Synopses & Reviews
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.
Review
"Snappish, sardonic, unsentimental, depressed, and quite possibly psychic, Van Veeteren is the most appealingly unlovable hero since TV's crabby physician House."
--O, The Oprah Magazine
Review
"In a class of its own. . . . This stunning novel by one of Sweden's foremost crime writers might have been written as a script for Alfred Hitchcock."
--The Sunday Times (London) BookPage
Review
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Mind's Eye satisfies on every level. It is an intelligently written, cleverly plotted tale, populated with believable characters. . . . Nesser was superb right out of the gate."
--BookPage O, The Oprah magazine
Synopsis
One of Sweden's hottest detective series available for the first time on audio in US. Chief Inspector Van Veeteren of Maardam is divorced, grumpy, and cynical, and his love of dark beer, books, and chess is probably greater than his love for his job. But his intuition and ability to read people have made him a highly successful detective.
About the Author
HÅKAN NESSER was awarded the 1993 Swedish Crime Writers Academy Prize for new authors for Minds Eye (published in Sweden as Det Grovmaskiga Nåtet); he received the best novel award in 1994 for Borkmanns Point and in 1996 for Woman with Birthmark. In 1999 he was awarded the Crime Writers of Scandanavias Glass Key Award for the best crime novel of the year for Carambole. Nesser lives in Sweden and London.SIMON VANCE is a prolific and popular audiobook narrator and actor with several hundred audiobooks to his credit. An Audie® Award-winner, Vance was recently named "The Voice of Choice" by Booklist magazine.