The Inspector and Silence, Hakan Nesser
The Inspector and Silence, Hakan Nesser
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The Inspector and Silence
An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery

Author: Håkan Nesser

Narrator: Simon Vance

Unabridged: 7 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/14/2011


Synopsis

A secretive and dubious religious sect comes under investigation as one of their young members, a girl on the cusp of puberty, is found dead in the forest, brutally raped and strangled. Adopting to remain silent over the incident rather than defend themselves, the members of The Pure Life—led by their intelligent but perturbing messiah figure, Oscar Yellineck—simultaneously anger and mystify Van Veeteren and the other detectives on the case. What’s more, the girl’s murder was tipped off by an unidentified woman, whose role becomes doubly perplexing as a string of increasingly horrifying new crimes defies everything the police thought they knew about the case and its sequence of events.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jim on July 03, 2022

A barely teenage girl is sexually assaulted and killed at a summer camp run by a weird religious cult. Just about the only male around is the cult leader who keeps a harem of three women who do all the work with the girls. He’s sleazy enough to even deny that the girl was ever at his camp. So he’s t......more

Goodreads review by Nancy on October 19, 2011

Left to man the Sorbinowo police station while the chief takes time off to get over the death of his wife, Sergeant Merwin Kluuge isn't expecting much trouble in this bit of paradise. But it's not long until he receives an anonymous call from a woman claiming that a little girl has disappeared from......more

Goodreads review by Deb on July 21, 2019

Author Hakan Nesser can do no wrong in my eyes in the Inspector Van Veeteren series. As always, the inspector is introspective, but especially so in this, the fifth in this series of books. "VV" as many of his fellow detectives refer to him, is again considering retirement from the police force, but......more

Goodreads review by Livia on October 07, 2011

I was disappointed by this book. I'd read all the other Nesser books so far translated into English and I was looking forward to this one, so I felt a little let down. The story opens promisingly enough with a mysterious phonecall in which an unidentified woman claims a girl has been murdered at a s......more

Goodreads review by Janet on July 31, 2011

I really like VV - he's human, intuative, and deeply moved by the horrors he has seen including the little girls in this book. It was heading toward a 5 star read, but the ending of the book was weak to me. Nevertheless - the telling of the story was superb. I will read more of the VV mysteries and......more