A middle-aged teacher wakes up one morning not remembering who he is. But as he stumbles into the bathroom, he sees the body of a beautiful young woman floating dead in his bath. The woman is his wife, Eva Ringmar, and she has been viciously attacked. Even during his trial Janek More...Mitter can recall no memories of attacking his wife, nor a clue as to who could have killed her if he had not. Only once sentenced and locked up in an asylum for the criminally insane does he have a snatch of insight. He scribbles something in his Bible, but he is murdered before the clue can be uncovered. Chief Inspector van Veeteren becomes convinced that something, or someone, in the dead woman’s life has caused this tragic double-murder. Exhaustive interviews with staff at the school where the couple worked, staff at the asylum, interviews with her mother and ex-husband, all draw a blank. But Van Veeteren learns that Eva’s own past life had enough sorrows to try the patience of Job – and the reasons for her speedy remarriage have died with her. So as he must cast his net even wider, he realises that the past never really stops haunting the present . . .
Håkan Nesser (born February 21, 1950) is a Swedish author and teacher who has written a number of successful novels, mostly crime fiction. He has won Best Swedish Crime Novel Award three times, and his novel Carambole won the Glass Key award in 2000. His books have been translated from Swedish into numerous languages.
Håkan Nesser was born and grew up in Kumla, Örebro County, and has lived most of his adult life in Uppsala. His first novel was published in 1988, but he worked as a teacher until 1998 when he became a full-time author. In August, 2006, Håkan Nesser and his wife Elke (a psychiatrist)moved to Greenwich Village in New York. A few years later the couple packed their bags and moved to London since it was easier for his wife to find work there.
A recurring main character is called Van Veeteren, a detective in the early novels and later the owner of an antique books shop. 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.
With his 2006 crime novel Människa utan hund (Human without Dog) Nesser introduced a new main character, Inspector Gunnar Barbarotti, a Swedish police inspector of Italian descent. He has remained the main ”hero” in Nesser’s crime books since then. Barbarotti is a more upbeat character then Van Veeteren and the books are firmly set in Sweden, although the town of Kymlinge is fictitious and named after an "abandoned tube station" in Stockholm.
Nesser explained in an interview that he has four books left in him. Two more with Inspector Barbarotti, a novel about London and a final masterpiece.
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这部作品无疑是近年来悬疑推理小说领域的一股清流,它没有采用那种铺天盖地的血腥描写或者刻意制造的惊悚氛围来抓住读者,而是巧妙地将故事的重心放在了人性的幽微之处和错综复杂的社会关系网中。作者对于细节的把控达到了近乎苛刻的地步,每一个看似不经意的场景设置、每一句人物对话,都像是一枚精密齿轮,最终咬合在一起,驱动着整个叙事齿轮向前转动。我尤其欣赏它对“动机”的深度挖掘,很多犯罪故事往往止步于“谁干的”,但这本书却深入探究了“为什么会变成这样”。主角的内心挣扎与外部世界的压力形成了强烈的张力,让人在阅读过程中不断地反思,如果换做是自己,是否也能坚守住内心的道德底线。书中对某个特定职业群体(我不会点明是哪个,以免剧透)的职场生态描绘得入木三分,那种隐秘的竞争、微妙的权力斗争,比任何直接的暴力冲突都更令人不寒而栗。读完之后,那种回味悠长的感觉,不是因为猜中了凶手,而是因为被故事中人物的悲剧命运深深触动了。它更像是一面镜子,映照出我们这个时代某些不容忽视的阴影。
评分读完这本书,我感受到的不是完结的释然,而是一种深刻的、关于“选择的代价”的沉重反思。作者的文笔非常细腻,尤其擅长捕捉人物在极端压力下的细微情绪波动,比如犹豫、自我欺骗、以及最后的绝望。这种细腻让故事中的人物变得异常真实可信,即便他们的行为是极端的,你也能够理解他们行为背后的驱动力。书中关于道德模糊地带的探讨尤其深刻,它没有给出简单的对错答案,而是将一个复杂的人性困境摆在读者面前,让你自己去评判,去承受那种“两难境地”的重量。我欣赏它拒绝平庸化处理复杂议题的态度,它敢于触碰一些社会中敏感且难以启齿的话题,并通过一个引人入胜的故事外壳将其包裹起来,使得严肃的讨论能够以一种更具吸引力的方式被大众所接受。这是一部需要安静下来,慢慢品味的力作,不适合在嘈杂的环境下匆忙翻阅,因为它需要你投入全部的心神去感受那些潜藏在字面之下的情感暗流。
评分我必须承认,这本书的叙事节奏把握得极为出色,它像是一首结构宏大的交响乐,起初是缓慢而富有层次的铺陈,每个音符都带着明确的目的性,绝无赘余。当第一幕达到一个相对的平静后,音乐突然转向激昂的小提琴独奏,悬念如同藤蔓般迅速攀升,直到高潮部分的爆发,那种酣畅淋漓的阅读体验,很久没有在其他小说中体会到了。不过,最令我惊艳的是作者对于“环境心理学”的运用。书中的主要场景——一座被遗忘已久的古老建筑——本身就成了一个活生生的角色,它的光影、气味、回声,都无形中塑造和扭曲了人物的感知。我甚至在阅读时产生了一种错觉,仿佛自己也置身于那个潮湿、阴暗的走廊里,每一次转角都充满了未知的恐惧。这本书的语言风格典雅又不失力量,夹杂着一些哲学性的思考,但又绝不会让人感到晦涩难懂。它在保持故事性的同时,成功地构建了一个值得细细品味的文学世界。如果你期待的是那种快餐式的、追求感官刺激的作品,这本书或许会让你慢下来,但绝对会让你收获更多。
评分这部作品带给我的阅读体验,是那种久违的、智力上的高强度挑战。它并不试图用大量动作场面来弥补情节上的空洞,而是将核心战场设置在逻辑推理与反逻辑推理的交锋之上。作者似乎对传统的推理模式不屑一顾,他更热衷于玩弄读者的预期,比如,当所有线索都指向A时,他会让你相信是B的杰作,直到最后一刻才揭示出,原来真正的幕后黑手是那个你从未怀疑过的、站在舞台边缘的角色。我特别喜欢其中对于“时间错位”的运用,多条时间线并行推进,但彼此之间的干扰和影响,却通过一些非常细微的、非直接的方式联系起来,这要求读者必须保持极高的专注度,稍不留神就会错过关键的逻辑跳跃。它不仅是一部推理小说,更像是一场精心设计的思维迷宫,当你以为找到了出口时,却发现自己回到了起点,但这一次,你对迷宫的结构有了更深刻的理解。这种层层剥茧的智力博弈,让阅读过程本身变成了一种成就感的来源。
评分说实话,初翻开这本小说时,我对它的期待值并不高,总觉得这类题材的书籍难逃窠臼。然而,它却以一种近乎挑衅的姿态,打破了我的所有预设。这本书最令人拍案叫绝之处,在于它对“叙事者可靠性”的颠覆。我们跟随主角的视角一路探索,深信不疑,但直到最后几章,作者才不动声色地将地基抽走,让你猛然意识到,你所相信的一切,可能都只是别人精心编织的幻象。这种结构上的精妙设计,使得重读一遍的价值极高,因为第二次阅读时,你会发现大量之前被忽略的、看似无关紧要的伏笔,它们散落在字里行间,低调地宣告着真相的到来。此外,配角的塑造也堪称一绝,没有一个是扁平化的工具人,即便是那个看似只是推动情节的次要角色,其背后的故事和挣扎也足以支撑起一部独立的小说。这种全景式的叙事手法,让整个故事的密度达到了饱和状态,信息量巨大,值得读者拿出笔来,绘制人物关系图和时间线。
评分淡淡的冷靜的敘述,原諒我沒耐心提早揭開謎底,意料之中。偵探題材容易寫濫,攤手。
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