Tuesday, 6 May 2025

Hakan Nesser, The Living and the Dead in Winsford

 I like Hakan Nesser's sense of humour. He is most well known for the Van Veeteren mysteries, a series of novels set in a fictional northern European country that is never named and has elements of the Netherlands, Scandinavia, the Baltic coast and others. This novel however is the complete opposite set in a very specific place, a tiny hamlet on Exmoor. huge amount of detail on the landscape, area and  walks around the environs. Also a cracking read with an excellent denouement. Does a book set in Devon qualify as Scandi noir though?

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