La rondine, il gatto, la rosa, la morte

It's always such a treat being immersed back into Hakan Nesser's carefully crafted world of detection and intuition, and with reading the whole series to date I am always left with a feeling after each, that the one just finished is now my favourite/the best of the series. The Strangler's Honeymoon

The Strangler's Honeymoon by Hakan Nesser. This was the 9th in the chief Inspector Van Veeteren series and my 9th. This was the longest of all the books in this series and being a die hard fan of the Inspector's I plunged right in. Van Veeteren is retired which consists of working in an antiquarian bo Leggi tutto

Finito questo volume, ho abbassato il voto al precedente romanzo della serie. Motivo: il primo che ho letto mi era piaciuto molto; il secondo (appunto) una noiosità bestiale; questo è stato di nuovo molto piacevole. Allora, forse il motivo è che se i romanzi sono la serie di Van Veeteren, il buon Van Leggi tutto

Saved this for my recent holiday; a long book but I knew i wouldn't really wish to put it down once I started reading this latest Nesser. Plus Van Veeteren is back. What an engrossing novel is The Strangler's Honeymoon; beautifully crafted and originally created around a serial killer plot with a dif Leggi tutto

spoilerone.... ...non leggere questa recensione... ...che contiene uno spoilerone (view spoiler) [A me non piacciono i gialli che finiscono con il lettore che ne sa un bel po' di più degli investigatori! Si, lo psicopatico è stato individuato e non è più in grado di nuocere. Ma i poliziotti arrivano tardi. E han ca (hide spoiler)] Leggi tutto

Its been a while since I've read a book that is so completely "what just happened here?" Stranger's Honeymoon is book 9 of Van Veeteren mysteries but I don't think reading the prior 8 would have made things any better. Published in 2001, but only translated into english 2013 The Stranger's Honeymoon Leggi tutto

Seltsamer Titel aber guter Roman Wenn man den Titel dieses Romans liest, wundert man sich, was das denn nun wieder werden soll. Nun die Rose und der Tod stammen aus einem Gedicht, das für den Mörder und ein Opfer eine Rolle spielt und die Schwalbe wird von van Veeterens Katze gefressen. Beides eigen Leggi tutto

Demasiado tempo. Tanto na história, como na vida real passou demasiado tempo, durante qual me fui dedicando a outras leituras, deixando o serial killer, os detectives e as suas vidas pessoais em "stand by" vezes sem conta.Sou uma pessoa impaciente por natureza e naturalmente insatisfeita e, neste mo Leggi tutto

What do I think of this book. Well, that's a bit hard to say. I liked it, but... it really is a very slow book. The investigation into a murder (later 4 murders) is very slow. No clues, no ideas no nothing to work with. Despite the slowness, I liked it, as I already said. It still has that something Leggi tutto

Quite dark, but very good. My favourite in the series is still "Hour of the Wolf", but this 9th book comes pretty close