The Inspector and Silence
An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery

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

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

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

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

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