Book description
'Don't you see,' he'd have liked to ask her, 'don't you see, that if
only you'd told me everything that first time we could have saved a
life? Possibly two . . .' Janek Mitter stumbles into his bathroom one
morning after a night of heavy drinking, to find his beautiful young
wife, Eva, floating dead in the bath. She has been brutally murdered.
Yet even during his trial Mitter cannot summon a single memory of
attacking Eva, nor a clue as to who could have killed her if he had not.
Only once he has been convicted and locked away in an asylum for the
criminally insane does he have a snatch of insight - but is it too late?
Drawing a blank after exhaustive interviews, Chief Inspector Van
Veeteren remains convinced that something, or someone, in the dead
woman's life has caused these tragic events. But the reasons for her
speedy remarriage have died with her. And as he delves even deeper, Van
Veeteren realizes that the past never stops haunting the present . . .
Håkan Nesser is one of Sweden's most popular crime writers,
receiving numerous awards for his novels featuring Inspector Van
Veeteren, including the European Crime Fiction Star Award (Ripper
Award) 2010/11, the Swedish Crime Writers' Academy Prize (three times)
and Scandinavia's Glass Key Award. The Van Veeteren series is
published in over 25 countries and has sold over 10 million copies
worldwide. Håkan Nesser lives in Gotland with his wife, and spends
part of each year in the UK.
Available from Håkan Nesser: Borkmann's Point, The Return, The
Mind's Eye, The Inspector and Silence, The Unlucky Lottery
