Jo Nesbo's Harry Hole series is comprised of page - turning, airport - blockbuster Scandi crime potboilers; Alfredson scorches the seventh, The Snowman, with such art - house intensity that it eventually melts into an exhausted puddle.
It's a Texas Gothic crime thriller sutured to a potboiler melodrama about the existential despair of L.A. socialites in a David Lynchian fashion — though with less surrealism and more coherence.