An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery: Borkmann's Point : An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery (CD-Audio)

from johnwbeha

Rather like the last book I read, this book's overall Good Reads rating fits exactly to my view of its merits. It is a bit unclear as to whether this is the first or second book in the series (it seems more like the second, because there is little in the way of "set-up", but no matter. I was surp...

from bookczuk

Kind of a funny thing about this book. I read a review by a friend and put it on my wish list, then forgot about it. Two years later, I found a copy of Borkmann's Point at the local Goodwill and grabbed it up, confusing Nesser's Van Veeteren with the mystery writer Janwillem Lincoln van de Weteri...

from auntmarge64

The second in the Swedish Inspector Van Veeteren series, and it's really growing on me. Usually I like some meat on the bones, but these spare novels about a cynical and dryly bemused detective are just the thing for a reader needing something that just skims along on the top of the story. I don'...

from Jcambridge

This was the second of two Van Veeteren crime novels that I read during a recent trip that involved cross-country flights. While I found some aspects of the story interesting -- chapters that focused on the unidentified villain's reason for committing his crimes -- I was able to identify the vill...

from christiguc

This is the second book in the Van Veeteren series by Swedish mystery writer Hakan Nesser. It is the first that I have read. When Van Veeteren is nearing the end of his vacation on the coast, he gets called in to assist in a serial murder investigation in a nearby town. By the time Van Veeteren i...