Borkmann's Point (The Van Veeteren series, 2) - Softcover

Nesser, Håkan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0330448692 ISBN 13: 9780330448697

Publisher: Pan Books, 2007

Synopsis

321pp , About the author :: Håkan Nesser (born February 21, 1950 ) is an author and former Swedish school teacher , writer of many successful novels, mostly detective genre . Has won three times Best Swedish Crime Novel Award and his novel Carambole won the Glass Key award in 2000. His books have been translated from Swedish into different languages ... Håkan Nesser born and raised in Kumla , Örebro County and has lived his adult life in Uppsala. His first novel was published in 1988 , although he worked as a teacher until 1998 when he became a full time writer . In August 2006 , Håkan Nesser and his wife Elke (psychiatrist by profession ) moved to Greenwich Village in New York. A few years later, the couple packed up and moved to London where it was easier for his wife to find work ... With his detective novel , Människa utan hund ( Human without a dog ) , published in 2006, introduced a new character Nesser principal , Inspector Gunnar Barbarotti , a Swedish police inspector of Italian descent . Since then it has been the princial character in detective novels Nesser . Barbarotti is more optimistic than Van Veeteren character . Although the books are set in Sweden , the people of Kymlinge is fictitious and named after a ' abandoned subway station " in Stockholm ... Nesser said in an interview that has designed two more books before ending the saga of Inspector Barbarotti , one of them set in London and a final piece ..

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Review

'Another good Swedish writer emerges, an old hand, garlanded with his country’s prizes, but only now translated into English' -- Marcel Berlins, The Times

'Nesser spends as much time with his characters as with the mystery... creating an absorbing tale with an unexpected ending.' -- The Sunday Telegraph

'The novel’s prime asset is the mordant clarity of Nesser’s voice. Its understatement is a pleasure in itself' -- TLS

'Van Veeteren...is a warmer, more good-humoured personality than we have come to expect of Scandinavian policemen. -- The Sunday Telegraph

Book Description

The third novel in the internationally acclaimed Inspector Van Veeteren series.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pan Books
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0330448692
• ISBN 13: 9780330448697
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336