The redeemer it is a freezing december night and christmas shoppers have gathered to listen to a salvation army carol concert. Then a shot rings out and one of the singers falls to the floor, dead. Detective harry hole and his team are called in to investigate but have little to work with - there is no immediate suspect, no weapon and no motive. The snowman the night the first snow falls a young boy wakes to find his mother gone. He walks through the silent house, but finds only wet footprints on the stairs. In the garden looms a solitary figure: a snowman bathed in cold moonlight, its black eyes glaring up at the bedroom windows. Round its neck is his mother's pink scarf. The leopard in the depths of winter, two young women are found dead, both drowned in their own blood. Inspector harry hole, deeply traumatized by an investigation that threatened the lives of those he holds most dear, initially wants nothing to do with the case but his instincts take over when a prominent mp is found