The Leopard

The Harry Hole Series 8 Following the events of the previous novel, Detective Harry Hole has gone on leave of absence and has disappeared. He is found by a new Crime Squad officer, Kaja Sollness, in Hong Kong, where he has become addicted to opium. After failing to convince Harry to return to Norway by describing the identical murder of two women, Sollness informs him that his father is seriously ill in hospital and will not live much longer. This convinces Harry to return to Norway with Kaja Sollness. Harry returns to Crime Squad to find that it is in a tussle with the Norwegian Police Department, Kripos. The head of Kripos, Mikael Bellman, and Harry's own supervisor are at odds regarding the murders. Harry himself claims to have no interest in the murder cases, but when a female Norwegian MP is murdered in a public park, he is drawn into the case...