Devil's Star

<p><strong>It's fascinating to watch this Norwegian author adapt our homegrown monster [the serial killer] to a foreign culture.... When things go wrong Harry goes on a bender but when he's on his game no one is better than this obsessive detective. He systematically works his way through the intricacies of a plot that speeds along like a bullet train.--<em>New York Times Book Review</em></strong></p><p><strong>Detective Harry Hole is on the trail of a diabolical serial killer terrorizing Oslo in another electrifying thriller in the Harry Hole series from the author of <em>The Snowman</em>.</strong></p><p>In the heat of a sweltering Oslo summer a young woman is found murdered in her flat--with one of her fingers cut off and a tiny red star-shaped diamond placed under her eyelid. An off-the-rails alcoholic barely holding on to his job Detective Harry Hole is assigned to the case with Tom Waaler a hated colleague whom Harry believes is responsible for the murder of his partner. When another woman is reported missing five days later and her severed finger turns up adorned with a red star-shaped diamond ring Harry fears a serial killer is at work.</p><p>But Hole's determination to capture a fiend and to expose Waaler's crimes is leading him into shadowy places where both investigations merge in unexpected ways forcing him to make difficult decisions about a future he may not live to see.</p><p> </p>