Which Norwegian author created the detective Harry Hole in books such as 'The Redbreast' and 'The Snowman'?
The Snowman (Nesbø novel) The Snowman (Nesbø novel) The Snowman (, 2007) is a novel by Norwegian crime-writer Jo Nesbø. It is the seventh entry in his Harry Hole series. In 1980, a married woman has illicit sex with a lover while her adolescent son waits in a car outside; their lovemaking is disturbed when they think somebody is looking at them from outside the window, which turns out to have been only a tall snowman. Twenty-four years later, Norwegian detective Harry Hole investigates a string of murders of women around Oslo. His FBI training leads him to search for links between the cases,
Harry Hole origins in the Viking Age. The name is derived from Old Norse "Hólar", the plural form of "hóll", meaning "round and isolated hill". The word is pronounced as two syllables, with stress on the first (hoo-leh), as is implied in "The Bat", where the Australian police call him "Harry Holy". The seventh novel in the series "The Snowman" was adapted as a film in 2017 starring Michael Fassbender as Harry Hole, with Rebecca Ferguson, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Ronan Vibert, and J.K. Simmons. Harry Hole Harry Hole is the main character in a series of crime novels written by Norwegian author Jo