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The Return: An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery, by Hakan NesserHakan (Håkan) Nesser is another of the brilliant Swede crime writers who have been translated into English recently. He is a skilled writer, with well developed plots in his books, and has written a series of books about Inspector Van Veeteren.  As you will see when you read The Return, Van Veeteren is a likable, smart, passionate and fully drawn character. Furthermore, all of Nesser’s books have the feel of authentic police investigations throughout. His books are generally police procedurals.The storyline in The Return revolves around an inquest conducted by Chief Inspector Van Veeteren and his squad of detectives in the Maardam police department. A decapitated corpse also missing hands and feet was discovered wrapped in a carpet by a pre-school child in a wooded area during a class outing. Immediately the investigation was two pronged. Exactly who was the victim and who was his murderer? The detectives soon discover that the victim was one Leopold Verhaven. The notorious Verhaven, once a world class middle distance runner, had served two separate 12 year prison terms for the murders of two young women he was romantically involved with. As Van Veeteren looks back at the evidence from the previous killings he gets the feeling that Verhaven might have been innocent. The reader is taken through many routine interrogations in a murder investigation which only very gradually add up to a solution to the case. The case itself is bizarre and convoluted, involving the murders of three people, including a convicted murderer recently paroled from prison. While the central figure in The Return is Chief Inspector Van Veeteren, his junior colleagues get most of the story space and their characters are well developed and credible. Still, Van Veeteren really shines through, after his serious surgical procedure he’s in a lighter, more philosophical mood with more humor and irony surfacing. The Return is a great crime novel, and very psychological. The action is intriguing and interesting, the plot good, and the characters rich and attractive. You will enjoy! Highly recommended. Other great books by Hakan Nesser include Borkmann's Point: An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery  and Münsters Fall. Order books by Hakan Nesser from amazon UK: The Return  , Borkmann's Point . Under the Snow, by Kerstin Ekman
(Swedish title: De tre små mästerna). As a young writer Kerstin Ekman earned herself the name
'Deckardronning' (Queen of the Detective Story) in Sweden. Allegedly, when
Kerstin Lillemor Ekman(born 27 August 1933 Risinge) is a Swedish novelist. Kerstin Ekman wrote a string of successful detective novels (among others De tre små mästarna and Dödsklockan) but later went on to psychological and social themes.Among her later works is Mörker och blåbärsris (1972) (set in northern Sweden) and Händelser vid vatten (1993), in which she returned to the form of the detective novel.
It is only by accident that the case is reopened when Olsson's unsuspecting friend David Malm makes a summer visit and encounters a girl who has hit a reindeer with her car. In the car, Malm discovers a knapsack containing a bloody noose covered with human hair, and he forces Torsson to return to the isolated community, now bathed in perpetual sunlight. Slowly and painfully, the two penetrate the peculiar psychology of people who live half their lives in darkness, cut off from the rest of the world. Ekman's brilliant evocation of a place and culture above the Arctic Circle in Under the Snow is as compelling and mysterious as the crime itself. David teams up with Torsson, and together they form an
unexpected yet almost affectionate duo - they set out to get to
the bottom of what happened that March night. They uncover a web of secrets. Everybody seems to have something to hide.
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