audio I liked this even though I knew the story from the tv program. The homocide department seems to be back in proper performance. This is probably the end of VV's participation which is what should happen to main characters with a semblance to reality.

Wow. Wow. Wow. I have read all the books in the series around Chief Inspector Van Veeteren and I have loved each and every one, but this one is simply breathtaking. The story starts off with a terrible accident and the events that unfold after that just becomes a complete nightmare. The pace never lets up and thankfully today has been an immensely hot day so I sat in the garden and I devoured this cracking book.The only downside is that I sorely missed Munster but the reason he isn't featured I

This time around I have returned to Hakan Nesser and the world of Van Veeteren. There is something I enjoy about these books. They may not be as complicated as many of there counterparts in this genre of books. But he flows well and you can sink your teeth into them on a quiet afternoon, and have an enjoyable time with them. His cast of characters are always a joy to spend time with, he gives them real lives and personality and thorough out the books gives them time to breathe. If you spend an

My favorite so far in this great series. This is a police procedural with heart and teamwork. The Chief Inspector is the emotional center even if he's retired. Excellent.Hopefully the next books will be published in the U.S. soon.

Van Veeteren is not my favourite detective, but the thrillers that have him as MC are very decent. Good pace, attention to details and lifelike persons. In this novel everything starts with an ordinary, stupid accident which is the start of a lot of violence. The starting point is ok, but the thoughts and the actions of the characters are illogical at times.

Apparently when not constructing IKEA furniture with tiny Allen wrenches, eating scrumptious round chokladbolls, or dancing to Ace of Bass, the Swedish folk are committing heinous acts of murder. Thankfully there are talented writers such as Stieg Larsson, Henning Mankell, and Hakan Nesser to warn the rest of the world that we all need to stay as far away from this hellish Nordic land of deviant slaughter and bloody barbarity as possible. Their well-conditioned (and very very soft) blonde hair a...

Hour of the Wolf by Hakan Nesser.A SHOCKING JOURNEY. This novel in the Inspector Van Veeteren series has more than just twists & turns. It has more than mere surprises. It is a series of the worst choices a person could make that establish a journey into the abyss for one man. And the end of other lives in the wake of this journey.Inspector Van Veeteren is retired and the new Chief Inspector is Reinhart. Rooth, Moreno, and the rest of Inspectors former colleagues work together as they did so man...

You can read kind my review here as well: http://storypals.net/book-report-hour...HOUR OF THE WOLFI was in one of those moods where I wanted to read some good mystery, something psychotic and something very dangerous.The blurb of the book said that it got someone howling in pain which is why I instantly picked it up.Also, Håkan Nesser has been on my radar for a while now and it all went like uh what the heck let’s just read this book.NO spoilers, will not reveal who killed who and what happened

Wonderful story in this strong cannon of detective fiction around a fiction place where intelligence and intuition go hand in hand with old fashioned leg work. The key player is Chief Inspector Van Veeteren, retired, but compelled back to an investigation when a murder happens closer to home than he could ever imagine.The story is about chance events and encounters and how various decisions can impact on your life and the future of complete strangers beginning with the missing of a late bus.Well...

Another great one from Nesser. THis one is about a man who makes a decision to drive home after an evening with friends, even though he has had too much to drink. So this , including the dark and rainy night, leads him to hit a young boy walking home that evening because he missed the last bus. He stops, but the boy is already dead, having hit his head on the concrete culvert beside the road. So, he makes another bad choice and drives off. Several days later, he receives a letter. The writer dro...

A great Swedish police proceduralThis is Nesser at his best! Great plot, unexpected, built around the murder of a retired Van Veeteren's somewhat estranged son. Well written and fantastically translated by the late Laurie Thompson.

Enjoyed it, easy read. I'm a Jussi Adler-Olsen fan (Department Q series) and this by Hakan Nesser has a very similar feel to it. As it's also a series I'll be trying from the start I think. Free on Borrowbox (UK online library).

I am reluctant to assign five stars to a mystery novel that is in no way a literary masterpiece. Hakan Nesser's "Hour of the Wolf" does not have the sociological depths of Denise Mina's "Gartnethill". It does not have the simple beauty of some of Karin Fossum's best work. Yet it is such a darn good book. On the surface it is a police procedural, one in Mr. Nesser's Chief Inspector Van Veeteren series, which is located in a fictitious country in Northern Europe that seems like a cross between the...

quite good read. slow and very nice approach to a team of investigators, each one with his human side very gently described. interesting plot.

'Life is a tangle of remarkable connections.'My first Nesser and I wonder how he's managed to evade me till now - thanks Jola and Rachel for correcting this! As someone who gets very grumpy when faced with the more gothic and spectacularly melodramatic end of the crime spectrum (insane psychopaths driven by pop-psychology explanations of childhood trauma, serial killers who commit murders by tying their victims to giant clock mechanisms in order to tear them apart...), this book suited me perfec...

In my opinion, this series just keeps getting better with every book. This one was a page turner and even though Chief Inspector Van Veeteren is now retired and not as central to the story (he still features), it is great the way the other cast of characters we have been introduced to in previous books, can keep the series just as interesting. A teenage boy is killed in a hit and run, and this starts a chain of events that have terrible consequences, especially for Van Veeteren. Reinhart takes c...

Excellent. I will be reading all other books by this author

As a long-term fan of this series, I have found plenty to admire in the previous six instalments, however Hour of the Wolf is one of the most magnetising outings yet, both for the horrific devastation unleashed by one single action, and the very personal responses it evokes from within the Maardam CID when one of their own is affected. After fifteen-years at the helm of CID, former Chief Inspector Van Veeteren is approaching two-years since his retirement and new role as part-owner of Krantze’s

Håkan Nesser. Number 7 Van Veeteren mystery series.If there is a librarian out there that can help sort out the messed up listings of HAKAN to Håkan Nesser...please help. I will do anything you need to assist. It is a mess...This was the best Håkan Nesser VV books yet even though he is retired to the bookshop he comes into the story again and again. Truly a story of chilling circumstances that lead to consequences that ruin five lives and affect many others. Highly recommend it as a very good re...

Now that's how you write a mystery!This book had everything a mystery needs: insight into the mind of one of the victims, insight into the mind of the murderer, insight into the personal lives of the police officers, dry humor, nordic noir broody atmosphere, constant suspense, parallels between the murders and certain games or game theories... (On the last point, I loved how the chess analogy made me figure out the ending a short while before it happened).I love when mysteries are character-driv...