The Unlucky Lottery
by:
Håkan Nesser (author)
The first English translation of one of the Swedish crime writer's novels featuring Chief Inspecter Van Veeteran, first published in Sweden in the 1990s. 5 million copies of Nesser's novels have sold worldwide.
The first English translation of one of the Swedish crime writer's novels featuring Chief Inspecter Van Veeteran, first published in Sweden in the 1990s. 5 million copies of Nesser's novels have sold worldwide.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780330512589 (0330512587)
Publish date: April 1st 2012
Publisher: Pan Publishing
Pages no: 438
Edition language: English
Series: Inspector Van Veeteren (#6)
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...
Not my favorite of Nesser's. I wasn't as drawn into the characters nor the storyline as other Van Veeteren. Although..there was a nice twist at the end exposing the criminal, it just seemed like too long of a road to get there.
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...
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