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Borkmann's Point

Audiobook
Fiction: Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural
Unabridged   7.5 hour(s)
Publication date: 06/14/2011

Borkmann's Point

An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery

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Audio CD ISBN:9781611742718
Digital Download ISBN:9781611742725

Summary

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.
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Product Description

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. . . .

Reviews/Praise

“Narrator Simon Vance does his usual sterling job distinguishing among multiple characters, emotions and motivations. He also skillfully adds asides and explanations with just the right impatience, frustrations, awe, and insight to embellish the story and its twisty climax. Fans of cerebral, procedural, or Maigret-like mysteries will certainly enjoy this.”
      —Library Journal [starred review]

“Simon Vance . . . is nothing short of stellar. . . . The characters have depth and the plot has all the necessary ingredients—including a race against time—to satisfy even the most selective mystery fan. Vance’s winning narration is the perfect icing on a very tasty cake.”
      —Publishers Weekly [starred review]

“No reader of hard-boiled crime fiction should miss the Scandinavians, and Nesser immediately vaults to near-Mankell status. Let’s hope Borkmann’s Point, which won the Swedish Crime Writers’ Best Novel Award for 1994, is only the first of a steady stream of Nesser imports.”
      —Booklist [HC starred review]

Author Bio

HÅKAN NESSER was awarded the 1993 Swedish Crime Writers’ Academy Prize for new authors for Mind’s Eye (published in Sweden as Det Grovmaskiga Nåtet); he received the best novel award in 1994 for Borkmann’s Point and in 1996 for Woman with Birthmark. In 1999 he was awarded the Crime Writers of Scandanavia’s Glass Key Award for the best crime novel of the year for Carambole. Nesser lives in Sweden and New York.

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