Inspector Van Veeteren (5 books in series)
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review 1: THE WOMAN WITH A BIRTHMARK by Hakan Nesser is the fourth instalment in the series of crime novels set in the fictitious city of Maardam, featuring the previously a bit dark and brooding, but a very jolly and witty in this book, Inspector Van Veeteren. The novel starts with a fune...
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review 1: Fifth of Hakan Nesser's Chief Inspector Van Veeteren detective series. The Chief Inspector contemplating retirement takes one final case. He must travel to a far off town to investigate the disappearance of a small girl that was living within a religious cult camp. Seemed to dra...
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review 1: This one didn't seem as dark as some of the past installments. I do like how Nesser has his people solve the crimes...fishing, canoeing and eating ;) I can't say this one was much of a surprise to me - I thought the 'by chance' linking of the suspect due to a spelling error was...
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review 1: Enjoyable (4th in series, which I am reading in order but perhaps it is less important with this series than with some). Old-fashioned police procedural (written in 1996, so it has taken a while to reach English translation). We know, more or less, who the murderer is from the be...
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review 1: The most pointless, cliched, feebly-plotted murder mystery ever. Beautiful young girls brutally raped and strangled? Give me a break! The story unwinds at a snail's pace and after pointing the finger at the leader of the sect to which the girls belonged, of course our author pluc...