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It's a sweltering summer in Sweden and Chief Inspector Van Veeteren is long overdue for a holiday when a secretive and dubious religious sect comes under investigation. One of its members, a girl on the cusp of adolescence, is found dead in the forest near their holiday camp, brutally raped and strangled. The members of the Pure Life choose to remain silent about the incident rather than defend themselves.… (más)
Maybe 2 1/2 stars... I don't like it when the detective discovers something that isn't shared with the reader. So when Inspector Van Veeteren comes across an important clue in the telephone book, I am frustrated by the author not telling me what he saw. Then he meets with an unnamed woman who was previously married to a pedophile - clearly the murderer but since we don't know who the woman is how can we figure out who that is?!
I also felt that it seemed like a lot of descriptive details went into describing Van Veeteren's food and bathing - maybe this is supposed to make him human but it was just too much detail. ( )
I found the narrative quite disjointed at times and a hard time keeping track of all the secondary characters. The Silence refers to the three sisters I'd the religious cult Pure Life who refuse to say anything about the whereabouts of the sect's leader or the disappearance of two of the sect's girls. ( )
After reading the Stieg Larsson series of Swedish crime novels (Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, The Girl Who Played with Fire), I thought I'd try another popular crime novelist from Sweden, Hakan Nesser.
In The Inspector and the Silence, Chief Inspector Van Veeteren takes on the investigation into the murder of a pre-teen girl from the summer camp of a small religious sect in rural Sweden. The leaders of the sect remain silent and secretive, and clues are few, compounding Van Veeteren's problems.
The book does not have the tension or graphic depravity of the Stieg Larsson books, which might make it an easier read for the squeamish. In Hakan Nesser's book, the characters are interesting individuals, very human, and somewhat folksy in nature.
All in all, it's a nice little crime mystery without a lot of unnecessary graphic details, and keeps you wondering how the crime will be solved to the end. ( )
Dass er spannende Geschichten erzählen kann, deren Auflösung auch Kenner des Genres unerwartet trifft, hat btb-Bestsellerautor Håkan Nesser bereits mehrfach und mit großem Erfolg bewiesen. Seine Fangemeinde in Deutschland ist inzwischen riesig. Mit seinem eigenwilligen Ermittler Van Veeteren hat er einen Helden geschaffen, der das Zeug zum Klassiker hat - ein Mann mittleren Alters mit Magenbeschwerden, der klassische Musik liebt und seine Fälle mit einer Mischung aus schwarzem Humor und Intuition löst. Diesmal steht Van Veeteren vor einer besonders schwierigen Aufgabe. Aus einem Ferienlager sind zwei kleine Mädchen verschwunden. Kurz darauf werden sie ermordet aufgefunden. Steckt ein obskurer Sektenführer hinter den Taten? Oder hat man es mit einem unbekannten Psychopathen zu tun? Vor allem aber: Kann Van Veeteren ihn stoppen, bevor er erneut zuschlägt?
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Imagine a twelve-year old girl. Imagine her being attacked, raped and murdered. Take your time. Then imagine God.
M. Barin, poet
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The girl in bed number twelve woke up early.
Citas
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Cazzate. Il vocabolo le passò rapido per la mente, come già le era successo il giorno precedente. Cazzate. Allora non era riuscita a soffocarlo, le era solo scappato di bocca come una piccola rondine incollerita e disubbidiente, e d'un tratto si era gonfiato in una nuvola nera.
Creta? pensò, smontando. Perché no? Sì, davvero. Perché no? Se si poteva ricostruire una verginità con nuove membrane, doveva pur essere una faccenda abbastanza semplice lavare una verità rettroattiva dalla sabbia della menzogna.
Ma non c'era nulla. Nulla affiorò e nessun pensiero si cristallizzò. Solo quella parola, «impotenza», che a quel punto cominciava a sembrargli una vecchia conoscenza. Un parente vecchissimo e sconsolato che non voleva mai morire, e che non si poteva sbattere fuori; forse proprio per via della relazione di parentela.
«La ragione ha una sorella maggiore, non dimenticarlo. Si chiama Intuizione».
Il colloquio col sovrintendente Puttemans durò circa un'ora, e per tutto il tempo lui rimase a osservare la lenta discesa delle gocce di pioggia lungo i vetri delle finestre leggermente ondulati. Non sapeva spiegarsi perché, ma c'era qualcosa in quei rivoli sottili e irregolari che lo affascinava, e con cui non voleva interrompere il contatto. Per non perdere l'attimo imprevedibile in cui una di quelle infinite gocce d'improvviso ne avrebbe avuto abbastanza e avrebbe deciso di scorrere all'insù; sì, probabilmente era qualcosa del genere che gli girava per la mente. Qualcosa che aveva a che vedere con rivolta e affinità elettive. Oppure con i primi sintomi dell'Alzheimer, pensò terrorizzato.
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It's a sweltering summer in Sweden and Chief Inspector Van Veeteren is long overdue for a holiday when a secretive and dubious religious sect comes under investigation. One of its members, a girl on the cusp of adolescence, is found dead in the forest near their holiday camp, brutally raped and strangled. The members of the Pure Life choose to remain silent about the incident rather than defend themselves.
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I also felt that it seemed like a lot of descriptive details went into describing Van Veeteren's food and bathing - maybe this is supposed to make him human but it was just too much detail. (