Robin Sachs

Jacob Marlowe has lost the will to live. For two centuries he has wandered the world, enslaved by his lunatic appetites and tormented by the memory of his first and most monstrous crime. Now, the last of his kind, he knows he can't go on. But as Jake counts down to suicide, a violent murder and an extraordinary meeting plunge him straight back into the desperate pursuit of life. Book one in the series.

The first snow of the season has fallen. A boy named Jonas wakes in the night to find his mother gone. Harry Hole suspects a link between the disappearance of Jonas’s mother and of perhaps a dozen other women, all of whom went missing on the day of a first snowfall. As his investigation deepens, he finds he is becoming a pawn in an increasingly terrifying game.