Fiction. Mystery. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:�With Henning Mankell having written his last Wallander novel and Stieg Larsson no longer with us, I have had to make the decision on whom to confer the title of best current Nordic writer of crime fiction . . . Jo Nesb� wins.� �Marcel Berlins, The Times (U.K.)

Two young women are found murdered in Oslo, both drowned in their own blood. Media coverage quickly reaches fever pitch: Could this be the work of a serial killer?
 
The crime scenes offer no coherent clues, the police investigation is stalled, and the one man who might be able to help doesn�t want to be found. Traumatized by his last case, Inspector Harry Hole has lost himself in the squalor of Hong Kong�s opium dens. Yet when he is compelled, at last, to return to Norway�his father is dying�Harry�s buried instincts begin to take over. After a female MP is discovered brutally murdered, nothing can keep him from the investigation.
 
There is little to go on: a piece of rope, a scrap of wool, a bit of gravel, an unexpected connection between the victims. And Harry will soon come to understand that he is dealing with a psychopath for whom �insanity is a vital retreat,� someone who will put him to the test�in both his professional and personal lives�as never before.
 
Ruthlessly intelligent and suspenseful, The Leopard is Jo Nesb��s most electrifying novel yet�absolutely gripping from first to last.