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tons and table tennis) tolerate Harry because he’s said to be a genius, though the movie por- trays him as the worst screen de- tective since Inspector Clouseau. Harry’s latest case sees him teaming up with a rookie, Ka- trine (Rebecca Ferguson), a miss- ing persons specialist, to inves- tigate a serial killer who bumps off women who happen to be mothers, leaving a (not remotely scary) snowman at the scenes of his crimes. Nesbo has written and sold an awful lot of books, so I’m forced to assume his version of The Snowman boasts coherent plot- ting and characters who behave like human beings. For some bi- zarre reason, that’s not remotely what we get with this screen adaptation. The plot is riddled with more holes than a block of Jarlsberg cheese, with the killer turning up to murder characters in locations he couldn’t possibly have known they could be found at, and Hole failing to notice the most blatant Watch Snowy The Frostman 1 NJ STAGE 2017 - Issue 40 INDEX NEXT ARTICLE 105