The Snowman Is a Stiff

Of the generally overpraised crop of Scandinavian genre writers, Jo Nesbo strikes me as the most cunning, with a tipsy enough balance between fatalism and nihilism to keep the storytelling unpredictable. He’s overly sadistic, but that’s the marketplace these days: grisly, grislier, grisliest. And his depiction of an Oslo with...More »