Borkmann’s Point: An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery
by Håkan Nesser
Paperback, 321
Translation Published June 2009 by Vintage (First Published 1994)
Translated by Laurie Thompson
Rating: 3/5
Could it be true there is
a necessity behind most murders, a compulsion stronger than anything behind [an]other action? (BK — 294-295).
Perhaps it’s true or perhaps it’s nothing but pure hokum. The Axman in Håkan Nesser‘s Borkmann’s Point certainly thought murder was a necessary means to an end.
Borkmann’s Point is the second installment in the Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery series. I didn’t enjoy Borkmann’s Point as much as I hoped. Even after the second read. The plot was very thin and the characters, except for Beate Moerk, remained static. Oddly enough I didn’t like DCI Van Veeteren as much in this novel as much as I liked him in Mind’s Eye (click here to read my review).
Inspector Van Veeteren is on vacation and asked to assist with two gruesome murders in nearby Kalbringen in which the heads of two victims have been severed with what is suspected to be an ax. Van Veeteren is just as cantankerous Continue reading
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