Håkan Nesser, trans. from the Swedish by Laurie Thompson. Pantheon, $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-307-90686-1
Intendent Münster steps out of the shadow of his old boss, the now fully retired Inspector Van Veeteren, in Nesser’s sterling sixth Inspector Van Veeteren mystery (after 2011’s The Inspector and Silence). Münster has to figure out who stabbed...
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Hakan Nesser, Author, Laurie Thompson, Translator , trans. from the Swedish by Laurie Thompson. Pantheon $22.95 (321p) ISBN 978-0-375-42196-9
International bestseller Nesser makes his U.S. debut with this classy and rewarding whodunit, which won the Swedish Crime Writers' Academy Prize for Best Novel in 1994. Chief Inspector Van Veeteren, a veteran of 30 years of police work who...
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Hakan Nesser, Author, Laurie Thompson, Translator Pantheon Books $22.95 (321p) ISBN 978-0-375-42197-6
Nesser's latest contemporary police procedural, set in his Swedish homeland, is an excellent puzzler that will remind many of the Inspector Morse series. Nesser's sleuth, Detective Chief Inspector Van Veeteren, is on the eve of major surgery when a...
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H%C3%A5kan Nesser, trans. from the Swedish by Laurie Thompson. Pantheon, $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-375-42523-3
Nesser's fine fourth Insp. Van Veeteren mystery (after 2009's Woman with a Birthmark) finds the crime-weary detective teetering on the brink of retirement while sweltering through a brutal case of rape and murder at a camp run by a religious group,...
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H%C3%A5kan Nesser, read by Simon Vance. HighBridge Audio, unabridged, six CDs, 7.5 hrs., $29.95 ISBN 978-1-61174-271-8
Simon Vance, who narrated Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy, is currently the go-to reader for Scandinavian crime novels—and with good reason. His audio version of Nesser's well-crafted whodunit is nothing short of stellar. Along with Vance's...
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Hakan Nesser, Author, Laurie Thompson, Translator , trans. from the Swedish by Laurie Thompson. Pantheon $22.95 (277p) ISBN 978-0-375-42503-5
World-weariness in a detective is well and good—but what if it ends up costing innocent victims their lives? That's the predicament in which Detective Chief Inspector Van Veeteren finds himself in this moodily affecting mystery, the first
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Hakan Nesser, Author, Laurie Thompson, Translator , trans. from the Swedish by Laurie Thompson. Pantheon $23.95 (335p) ISBN 978-0-375-42504-2
Chief Insp. Van Veeteren heads a sterling ensemble cast in Nesser’s fine police procedural, his second (after Borkmann’s Point
) to win the best novel award from the Swedish Crime Writers’ Academy. A nameless young woman, soon...
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Håkan Nesser, trans. from the Swedish by Saskia Vogel. World, $16.99 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-1-64286-019-1
At the start of this moving elegy for lost innocence from Nesser (the Inspector Van Veeteren mysteries), 49-year-old Erik, the book’s narrator, promises to tell the reader about “a terrible and tragic event” that occurred the summer he was 14. In...
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