- Detective and mystery stories, Inspector Van Veeteren (Fictitious character), Fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general
When a young girl on a woodland hike stumbles upon a corpse with no hands, feet, or head, Chief Inspector Van Veeteren, recovering from surgery in a nearby hospital, begins to piece together the clues in the case.
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Classical in form, contemporary, earnest and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
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About the book
- Author
- Håkan Nesser
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 321
- Publisher
- btb, Pantheon Books, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9783442725984
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