A young woman shivers in the December cold as her mother's body is laid to rest in a cemetery. The only thing that warms her is the thought of the revenge she will soon take ...

Then a middle-aged man is killed at his home, shot twice in the chest and twice below the belt. He had recently received a series of bizarre phone calls where an old song is played down the line -- evoking an eerie sense of both familiarity and unease. Before the police can find the culprit, a second man is killed in the same way.

Chief Inspector Van Veeteren and his team must dig far back into each man's past -- but with few clues at each crime scene, can they find the killer before anyone else dies?

Looks like I've found yet another series to follow - I loved everything about this, the great characterisation & gripping storyline had me hooked & I loved the quirky sense of humour that kept popping up.

I particularly liked the fact that throughout you know who the killer is yet you never really know her - makes sense when you read it!

I was a little confused though as Van Veeteran is a Swedish detective (according to all the praise & blurb) but the currency that was mentioned was guilders & talk of importing from Scandanavia indicated to me that they weren't in Sweden. However according to that font of all knowledge Wikipedia:
These books play out in a fictitious city called Maardam, said to be located in northern Europe in a country which is never named but resembles Sweden, the Netherlands, Poland and Germany. The names however are mostly Dutch.

Problem solved....... ;o)

Left on a bench

Released as part of the 2013 CHRISTMAS IN JULY Challenge (#25) because of it's snowy cover.




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