How <i>The Snowman</i> Melts
A chilly, Nordic mood ultimately can’t save the ill-plotted adaptation of Jo Nesbø’s bestselling crime novel.
The Norwegian writer Jo Nesbø is a member of that peculiar subspecies of authors who specialize simultaneously in violent crime fiction and … children’s books. (James Patterson is another.) I have on more than one occasion worried that some small number of Nesbø’s kid-admirers might have accidentally picked up and perused a copy of his novel The Snowman, imagining it to be a goofy Yuletide romp.
It’s not.
I read many years back and its memory with the spirit-numbing winter vibe of .
