A GUY LIKE HOLE HAD BETTER WATCH HIS BACK. When Harry wakes up with his hands soaked in blood and no memory of the previous night, he knows that things can only get worse...
THE THRILLING TWELFTH ADVENTURE OF HARRY HOLE. More than 50 million copies sold worldwide.
WHAT THEY SAID ABOUT THE BOOK: The king of crime fiction writers. Sunday Express. An unstoppable writing force. The Times.
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- Author
- Jo Nesbø
- Publisher
- Metaichmio
- Publishers
- -
- Type
- Fantasy, Crime, Horror
- Subtitle
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 704
- Release Date
- 6/2021
- Publication Date
- 2021
- Dimensions
- 12x16.7 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9786180326499
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