The Return: An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery

by Hakan Nesser
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Published by: Random House
eBook Publish Date: March 05, 2007
Print ISBN: 0375421971
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The author of Borkmann's Point spins a story that leaves even the most veteran crime novel readers chilled.

A new case for Chief Inspector Van Veeteren - the complicated history of a nearly perfect murder. On a sunny August day a man is released from prison. On a rainy April day children at play find his corpse. The fact that the dead man is Leopold Verhaven only becomes clear after some time because the mutilated corpse is without its head, legs and feet. Who would be interested in killing this man, a double murderer who spent 24 years in prison?

Determined to let no case go unsolved, Chief Inspector Van Veeteren reopens the case. What he discovers is that Verhaven was a star sprinter before he went to prison for allegedly killing two of his lovers. However, he never confessed to the murders and spent a lifetime proclaiming his innocence. Was he killed because someone thought he had not been punished enough? Or was someone afraid of Verhaven's revenge? A terrible suspicion stalks Van Veeteren: had Verhaven been telling the truth? Was he really innocent?

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In the second U.S. release by the Scandinavian Crime Society's Glass Key Award winner, the Swedish chief inspector unravels a perfect murder when an ex-con is killed 24 years after the crime. Six-city tour. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information. -- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY.

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Bio of Hakan Nesser

Hakan Nesser was born in 1950 in Sweden. In 1993 he was awarded the Swedish Crime Writers' Academy Prize for new authors for his novel The Wide-Meshed Net, the best novel award in 1994 for Borkmann's Point and in 1996 for Woman With a Birthmark. In 1999 he was awarded the Scandinavian Crime Society's Glass Key Award for the best crime novel of the year for Carambole. His novels have been published to wide acclaim in nine countries.