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    Mind's Eye: An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery
    Woman with Birthmark: An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery
    Borkmann's Point: An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery
    Audiobook series6 titles

    Inspector Van Veeteren Mysteries Series

    Written by Håkan Nesser

    Narrated by Simon Vance

    3.5/5

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    About this series

    The master of Swedish crime fiction returns with this award-winning latest entry into the Van Veeteren series. It starts with a drunk man killing a boy as he hits him with his car. Thinking no one has seen him, he feels he's off the hook. Until he receives a message telling him that the sender knows what he's done and unless he pays him ransom, to be left in a bag at a secluded men's room, he'll squeal. The killer does as instructed, but as he sees a young man leave with said bag, he then kills the young man.#160;
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHighbridge Company
    Release dateJun 14, 2011
    Mind's Eye: An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery
    Woman with Birthmark: An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery
    Borkmann's Point: An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery

    Titles in the series (6)

    • 2

      Borkmann's Point: An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery
      Borkmann's Point: An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery

      Borkmann's Point: An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery

      Håkan Nesser
      4/5 - 44 ratings
      4/5 - 44 ratings

      An ex-con is brutally murdered with an ax in Kaalbringen. Then the body of a wealthy real estate mogul is found, also the victim of a violent attack. There appears to be a serial killer on the loose, and Chief Inspector Van Veeteren is called in to help the local police. As details surrounding the grisly murders are collected, Van Veeteren finds little to go on. But then there's another murder, and shortly thereafter one of Van Veeteren's colleagues, a promising female detective, goes missing-perhaps because the criminal knows she has come too close to the truth. . . .

      An ex-con is brutally murdered with an ax in Kaalbringen. Then the body of a wealthy real estate mogul is found, also the victim of a violent attack. There appears to be a serial killer on the loose, and Chief Inspector Van Veeteren is called in to help the local police. As details surrounding the grisly murders are collected, Van Veeteren finds little to go on. But then there's another murder, and shortly thereafter one of Van Veeteren's colleagues, a promising female detective, goes missing-perhaps because the criminal knows she has come too close to the truth. . . .

    • 1

      Mind's Eye: An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery
      Mind's Eye: An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery

      Mind's Eye: An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery

      Håkan Nesser
      4/5 - 44 ratings
      4/5 - 44 ratings

      Chief Inspector Van Veeteren knew that murder cases were never as open-and-shut as this one: Janek Mitter woke one morning with a brutal hangover and discovered his wife of three months lying facedown in the bathtub, dead. With only the flimsiest excuse as his defense, he is found guilty of a drunken crime of passion and imprisoned in a mental institution.But Van Veeteren's suspicions about the identity of the killer are borne out when Mitter also becomes a murder victim. Now the chief inspector launches a full-scale investigation of the two slayings. But it may only be the unspoken secrets of the dead-revealed in a mysterious letter that Mitter wrote shortly before his death-that will finally allow Van Veeteren to unmask the killer and expose the shocking root of this sordid violence.

      Chief Inspector Van Veeteren knew that murder cases were never as open-and-shut as this one: Janek Mitter woke one morning with a brutal hangover and discovered his wife of three months lying facedown in the bathtub, dead. With only the flimsiest excuse as his defense, he is found guilty of a drunken crime of passion and imprisoned in a mental institution.But Van Veeteren's suspicions about the identity of the killer are borne out when Mitter also becomes a murder victim. Now the chief inspector launches a full-scale investigation of the two slayings. But it may only be the unspoken secrets of the dead-revealed in a mysterious letter that Mitter wrote shortly before his death-that will finally allow Van Veeteren to unmask the killer and expose the shocking root of this sordid violence.

    • 4

      Woman with Birthmark: An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery
      Woman with Birthmark: An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery

      Woman with Birthmark: An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery

      Håkan Nesser
      4/5 - 20 ratings
      4/5 - 20 ratings

      After hearing her mother's deathbed confession and following the dreary funeral, Maria Adler realizes she has no other option but to seize upon her mother's imperative to do something. Dissolving the life she loathes, Maria changes her appearance and disappears. When she emerges, revenge is her sole occupation. Inspector Van Veeteren and his associates are left bewildered by the curious murder of a man shot twice in the heart and twice below the belt. He was a quiet, utterly dull man, and the only suspicious activity his surviving wife can recall is a series of peculiar phone calls. Repeatedly the telephone would ring, offering nothing but the words of an obscure pop song from the 1960s. This siren song is linked to an identical murder, but the true link between these heinous crimes remains unknown, while a daughter's pride grows with the satisfaction of vengeance and another detective's lover offers telling insights that only an outsider could deduce.With the critical eye and cool observation necessary for a successful chess match, Van Veeteren pursues his subject across the country, wading through outrageous leads and fruitless tips to a chilling conclusion.

      After hearing her mother's deathbed confession and following the dreary funeral, Maria Adler realizes she has no other option but to seize upon her mother's imperative to do something. Dissolving the life she loathes, Maria changes her appearance and disappears. When she emerges, revenge is her sole occupation. Inspector Van Veeteren and his associates are left bewildered by the curious murder of a man shot twice in the heart and twice below the belt. He was a quiet, utterly dull man, and the only suspicious activity his surviving wife can recall is a series of peculiar phone calls. Repeatedly the telephone would ring, offering nothing but the words of an obscure pop song from the 1960s. This siren song is linked to an identical murder, but the true link between these heinous crimes remains unknown, while a daughter's pride grows with the satisfaction of vengeance and another detective's lover offers telling insights that only an outsider could deduce.With the critical eye and cool observation necessary for a successful chess match, Van Veeteren pursues his subject across the country, wading through outrageous leads and fruitless tips to a chilling conclusion.

    • 5

      The Inspector and Silence: An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery
      The Inspector and Silence: An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery

      The Inspector and Silence: An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery

      Håkan Nesser
      4/5 - 19 ratings
      4/5 - 19 ratings

      A secretive and dubious religious sect comes under investigation as one of their young members, a girl on the cusp of puberty, is found dead in the forest, brutally raped and strangled. Adopting to remain silent over the incident rather than defend themselves, the members of The Pure Life-led by their intelligent but perturbing messiah figure, Oscar Yellineck-simultaneously anger and mystify Van Veeteren and the other detectives on the case. What#8217;s more, the girl#8217;s murder was tipped off by an unidentified woman, whose role becomes doubly perplexing as a string of increasingly horrifying new crimes defies everything the police thought they knew about the case and its sequence of events.

      A secretive and dubious religious sect comes under investigation as one of their young members, a girl on the cusp of puberty, is found dead in the forest, brutally raped and strangled. Adopting to remain silent over the incident rather than defend themselves, the members of The Pure Life-led by their intelligent but perturbing messiah figure, Oscar Yellineck-simultaneously anger and mystify Van Veeteren and the other detectives on the case. What#8217;s more, the girl#8217;s murder was tipped off by an unidentified woman, whose role becomes doubly perplexing as a string of increasingly horrifying new crimes defies everything the police thought they knew about the case and its sequence of events.

    • 6

      Munster's Case: An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery
      Munster's Case: An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery

      Munster's Case: An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery

      Håkan Nesser
      5/5 - 7 ratings
      5/5 - 7 ratings

      For Waldemar Leverkuhn, a retiree living with his wife in a small unit in an unassuming block of apartments, the day couldn#8217;t begin more auspiciously. He, along with three friends, have won the lottery. It#8217;s a modest but healthy sum of money and the old men toast to their good luck with a celebratory dinner at their usual haunt. The day ends, however, with Leverkuhn drunk, stumbling, belligerent, and eventually dead in his bed, stabbed twenty-eight times in the chest with a carving knife. After a cursory investigation on Leverkuhn#8217;s few friends and irritable family members that leads to more questions than answers, Leverkuhn#8217;s quiet, weary wife incredibly confesses to her husband#8217;s murder. The case seems to have solved itself, but when the Leverkuhn#8217;s formidable neighbor, Else Van Eck, goes missing and is later discovered in gruesome fashion, Detective Munster and his team find themselves back in the fog and chasing after whisps of clues that indicate that the murders are inextricably linked.

      For Waldemar Leverkuhn, a retiree living with his wife in a small unit in an unassuming block of apartments, the day couldn#8217;t begin more auspiciously. He, along with three friends, have won the lottery. It#8217;s a modest but healthy sum of money and the old men toast to their good luck with a celebratory dinner at their usual haunt. The day ends, however, with Leverkuhn drunk, stumbling, belligerent, and eventually dead in his bed, stabbed twenty-eight times in the chest with a carving knife. After a cursory investigation on Leverkuhn#8217;s few friends and irritable family members that leads to more questions than answers, Leverkuhn#8217;s quiet, weary wife incredibly confesses to her husband#8217;s murder. The case seems to have solved itself, but when the Leverkuhn#8217;s formidable neighbor, Else Van Eck, goes missing and is later discovered in gruesome fashion, Detective Munster and his team find themselves back in the fog and chasing after whisps of clues that indicate that the murders are inextricably linked.

    • 7

      Hour of the Wolf
      Hour of the Wolf

      Hour of the Wolf

      Håkan Nesser
      4/5 - 7 ratings
      4/5 - 7 ratings

      The master of Swedish crime fiction returns with this award-winning latest entry into the Van Veeteren series. It starts with a drunk man killing a boy as he hits him with his car. Thinking no one has seen him, he feels he's off the hook. Until he receives a message telling him that the sender knows what he's done and unless he pays him ransom, to be left in a bag at a secluded men's room, he'll squeal. The killer does as instructed, but as he sees a young man leave with said bag, he then kills the young man.#160;

      The master of Swedish crime fiction returns with this award-winning latest entry into the Van Veeteren series. It starts with a drunk man killing a boy as he hits him with his car. Thinking no one has seen him, he feels he's off the hook. Until he receives a message telling him that the sender knows what he's done and unless he pays him ransom, to be left in a bag at a secluded men's room, he'll squeal. The killer does as instructed, but as he sees a young man leave with said bag, he then kills the young man.#160;

    Author

    Håkan Nesser

    Håkan Nesser is one of Sweden’s most popular crime writers, receiving numerous awards for his novels featuring Inspector Van Veeteren, including the European Crime Fiction Star Award (Ripper Award) 2010/11, the Swedish Crime Writers’ Academy Prize (three times) and Scandinavia's Glass Key Award. The Van Veeteren series is published in over twenty-five countries and has sold over ten million copies worldwide. Håkan Nesser lives in Gotland with his wife and spends part of each year in the UK. In addition to the popular Van Veeteren series, his other books include the psychological thriller The Living and the Dead in Winsford and The Barbarotti series.

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