Hour of the Wolf by Hakan Nesser

Hour of the Wolf by Hakan Nesser

A boy in a dark duffel coat. Lying in the ditch. Contorted at impossible angles, with his back pressed up against a concrete culvert and his face staring straight at him. As if he were trying to make some kind of contact. As if he wanted to tell him something.

In the middle of a damp, dark night, a young man is struck by a car after leaving his girlfriend s house. The driver, drunk, leaves the body by the side of the road. Wrestling with guilt, the driver tries to put the murder out of his mind until a blackmail note arrives, setting into motion a chain of events that will draw everyone involved into a fog of crime.
Reinhart, the new chief inspector of the Maardam police force, sets his team to work. But when the victim of a second, possibly related, killing is identified, Reinhart realizes that this is no ordinary investigation. In Hour of the Wolf, former chief inspector Van Veeteren a legend now in retirement is called upon to face his greatest trial yet, when someone close to him is found dead.
Van Veeteren s former colleagues, desperate for answers, struggle to decipher the clues to these appalling crimes. As the killer becomes increasingly unhinged and unpredictable, Van Veeteren is forced to reenter a world he left behind, and to avenge a death. Told with Hakan Nesser s trademark eye for detail, breakneck plotting, and gut-wrenching moral tension, Hour of the Wolf finds the Nordic noir superstar spinning one of his darkest tales yet.

With Mind's Eye (published in Sweden as Det Grovmaskiga Natet), Hakan Nesser got the Swedish Crime Writers' Academy Award for New Authors in 1993; for Borkmann's Point in 1994 and Woman with Birthmark in 1996, he received the best novel award. For Carambole, he received the Glass Key Award from the Crime Writers of Scandanavia in 1999 for best crime fiction of the year. Nesser splits his time between Sweden and London.

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ISBN 13	9780307906878
ISBN 10	0307906876
Title	Hour of the Wolf
Author	Hakan Nesser
Series	Inspector Van Veeteren Mysteries
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Pantheon Books
Year published	2016-01-12
Number of pages	320
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