The Leopard - Trailers

Unlike for The Snowman there's isn't a film-style trailer for The Leopard rather a interview with Jo Nesbo (cut down from this one):



Update! Here is the filmic one, released this morning:



Here is the Norwegian cover for The Leopard (which is relevant to the plot):

What I'm Reading: The Leopard

The Leopard by Jo Nesbo, tr. Don Bartlett is published in a few days time. I've been lucky enough to have an advance review copy and also, thanks to Harvill Secker, I've now got an e-copy to take with me on the train tomorrow.

The Leopard is 600+ pages and rather heavy, so I'm really pleased to able to switch between print and e-copy. I do think that offering a free ebook with a print copy would be a great idea.

Anyway, The Leopard is, like The Snowman, a search for a killer who murders in rather unpleasant ways, but it is also about Harry Hole, the man. Here's a paragraph from about third the way in:

"Harry heard the solemnity in his voice. The voice of a man with no capacity to forgive, no consideration, no thoughts for anything except his own objectives. And plied the inverted persuasion technique that had worked for him far too often."

I want to finish this so I can review it on time but equally I don't want to get to the end of it.

Jo Nesbo news

A brief snippet from the latest Jo Nesbo newsletter:

The Leopard (Harry Hole #8) will come out in the UK in March 2011, and exactly one year later, The Bat Man (Harry Hole #1) will finally be published in English!

Sign up for the newsletter on the Jo Nesbo website.

Jo Nesbo talks about The Leopard in this interview, apparently it's a long book (the others aren't short!) dwelling more on Harry and his personal life than in earlier books: