Munster's Case

Zusatztext Nesser has a penetrating eye for the skull beneath the skin. The New York Times Nesser's novels look for the roots of crime in the ills of society. . . . He has seized his chance to create his own dark poetry from these stark materials! and the effect is haunting. The Wall Street Journal Hakan Nesser's Swedish detective novel plays like an English parlor mystery! a sort of mental shell game as police sit to interview potential witness after witness! nearly all of whom are suspects until they die themselves. Charleston Post & Courier Sterling . . . Gallows humor punctuates the solid plot as Münster's introspective musings lead to a surprise ending. Publishers Weekly (starred review) Informationen zum Autor Håkan Nesser was awarded the 1993 Swedish Crime Writer's Academy Prize for new authors for Mind's Eye (published in Sweden as Det Grovmaskiga Nätet ); he received the best novel award in 1994 for Borkmann's Point and in 1996 for Woman with Birthmark. In 1999 he was awarded the Crime Writers of Scandanavia's Glass Key Award for the best crime novel of the year for Carambole. Nesser lives in Sweden and London. Klappentext Intendent Münster! Inspector Van Veeteren's right-hand man! and his beguiling colleague Ewa Moreno take center stage in the latest shocking thriller in Håkan Nesser's internationally bestselling series. The final day of Waldemar Leverkuhn's life begins auspiciously: With three friends! he wins a modest sum in the lottery. But it ends! after a celebratory dinner! with him belligerent! drunk! and stumbling home to his bed! where he is brutally stabbed to death with a carving knife. The case seems to be going nowhere! until the reserved! weary widow confesses to the killing. When the Leverkuhns' formidable neighbor goes missing! and then turns up gruesomely murdered! Münster and his team find a few! wispy clues that suggest her death is connected to Leverkuhn's-clues that lead to a dark and terrible secret. 1 The last day of Waldemar Leverkuhn's life could hardly have begun any better. After a windy night of nonstop rain, mild autumn sunshine was now creeping in through the kitchen window. From the balcony overlooking the courtyard he could hear the characteristic soft cooing of lovelorn pigeons, and the fading echo of his wife's footsteps on the stairs as she set off for the market. The Neuwe Blatt was spread out on the table in front of him, and he had just laced his morning coffee with a couple of drops of gin when Wauters rang. We won, Wauters said. Won? said Leverkuhn. Christ yes, we won! said Wauters. They said so on the radio. On the radio? Fuck me if we haven't won twenty thousand! Five eachand not a day too soon! The lottery? The lottery, yes. What else? What did I tell you? There was something special in the air when I bought the ticket. My God, yes! Mrs. Milkerson in the corner shop sort of coaxed it out! As if she really was picking out the right one. Two, five, five. One, six, five, five! It was the fives that won it for us, of course. I've had a feeling this was going to happen all week! How much did you say? Twenty thousand, for God's sake! Five each. I'll have to ring the others. Let's get together at Freddy's this eveningdammit, a party in Capernaum is called for! Five thousand . . . ? said Leverkuhn, but Wauters had already hung up. He remained standing for a while with the receiver in his hand, feeling dizzy. Five thousand guilders? He blinked carefully a few times, and when his eyes started to focus again they turned automatically to look at the wedding photograph on the bureau. The one in the gold frame. They settled gradually on Marie-Louise's round, milk...

Auteur

Håkan Nesser was awarded the 1993 Swedish Crime Writer’s Academy Prize for new authors for Mind’s Eye (published in Sweden as Det Grovmaskiga Nätet); he received the best novel award in 1994 for Borkmann’s Point and in 1996 for Woman with Birthmark. In 1999 he was awarded the Crime Writers of Scandanavia’s Glass Key Award for the best crime novel of the year for Carambole. Nesser lives in Sweden and London.

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Intendent Münster, Inspector Van Veeteren's right-hand man, and his beguiling colleague Ewa Moreno take center stage in the latest shocking thriller in Håkan Nesser's internationally bestselling series.

The final day of Waldemar Leverkuhn's life begins auspiciously: With three friends, he wins a modest sum in the lottery. But it ends, after a celebratory dinner, with him belligerent, drunk, and stumbling home to his bed, where he is brutally stabbed to death with a carving knife. The case seems to be going nowhere, until the reserved, weary widow confesses to the killing. When the Leverkuhns' formidable neighbor goes missing, and then turns up gruesomely murdered, Münster and his team find a few, wispy clues that suggest her death is connected to Leverkuhn's-clues that lead to a dark and terrible secret.