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Mind's Eye

(Inspector Van Veeteren #1)

Håkan Nesser,

Laurie Thompson (Translator)

3.61 · Rating details · 9,959 ratings · 766 reviews

The highly anticipated first novel in the Inspector Van Veeteren series in now available in English. At last, American readers will be able to enjoy, from its very beginnings, this addictive series by one of Europe’s most beloved and best-selling crime writers.

Chief Inspector Van Veeteren knew that murder cases were never as open-and-shut as this one: Janek Mitter woke one ...more

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Jan 16, 2016 Jeffrey Keeten rated it really liked it

Shelves: nordic-noir

Inspector Van Veeteren

“His face was crisscrossed by small blue veins, many of them burst, and his expression was reminiscent of a petrified bloodhound. The only thing that moved was the toothpick, which wandered slowly from one side of his mouth to the other. He could talk without moving his lips, read without moving his eyes, yawn without moving his mouth. He was much more of a mummy than a person made up of flesh and blood.”

“But beyond doubt a very efficient police officer.”

Janek Mitter marrie ...more

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May 04, 2016 Lyn rated it really liked it

A surprisingly good and well-written murder mystery.

For fans of Scandinavian crime fiction, Hakan Nesser should be on a short list of favorites. The first book in the Chief Inspector Van Veeteren series, The Mind’s Eye was first published in Sweden in 1993 as Det grovmaskiga nätet. This was good enough for Nesser to be awarded the 1993 Swedish Crime Writers' Academy Prize for new authors.

Crime fiction is like a salesman - the lead detective, typically the writer’s protagonist, must sell the stor ...more

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Aug 01, 2017 Thomas rated it really liked it

Shelves: scandanavian-crime

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I was on a cruise last year and sat with a Swedish couple for dinner one night. I mentioned that I liked to read mysteries and had read books by 2 Swedish authors, Henning Mankell and Stieg Larsson. He recommended that I read books by Hakan Nesser. I am pleased that I followed his recommendation.
This is book 1 in the series and I enjoyed it. It is a psychological mystery with Detective Chief Inspector Van Veeteren solving the mystery by deductive reasoning and following clues. There is very li ...more

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Aug 12, 2010 James Thane rated it liked it

This is the book that introduced Swedish Inspector Van Veeteren.

After a drunken night of love-making, Janek Mitter awakens to find his wife drowned in the bathtub, and Mitter has absolutely no recollection of what might have happened. Van Veeteren is not completely certain that Mitter is guilty of the murder, but with the evidence stacked against him and no real defense, Mitter is convicted and sent to a mental institution.

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Dec 11, 2016 Rachel Hall rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Despite being the first official novel in the Detective Chief Inspector Van Veeteren series, The Mind's Eye was not published in the UK until after outings two and three, hence many readers found it a little disconcerting to come to this first offering belatedly. Thankfully, despite having encountered Van Veeteren in a much later novel, I have the privilege of meeting the frequently irascible and perennially grouchy detective from his initial starting point. Although this first case is not the m Despite being the first official novel in the Detective Chief Inspector Van Veeteren series, The Mind's Eye was not published in the UK until after outings two and three, hence many readers found it a little disconcerting to come to this first offering belatedly. Thankfully, despite having encountered Van Veeteren in a much later novel, I have the privilege of meeting the frequently irascible and perennially grouchy detective from his initial starting point. Although this first case is not the most complicated investigation, the benefit of this is in just how closely readers get to experience the intuitive flair and brusque manner of Van Veeteren. The Mind's Eye provides an excellent opportunity to observe the inner workings of the investigative team who support Van Veeteren and also gives an insight into relations with his absent wife and offspring. Never content without a toothpick or two roaming in his mouth, frequently abrupt with colleagues and suspects alike, Van Veeteren is a man marking the days until his retirement just ten years away.

When schoolteacher Janek Mitter awakes with a blistering hangover, complete with throbbing eyes and a dry mouth, he is unsure of even his own name. He remembers nothing until he stumbles through the apartment and begins to recognise some memories of the place. Met by an urge to vomit he races for the bathroom and it confronted by the discovery of the dead body of his wife, Eva Ringmar, face-down in a bathtub filled to the brim. Mitter has no memory of his, if any, role in the events which have taken place but with plenty of empty alcohol bottles littering the place it seems that the previous night's intoxication is to blame. Recently married, Janek and Eva, both approaching forty are teaching colleagues at the local Bunge High School, and their marriage was a second chance at happiness. With a traumatic past, marked by the death of her young child and ensuing marital break-up, the obvious conclusion that Eva's murder is the work of her husband is quickly reached.

Largely because the matter is not that complex and seems a proverbial open and shut case, Mitter's fate it swiftly delivered. Pleading not guilty yet having no basis for forming any sort of defence, the prosecution produce a range of witnesses and colleagues who fail to convince Van Veeteren that Mitter has a track record of violent outbursts or the capacity to have carried out this act in such a callous manner. After intense questioning at his trial, Mitter is soon a shadow of himself, exhausted and anxious. His brutal frankness on the stand and general air of consigned resignation to his fate leaves him almost glad to return to a solitude of incarceration and a life behind bars. Frequently humorous when cross-examined, sometimes to the point of seeming facetious, his colourful testimony is met with a unanimous decision by the jury.

Convicted of manslaughter and sent to a secure mental institution in Majorna, his swift dispatch leaves Van Veeteren doubting the man's guilt. When a mix-up with his medication and multi-vitamins(!) allows Mitter's first memories of the fateful night to return, a flash of insight leaves him with the identity on the killer on his lips. Trying to call Van Veeteren and dispatching a missive to the true killer to let him know that his game is up, confusion at police HQ sees Mitter's message go astray and leaves the real perpetrator with a chance to act... Mitter meets his fate the following night, leaving Van Veeteren furious at the missed the opportunity to learn the killers true identity. With a second victim dead, Van Veeteren is left to conclude that the letter which Mitter sent must have been to one of the few addresses that he had committed to memory, limiting the possible locations. His workplace of twenty years, Bunge High School, seems to be the most likely destination but in a school of over seven-hundred pupils and a staff of approximately eighty-five, Van Veeteren's team of detectives have a job making inroads, especially given the mountain of daily post they receive. But Van Veeteren knows that the past never really stops haunting the present and as he continues to fumble for insights into Eva's earlier life he is confronted by the fact that the killer might have more than the blood of two murders on his hands. Over half of this novel focuses on the aftermath of Mitter's death and an awareness that a lacklustre investigation of the initial background to the situation had more than a hand in seeing the wrong party convicted. It is up to Van Veeteren to unmask the real perpetrator and see justice, albeit belatedly, prevail.

Nesser excels at characterisation and everyone of his investigative colleagues makes a significant impression, with the snappy dialogue giving readers a closer insight into the attitudes and perspectives of the individual investigators who number his team. Among the personalities working in his team, his sidekick and protégée is the slow-witted Inspector Münster, himself over forty-years-old. The rapport between Van Veeteren and Münster is particularly drawn well and the droll humour of Van Veeteren frequently leaves Münster standing, slow to cotton on to what appears so apparent to Van Veeteren. One particularly humorous memorable moment comes in the form of Van Veeteren delivering an insight into his thought processes to Münster, and summing up the Scandi noir genre in a rather tongue-in-cheek manner:

"A novel, a film, or a play, Münster - they are nothing but stuffed life. Life that has been captured and stuffed like a taxidermist stuff's a dead animal. They are created so that we can reasonably easily examine it. Clamber out of current reality and look at it from a distance."

Alongside the quirks of the team there is a wonderful overview to the back story of Van Veeteren and his rivalry on the badminton court with Münster and I look forward to seeing his progression as the series continues. Notably even with the secondary characters who feature in The Mind's Eye, attention to detail is second to none, from the headmaster of Bunge High School that hides behind his desk to the childhood friends of Eva Ringmar.

The location for the Van Veeteren series is the fictional town of Maardam, home to a population of 300,000 in Northern Europe, and generally inferred as being based in the Netherlands. Despite this lack of definitive setting, I assumed the culture adhered to the usual Nordic Noir attitudes, being slightly more liberal than the view prevailing in the UK. Beginning in October 1990, the emphasis in The Mind's Eye is much more along the lines of gut feelings and less fixated on the digital footprints of the victims, and the case has a curiously old-fashioned feel which suits this gentle introduction to Van Veeteren wonderfully. Despite this emphasis on leg-work the pace holds up exceeding well and is helped by the frequent bouts of dialogue at the team meetings, which always provide an opportunity for humorous insights and unspoken prejudices to be raised. Indeed one of the most humorous aspects of this novel is how quickly all of the team air their honest opinions and aspersions on the people they come across in the course of their work. With a dry humour laced throughout the pages, this first novel serves as the perfect introduction to the tenacious Detective Chief Inspector Van Veeteren, a man of advancing years which adds credence to his his tried and tested working methods and leaps of intuition.
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Jul 25, 2012 Marsena Adams-Dufresne rated it did not like it

I have enjoyed other Scandinavian murder mysteries so much that I was happy to discover Nesser's Inspector Van Veeteren series (of which this book is one). I've read three of his books now and there are many things about them that I don't like. For one, I was disappointed to find that Nesser's writing doesn't evoke a strong sense of place for me, which is something I have found compelling about other Scandinavian authors. I also really disliked Inspector Van Veeteren as a character; although he ...more

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Mar 04, 2011 Ellie rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: nordic-noir, library, crime, fiction, 2011groupchallenge, scandanavian

I loved Mind's Eye by Håkan Nesser, the first in the Swedish crime series featuring Inspector Van Veeteren, the grumpy, cynical, aging detective who has a stinging sense of humor. In fact, although I'm an incorrigible multi-book reader, I found myself unable to read anything else until I finished this book (a rare event that I always hope for). The character of Van Veeteren is the primary attraction but the other characters are all seamlessly drawn and the plot is well-paced and absorbing. I can ...more

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Aug 09, 2019 Sheila Beaumont rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: mysteries-suspense-thrillers, scandinavia

I have already read a stand-alone by Hakan Nesser, which I loved, but this is the first of his Chief Inspector Van Veeteren mysteries I've read.

This book, the first in the series, does an excellent job of introducing the chief inspector. At first, I thought, oh no, yet another depressed Scandinavian detective? But Van Veeteren is more complex and more interesting than that. He has a sense of humor, even about himself.

In this mystery, our detective seems to operate almost entirely by intuition, a ...more

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Nov 03, 2017 Ingrid rated it really liked it · review of another edition

This was a slow starter. It seemed so predictable in the beginning it had me fooled. After 50-60 pages the story got more speed, it held my attention till the end. I'm looking forward to reading the next one in the series.

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Mar 13, 2020 Paul Secor rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Three and a half stars - upgraded to four

A good Scandinavian police procedural/mystery, not at the level of Henning Mankell's Wallander novels, but this is the first book in a series, so I'll probably read another Van Veeteren and see how that goes.

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Jan 14, 2017 Mackey rated it liked it

Shelves: noir-fictioninternational, my-reviews

I truly love nordic noir so it is difficult for me not to adore all mysteries and crime novels that come out in this genre, however, Mind's Eye was a challenge for me. The storyline was very good, the details were excellent. I really liked the main character and would enjoy getting to know him better. What was most difficult was Hakan Nesser's writing style. It was very disjointed and scattered as though he got lost in his own thought process and didn't know where to go next. At one point his ch ...more

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Jun 09, 2010 Naomi rated it really liked it · review of another edition

There will be absolutely no hint of spoilers in Nesser reviews from me! I found Nesser books after running out of Karin Fossum books to read. Nesser's writing is excellent and does an unbelievable job at sucking the reader in to the twisted story being laid out. For some reason, in the majority of Scandanavian mystery writers I have found, their ability to do that is second to no other countries mystery writers. The only criticism I have is that I am not happy about with Nesser's books is that i ...more

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Apr 22, 2011 Lynn rated it really liked it

Gifted Scandinavian curmudgeon depressed detective .... it's deja vu all over again. I read the imitators first; this is one of the originals. Good read.....not sure it was supposed to be funny, but I laughed quite a bit. I can see myself getting hooked on the series.

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Jul 14, 2009 Nancy Oakes rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: crime-fiction, crime-fiction-scandinavia, mystery-series-first-novel, translated-crime-fiction

This is actually the first installment in the series featuring Inspector Van Veeteren, set in Sweden, and it is a good one. I really love Nesser's books, having read the first three in the series so far (Mind's Eye, Borkmann's Point, The Return). In this debut (and you'll never believe it's the first of a series, it's that good), Van Veeteren takes the case of Janek Mitter, who wakes up one morning after a night of heavy drinking to find his wife Eva in the bathtub, dead. The only suspect is Mit ...more

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Aug 08, 2011 Carol rated it liked it

Shelves: police-procedural, nordic-noir, detective

This book has an intriguing start. A man wakes up from a drunken stupor to find his wife dead in the bath tub. He has no memory of the night before. He phones the police and cleans the apartment. He is suspected to be the murderer by the police and is convicted of the crime. He himself is later murdered while imprisoned.

Although many people are interviewed no solid leads form because no one knows much about the murder victims. No leads at all and the book drifts from interviews of people who kn ...more

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Feb 12, 2017 laipeen rated it really liked it · review of another edition

A really good page turner with strong characterization (the protagonist Chief Inspector). Funny at some parts, too! Didn't see the end coming. I'd truly recommend this to anyone who likes crime and mystery fiction.

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Apr 09, 2019 Deb Jones rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: police-procedural, series

This is the first book in the Detective Inspector Van Veeteren series set in Sweden; a police procedural.

A man who has no memory of the night his wife was drowned in their bathtub at home is quickly convicted of her wrongful death, a case in which Van Veeteren figured prominently. Something about the case -- perhaps its lack of solid evidence -- sits wrong with the detective whose aim is justice rather than simply numbers of solved cases. Van Veeteren prides himself on his ability to read people ...more

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Jul 03, 2018 Iryna *Book and Sword* rated it liked it · review of another edition

3.5/5 stars

Like I've said before - a good mystery book shouldn't be longer than 300 pages. In this case 288 was perfectly enough.

I picked Mind's Eye randomly in a second hand book shop because the cover and then a description caught my eye. It being written by a Swedish author was a gigantic plus because 2018 is a year in which I'm trying to read a lot of foreign authors. Speaking of foreign, the translation for this was superb - really, really enjoyed it.

As it usually goes with mystery novel ...more

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Jan 25, 2010 Shivesh rated it liked it

Shelves: mysterious

There is something in the water in those Scandinavian countries, perhaps leakage from Iceland. The hype about the various mystery writers from Sweden, Norway and Finland is no joke - much like the denizens of Reykjavik, there is something about the northern latitudes that is extremely conducive to a journey into a dark and deep mystery.

My first introduction to this kind of writing was 'Jar City', which itself was well introduced to me by its movie adaptation. When I saw 'Mind's Eye' on the libra ...more

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Oct 22, 2018 John rated it it was amazing

Schoolteacher Janek Mitter wakes up one morning to a crushing hangover, the realization that he's suffering a memory blackout, and the discovery that his wife of just three months, Eva, has been drowned in the bathtub behind a bolted door. There's no evidence that anyone else but the two of them was in the apartment the previous night, and so Janek, still with that gaping hole in his memory, is arrested, tried and convicted, even though he's certain he couldn't have killed his beloved Eva . . .

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Oct 28, 2015 Maddy rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2015-reads

PROTAGONIST: Chief Inspector Van Veeteren
SETTING: Scandinavia (a country like Sweden)
SERIES: #1 of 10
RATING: 4.0
WHY: The Mind's Eye introduces Chief Inspector Van Veeteren, a decidedly unique character whose intuition is his main investigative tool. Teacher Janek Mitter drank too much and awoke to find his wife, Eva, drowned in the bathtub. He is imprisoned in a mental institution and subsequently murdered. The plot is quite complex, but there is subtle humor underneath the grimness. The book wi ...more

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Feb 27, 2019 Oana M. rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: crime

This book from Hakan Nesser makes me want to read more books from him. And because it's the first one in Inspector Van Veeteren series, I started well.

What it looks like an isolated crime case, it soon begins to look like a real investigation in which many suspects are being interrogated by the police. And when the man found guilty for the murder is killed himself, Inspector Van Veeteren begins to wonder about their mistakes and to search for the real cold blood killer.

A swedish thriller that d ...more

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Mar 20, 2018 Rowena Hoseason rated it liked it

Shelves: 2018

This book started off brilliantly with a mystifying mystery of the locked room tradition: a drowned wife in a locked bathroom, the husband so inebriated he could only remember their wild festivity of the night before… and not how it ended.
He’s convinced that he didn’t kill her but the police and courts are not.

Before the story is more than a third through we’re at the point where most police procedurals end – with his conviction and incarceration. But Van Veeteren, a detective prone to inspired ...more

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Dec 29, 2016 Kirsty rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: december-2016, borrowed

I borrowed Hakan Nesser's The Mind's Eye from the library for inclusion in my year-long Reading the World project. I hadn't heard of it before, but I count myself as a fan of Nordic Noir, and thought it might be just the thing to read on a cold winter's night. This volume has been translated from its original Swedish by Laurie Thompson, and was first published in Sweden in 1993; the author was victorious in the Swedish Crime Writers' Academy Prize for it, and subsequently won other prestigious a I borrowed Hakan Nesser's The Mind's Eye from the library for inclusion in my year-long Reading the World project. I hadn't heard of it before, but I count myself as a fan of Nordic Noir, and thought it might be just the thing to read on a cold winter's night. This volume has been translated from its original Swedish by Laurie Thompson, and was first published in Sweden in 1993; the author was victorious in the Swedish Crime Writers' Academy Prize for it, and subsequently won other prestigious awards for his later work.

The Mind's Eye is the first Inspector van Veeteren mystery, in which a history and philosophy teacher named Janek Mitter awakes to find that he cannot remember who he is. He then discovers the body of his beautiful young wife, Eva, floating in the bath after an attack. Even during the trial which follows, he has no memory of attacking his wife, or any idea as to how he could have killed her; indeed, 'Only when he is sentenced and locked up in an asylum for the criminally insane does he have a snatch of insight. He scribbles something in his Bible, but is murdered before the clue can be uncovered'.

The novel's opening passage is quite striking: 'It's like being born, he thought. I'm not a person. Merely a mass of suffering'. In this manner, Nesser gets straight into the story. He continues thus when the body is discovered, using short, snappy sentences to capture the mood: 'He entered the room and, just as he switched on the light, he became quite clear about who he was. / He could also identify the woman lying in the bath. / Her name was Eva Ringmar and she was his wife of three months. / Her body was strangely twisted... Her dark hair was floating on the water. Her head was face-down, and as the bath was full to the brim there could be no doubt that she was dead.'

The Mind's Eye is rather a quick read, and a page-turner, at least. It isn't the most gripping mystery, nor the most memorable slice of Scandicrime; in fact, it lacks the darkness and the often twisted, gory killings of many of its contemporaries. There are far more grisly whodunnits out there, and part of me wishes I'd selected one such instead. Nesser's effort is well plotted, and the plot points do keep one interested in the story. I cannot help but feel that the blurb of the novel gives a little too much away, however. There is nothing overly special about the translation, sadly; the way in which it is rendered takes away any memorable prose, and it uses many paragraphs made of short sentences to further push different points home. Needless to say, it is not a series which I will be continuing with. ...more

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Jan 31, 2017 Debbie rated it really liked it

Mind's Eye is Nesser's first novel in the Inspector Van Veeteren series. Nesser is a Sweedish crime novelist who won The Best Swedish Crime Novel award three times. He is also the author of the Inspector Barbarotti series, various other fiction and nonfiction novels, and screenplays.

The book started off fast, slowed down a little, picked back up, then slowed down again toward the end. It wasn't a fast paced thriller like some other crime novels I've read recently but I thoroughly enjoyed it. Thi ...more

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Jan 21, 2009 Michael rated it it was ok

This seems to be a common pattern that foreign detective novels from a series are translated out of order - several other Inspector Van Veeteren novels came out in English before this one. Thus the book, set in the "current day" is now describing a Sweden of almost twenty years ago.

Presumably publishers do this (out of order) because they decide that one of the later titles is more compelling for an English speaking audience - and that the first one is weaker. It certainly seems possible in this ...more

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Oct 14, 2011 Linda Branham Greenwell rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

The mystery begins when Janek Mitter awakens one morning, and finds his wife dead in the bathtub. He remembers nothing. But, Janek of course is the chief suspect. The police have no other viable suspects and Janek's suspicious behavior makes it look like and open and shut case. Certainly Inspector Van Veeteren thinks so. After all who could believe Janek's convenient loss of memory as to what happened that fateful night because he drank too much at dinner?
Van Veeteren is the main character - an ...more

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Mar 09, 2017 Larry rated it really liked it

Nesser writes one of my favorite mystery series. I've been reading these out of chronological order because often times books that are translated to English are done in order of popularity. The first of the series was only recently released. It was nice to finally read # 1. It didn't really seem like it was opening any new doors of understanding or provide much background. All of the characters were just as they are in his later books. This book did seem to have a bit more of a psycho-sexual edg ...more

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Sep 15, 2018 A Man Called Ove rated it really liked it · review of another edition

3.5/5 This was my first book by Hakan Nesser. Another Scandinavian police procedural but with a different plot. The first half with the courtroom scenes was quite good and also different from the usual police procedural. Will have to revisit the second half as the ending was quite abrupt.
Will surely be picking up one by him soon.

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Nov 25, 2008 Donna rated it really liked it

Shelves: audiobooks, mysteries, mysteries-translations, mysteries-international

Wonderfully complex mystery with many layers and points of view. Van Veeteren has to peel back the layers of Eva Mitter's life to discover who murdered both Eva and her husband.

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Håkan Nesser is a Swedish author and teacher who has written a number of successful crime fiction novels. He has won Best Swedish Crime Novel Award three times, and his novel Carambole won the Glass Key award in 2000. His books have been translated from Swedish into numerous languages.

Håkan Nesser was born and grew up in Kumla, and has lived most of his adult life in Uppsala. His first novel was p ...more