Wow, one of the other reviewers commented on the continually dreary weather that seems to form a background for this series of mysteries, and I can certainly see what she meant in this particular case. The novel starts with a gruesome murder, then a disappearance, and finally another even more grue...
The first case with Inspector Van Veeteren off the case so I can't quite figure out why the series is continuing, but it has the same high quality expected out of Nesser. This book had some nice twists to it, but I couldn't help feeling that some of the questions from "side stories" weren't answered...