Woman with Birthmark: An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery
by Hakan Nesser
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New/As New
- ISBN 10
- 0375425047
- ISBN 13
- 9780375425042
- Seller
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About This Item
A mother's dying wish sealed with a deadly promise. Four men with a secret they thought they'd buried decades ago. A detective in love. A man desperate to live despite the shadow of his guilty past.
After hearing her mother's deathbed confession and following the dreary funeral, Maria Adler realizes she has no other option but to seize upon her mother's imperative to do something. Dissolving the life she loathes, Maria changes her appearance and disappears. When she emerges, revenge is her sole occupation.
Inspector Van Veeteren and his associates are left bewildered by the curious murder of a man shot twice in the heart and twice below the belt. He was a quiet, utterly dull man, and the only suspicious activity his surviving wife can recall is a series of peculiar phone calls. Repeatedly the telephone would ring, offering nothing but the words of an obscure pop song from the 1960s. This siren song is linked to an identical murder, but the true link between these heinous crimes remains unknown, while a daughter's pride grows with the satisfaction of vengeance and another detective's lover offers telling insights that only an outsider could deduce.
With the critical eye and cool observation necessary for a successful chess match, Van Veeteren pursues his subject across the country, wading through outrageous leads and fruitless tips. A breathless thriller full of deception, blackmail, and cold murder, Woman with Birthmark is a chilling read.
Synopsis
Håkan Nesser was born in 1950 in Sweden. In 1993 he was awarded the Swedish Crime Writers’ Academy Prize for new authors for his novel Mind’s Eye , and is the only author to have won the Academy’s best novel award three times: in 1994 for Borkmann’s Point ; in 1996 for Woman with Birthmark ; and in 2007 for A Rather Different Story . In 1999 he was awarded the Scandinavian Crime Society’s Glass Key Award for the best crime novel of the year for Carambole . His novels have been published to wide acclaim in nearly thirty countries.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Nostalgic Books & Elements (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23mark2009
- Title
- Woman with Birthmark
- Author
- Hakan Nesser
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First United States Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0375425047
- ISBN 13
- 9780375425042
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2009-04-14
- Keywords
- fiction mystery suspense thriller
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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