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Author
Series
Inspector Van Veeteren mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
321 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Chief Inspector Van Veeteren is called to the sleepy coastal town of Kalbringen to assist the local police in the investigation of two recent ax murders. Soon the case turns from bad to worse when another body turns up and one of Van Veeterenś colleagues, a young female detective, disappears without a trace. Now Van Veeteren must find the killer, and, it is hoped, his colleague, before anyone else comes to harm.
Author
Series
Inspector Van Veeteren volume 7
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
309 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the dead of night, in the pouring rain, a drunk driver smashes his car into a young man. He abandons the body at the side of the road, but the incident will set in motion a chain of events which will change his life forever. Soon Chief Inspector Van Veeteren, now retired from the Maardam police force, will face his greatest trial yet as someone close to him is, inexplicably, murdered. Van Veeteren's former colleagues, desperate for answers, struggle...
Author
Series
Inspector Van Veeteren mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
321 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
On a rainy April day, a body--or what is left of it--is found by a young girl. Wrapped in a blanket with no hands, feet, or head, it signals the work of a brutal, methodical killer. The victim, Leopold Verhaven, was a track star before he was convicted for killing two of his ex-lovers. He consistently proclaimed his innocence, however, and was killed on the day of his return to society. This latest murder is more than a little perplexing and Chief...
Author
Series
Inspector Van Veeteren mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
277 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Chief Inspector Van Veeteren knew that murder cases were never as open-and-shut as this one: Janek Mitter woke one morning with a brutal hangover and discovered his wife of three months lying face down in the bathtub, dead. With only the flimsiest excuse as his defense, he is found guilty of a drunken crime of passion and imprisoned in a mental institution. But Van Veeteren's suspicions about the identity of the killer are borne out when Mitter also...
Author
Series
Inspector Van Veeteren mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
305 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Four pensioners celebrate the fact that they have won 20,000 kronor in the lottery. Just hours later, one of them -- Waldemar Leverkuhn -- is found in his home, stabbed to death. With Chief Inspector Van Veeteren on sabbatical, working in a second hand bookshop, the case is assigned to Inspector Munster. But when another member of the lottery group disappears, as well as Leverkuhn's neighbour, Munster appeals to Van Veeteren for assistance. Soon Munster...
Author
Series
Inspector Van Veeteren mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
283 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
She finally found the body long after the sun had set. Darkness had begun to spread through the fir trees, and for one confused moment she wondered if it wasn't just an illusion after all... When a woman reports the disappearance of a girl, from the summer camp of an obscure sect: Pure Life, Inspector Van Veeteren is called to investigate. But is the woman telling the truth? Who is she? And what lies behind the sect leader's fanaticism? When the girl...
Author
Series
Inspector Van Veeteren mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
335 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
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...
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