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An axe murderer. Swedish writer Hakan Nesser’s second Inspector Van Veeteren is about, no kidding, an axe murderer. In Nesser’s fictional Maardam (which is somewhere in Northern Europe) Detective Chief Inspector Van Veeteren is on holiday in the coastal village of Kaalbringen (also a fictional town) Leggi tutto

Borkmann's Point: "the point beyond which we really don't need any more information. When we reach that point, we already know enough to solve the case by means of nothing more than some decent thinking. " And it is precisely at this point that Inspector Van Veeteren begins to focus on the identity

Description: Chief Inspector Van Veeteren is called to the sleepy coastal town of Kalbringen to assist the local police in the investigation of two recent ax murders. Soon the case turns from bad to worse when another body turns up and one of Van Veeteren’s colleagues, a young female detective, disa Leggi tutto

It read easily but without flair. Too much padding in attempt to prolong little bursts of weak suspense. Too much extraneous detail about various characters' interior lives which was completely irrelevant to the story, without the saving grace of providing a different perspective into the human cond Leggi tutto

Όπως τα περισσότερα αδστυνομικά μυθιστορήματα, είναι ένα πολύ καλό page turner, αλλά δυστυχώς αυτή τη φορά κατάλαβα το δολοφόνο λίγο πριν τη μέση...

After a very good "Mind's Eye", I found this book slightly disappointing. The plot felt slow at times, which was pretty frustrating. However, that might be exactly what the author intended: the reader to become as frustrated as the investigative team with the lack of progress in solving the crime! I Leggi tutto

I gialli svedesi di Nesser mi piacciono, per l’umanità e la comprensione con cui i personaggi sono tratteggiati –che ricordano il Maigret di Simenon-, per la tensione non esagerata ma continuata che ti spinge ad andare avanti nella lettura, per la soluzione del caso che arriva inaspettata, anche se Leggi tutto

Daha çok 4.5/5 diyebilirim. Güzel bir finale sahip şahane bir polisiyeydi bence, ben katili bulduğumu sandım ama o çıkmadı, iyi ki de çıkmadı. Bu kitaptaki en büyük sorun edit kısmı. Bir de neden saik diye kimsenin bilmediği, duymadığı, garip bir hukuki terimi katilin yöntemini anlatmak için kullanı Leggi tutto

O Νesser έκανε και πάλι το θαύμα του! Έγραψε ένα απο τα κλασικότερα μυθιστορήματα της Σκανδιναβικής 'Σχολής' (1994) Αστυνομικής Λογοτεχνίας, εκφράζοντας το πνεύμα της δεκαετίας του '90, το οποίο επέβαλλε σαφή και έντονα κοινωνικά μηνύματα. Το συγκεκριμένο μυθιστόρημα τιμήθηκε με το Bραβείο Καλύτερου Leggi tutto

Borkmann is an old cop, one of the few that Chief Inspector Van Veeteren respects. Van Veeteren is thinking about Borkmann while he’s sitting in the tub, three bottles of brown ale in a bucket of cold water on the floor “and a dish of fat olives within easy reach.” In every investigation, Borkmann m Leggi tutto