The Killing Month — Jo Nesbø

In The Killing Month, two young women vanish from Oslo a week apart. Their disappearances start to reveal a chilling pattern: one body is discovered in the forest, marked by stitched scars along the hairline and with the brain removed. The city trembles at the hands of a murderer whose mind is as removed from normality as his crimes. Harry Hole, long exiled and cut off from his former life, is dragged back into the darkness when a woman resembling his mother falls under threat. He accepts a high-risk assignment from a real estate magnate — himself a suspect — to track the killer before more lives are lost. With time running out, Hole must reconcile with his demons and chase a predator whose purpose is inscrutable.

This Ukrainian edition is published by KM-Books, featuring 520 pages and a hardcover binding.