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Borkmann's Point

An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery
Jan 10, 2012CB2295 rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
This book #2 in the Inspector Van Veeteren series of ten books, the last three of which have not been translated into English as at early 2012 (as have none so far of the author’s subsequent Inspector Barbarotti series); this is a very good book of a quality matching Sweden’s Sjöwall/Wahlöö writing team from the 1960s; this second book in the series makes the background of the main character a lot clearer than the first book did and provides some useful detail about his non-police life which was a bit unclear in the first book; I look forward to reading more in the series, which appears to be set in the Netherlands more than anywhere else and thus offers a more coherent national character this time round that actually contributes to good atmospherics in the story