The Return (24 page)

A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Håkan Nesser was awarded the 1993 Swedish Crime Writers’ Academy Prize for new authors with his novel
The Wide-Mesh Net
; he received the academy’s Best Novel Award in 1994 for
Borkmann’s Point
and in 1996 for
Woman with Birthmark.
In 1999, he was awarded the Glass Key Award by the Crime Writers of Scandinavia for the best crime novel of the year,
Carambole.
His novels have been published to acclaim in nine countries. Nesser was born in 1950 in Sweden, and he now divides his time between Sweden and New York.

A NOTE ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR

Laurie Thompson taught Swedish at the University of Wales and was editor of
Swedish Book Review
from its launch in 1983 until 2002. He has been a full-time literary translator for several years and has translated some forty books from Swedish. He was born in York, but now lives in rural west Wales with several cats and a Swedish wife.

ALSO BY HÅKAN NESSER

Borkmann’s Point

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Translation copyright © 2007 by Laurie Thompson

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published in Sweden as
Återkomsten
by Albert Bonniers Forlag AB, Stockholm, in 1995. Copyright © 1995 by Håkan Nesser.

Pantheon Books and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Nesser, Håkan, [date]

[Återkomsten. English]

The return : an Inspector Van Veeteren mystery / Håkan Nesser ; translated from the Swedish by Laurie Thompson.

p. cm.

I. Thompson, Laurie, 1938– II. Title.

PT
9876.24.
E
76A8413 2007

839.73'74—dc22 2006024011

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