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by Hakan Nesser (Author)
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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Pan (1 May 2009)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0330492780
  • ISBN-13: 978-0330492782
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13 x 2.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 4,350 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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‘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 . . .



About the Author

Håkan Nesser was born in 1950 and is one of Sweden’s most popular crime writers, receiving numerous awards for his novels featuring commissioner Van Veeteren. He started writing while working as a teacher. Håkan Nesser lives in Uppsala with his wife and two sons.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars One of the better Nordic crime fictions, 24 Jul 2009
By Feanor (London, UK) - See all my reviews
In Håkan Nesser's acerbic and sardonic detective Van Veeteren, we have a wonderful winner. As police procedurals go, The Mind's Eye is representative of the genre; what raises this above the usual is the meta-text provided by the author - knowing asides and darkly humorous commentary that enliven the pages. Often, the chapters start with pronouns, requiring some amount of concentration from the reader to decide exactly who is being talked about; unlike reviewers elsewhere who found this confusing, I thought it refreshing, serving to keep the story going as well as keeping me alert. Van Veeteren is the classic noir footpad with a troubled marriage and a jailbird son, and has the usual likes (jazz and classical music) one expects from such a detective. He investigates the case of a husband wakes up one day to find his memory gone and his beautiful wife slaughtered. A sparkling set piece in a court enumerates the facts of the case. The husband is consigned to a mental institution where his memory returns, and for no reason I can discern, he sends a message to the killer. Shortly thereafter he is killed as well. The police procedural then takes over and the investigation proceeds meticulously. It is fairly obvious who the murderer is, even if it's not clear for a while what triggered the murderous spree. This is one of the better crime novels I've read, and I heartily recommend it.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars First Van Veeteren Mystery, 21 Jun 2009
This is the first in Hakan Nesser's Van Veeteren series, although numbers two and three, Borkmann's Point and The Return, were published before it in the UK.

The story opens as Janek Mitter wakes with a massive hangover and takes some considerable time to come to his senses, remember who he is, work out that he is in his own home, force his way into the locked bathroom and discover the drowned body of Eva Ringmar, his wife of three months. Unable to remember much of the events leading up to the murder and offer any defence, he is convicted of her murder and sent to a psychiatric institution.

Detective Chief Inspector Van Veeteren is the local police chief and, whilst he could find no reason in his interrogation of Mitter for him not to be charged, he is nonetheless unconvinced by the outcome and sets about further investigation, and so the case begins.

The writing style is recognisably Scandinavian, crisply narrated and with a classically tragic basis. The dialogue is believable, as is the story overall, and it is an easy read. However, I found Van Veeteren's supremely enigmatic and cerebral character difficult to establish any rapport with and his intuitive thought processes often impenetrably shrouded in obscure language. Meanwhile, his sizeable team of investigating officers offered plenty of scope to build a platform for future stories but were left more as a set of names rather than developing characters and, as the story concluded, I felt somewhat short-changed and unfulfilled.

That said, Van Veeteren's brooding mystery and Nesser's writing has the potential to establish their joint credentials in the varied genre of European detectives and I look forward to reading Borkmann's Point.
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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Immensely enjoyable, 18 May 2009
By D. P. Mankin (Ceredigion, Wales) - See all my reviews
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Hakan Nesser's novels are a real pleasure to read. His writing is crisp and his style entertaining, and also underpinned by a degree of dry humour and quirkiness that colours the personality of the central character. He has a deft touch and his plots draw you in. I was looking forward to this novel and I wasn't disappointed. I won't go into the plot but leave you to enjoy the unfolding story for yourself. The story is told in under 300 pages and therefore doesn't suffer from the padding found in the novels of some better known crime novelists.
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