Mind's Eye: An Inspector Van Vetteren Mystery (1)

Hakan Nesser

Jun 2008 · Inspector Van Veeteren Series Book 1 · Sold by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

About this ebook

International Bestseller 

Håkan Nesser is firmly established as one of the world's bestselling crime novelists. And now the novel that introduced Chief Inspector Van Veeteren is available for the first time in English.

 

The swift conviction left Van Veeteren uneasy: Janek Mitter woke one morning with a brutal hangover and his wife dead in the bathtub. With only the flimsiest defense, he is found guilty and imprisoned in a mental institution. But when Mitter is murdered in his bed, Van Veeteren regrets not following his gut and launches an investigation into the two murders. As the chief inspector delves deeper, the twisted root of these violent murders will shock even him.

Ratings and reviews

Wanted to give more like 3 1/2 stars. Not quite 4-star good, better than average, tho. A little bit of translation disconnect, it seemed. Certainly better than some i've read. Plot wasn't so transparent you knew what was coming for the last half of the book......

Very nice and easy

About the author

Håkan Nesser was born in 1950 in Sweden. In 1993 he was awarded the Swedish Crime Writers' Academy Prize for new authors for his novel Mind's Eye, and is the only author to have won the Academy's best novel award three times: in 1994 for Borkmann's Point; in 1996 for Woman with Birthmark; and in 2007 for A Rather Different Story. In 1999 he was awarded the Crime Writers of Scandinavia's Glass Key Award for the best crime novel of the year for Carambole. His novels have been published to wide acclaim in twenty-five countries.