The Snowman - Jo Nesbo
                     Series

This is the book that started me on the journey of Harry Hole.  Well,  I have read it and now I will be ending my journey of books by Jo Nesbo.
Let me say, Mr. Nesbo,  that I love Harry!!!   But the number of red herrings that are in this book really made it a chore for me to read.  By the time I got to the "real" murderer,  I really did not care!!!!  Good-by Harry.

Harry's new case is sort of a cold case (lol,  see what I did there..cold-snowman),  Anyway, a woman goes missing, there is a snowman in her yard with a pink scarf around her neck.  This leads Harry to other women who have been missing , some going back several years.  As Harry gets close to solving the case, more people go missing or end up dead.  Sometimes it is very confusing as to why..  Then by the time it is explained,  I have forgotten what role they played in the story. As I said, too may red herrings for me. 

Goodreads says::

Oslo in November. The first snow of the season has fallen. A boy named Jonas wakes in the night to find his mother gone. Out his window, in the cold moonlight, he sees the snowman that inexplicably appeared in the yard earlier in the day. Around its neck is his mother's pink scarf. 

Hole suspects a link between a menacing letter he's received and 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, something else emerges: he is becoming a pawn in an increasingly terrifying game whose rules are devised - and constantly revised - by the killer.