Soon the first snow will come.A young boy wakes to find his mother missing. Outside, he sees her favourite scarf – wrapped around the neck of a snowman.And then he will appear again.Detective Harry Hole soon discovers that an alarming number of wives and mothers have gone missing over the years.And when the snow is gone…When a second woman disappears, Harry’s worst suspicion is confirmed: a serial killer is operating on his home turf…he will have taken someone else . . . . . . . . . .