The Return by Hakan Nesser

The Return by Hakan Nesser

While on a field trip through the woods on the outskirts of Behren, a young girl stumbles upon a decomposing body wrapped in a carpet and lying in a ditch. The body has no hands, feet, or head, but this was not the work of wild animals. A brutal killer is on the loose but who is the victim?
From the hospital bed where he is recovering from surgery, Chief Inspector Van Veeteren begins to piece together the fragmentary clues that involve a nun who hides a secret, a crippled woman, the murders of two other women, and a former track star who served two sentences for murder and has been missing since the date of his return to society.
No one is who they appear to be, and a sleepy village finds itself reopening cases long considered closed. With the assistance of his colleagues, Van Veeteren faces the prospect of taking the law into his own hands in the face of a flawed system of justice.

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	9781400030330
ISBN 10	1400030331
Title	The Return
Author	Hakan Nesser
Series	Inspector Van Veeteren Series
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Random House LLC
Year published	2008-03-11
Number of pages	336
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