The Inspector and Silence

Resumen del libro

In the heart of summer, the country swelters in a fug of heat. In the beautiful forested lake-town of Sorbinowo, Sergeant Merwin Kluuge's tranquil existence is shattered when he receives a phone-call from an anonymous woman. She tells him that a girl has gone missing from the summer camp of the mysterious The Pure Life, a religious sect buried deep in the woods. Chief Inspector Van Veeteren is recruited to help solve the mystery.


But Van Veeteren's investigations at The Pure Life go nowhere fast. The strange priest-like figure who leads the sect -Oscar Yellineck- refuses even to admit anyone is missing. Things soon take a sinister turn, however, when a young girl's body is discovered in the woods, raped and strangled; and Yellineck himself disappears. Yet even in the face of these new horrors, the remaining members of the sect refuse to co-operate with Van Veeteren, remaining largely silent.


As the body count rises, a media frenzy descends upon the town and the pressure to find the monster behind the murders weighs heavily on the investigative team. Finally Van Veeteren realises that to solve this disturbing case, faced with silence and with few clues to follow, he has only his intuition to rely on. . .

Biografía del autor

H kan Nesser (1950) es uno de los autores de novela negra más destacados del mundo, con más de 20 millones de ejemplares vendidos y publicado en más de 30 países. De entre su prolífica carrera destacan sus dos grandes creaciones literarias, el comisario Van Veeteren, una serie de novela negra formada por diez títulos, y la serie protagonizada por Gunnar Barbarotti, que consta, hasta el momento, con siete entregas. De entre los muchos premios que ha recibido, destacan el Glass Key, el European Crime Fiction Star Award, el Gold Paperback Award, el SNCF de Francia, de Francia, Palle Rosenkrantz Prize. Además, es el único autor que ha recibido hasta en tres ocasiones el Mejor novela negra escandinava otorgado por la Academia Sueca de Escritores.