The Inspector and Silence: An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery Review

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The Inspector and Silence: An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery ReviewIn Håkan Nesser's "The Inspector and Silence," Chief Inspector Van Veeteren (VV) is thinking seriously about calling it quits after approximately thirty-five years in the Swedish police force. He is fed up with "rooting around in the rubbish heaps of his environment." A ridge of high pressure has brought extraordinarily hot weather. VV's irritable and sweat-drenched subordinates banter, curse, and insult one another as a way of blowing off steam. Although he is planning to take a vacation in Crete, a new and disturbing case comes along that calls for VV's unique blend of experience, insight, and intuition.
Van Veetern leaves Maardam and travels to Sorbinowo to help Acting Chief of Police Merwin Kluuge look into the disappearance of a thirteen-year-old girl from a camp run by Oscar Yellinek, the founder of the Pure Life "free-church community." This sect is devoted to cleansing souls and achieving enlightenment through "prayers, self-denial, [and] purity." Since Yellinek, his female assistants, and the adolescent girls staying at the camp are highly secretive, the investigation gets off to a rocky start. VV, who usually chews toothpicks to avoid cigarettes, reverts to his bad old ways. He smokes, drinks too much, and becomes more and more frustrated by his lack of progress.
This is an off-beat, bitterly humorous, and character-driven mystery. When dead bodies start to turn up and the press finds out, the pressure mounts to find the perpetrator. "The Inspector and Silence" is an engrossing police procedural about the high price of keeping quiet when it is one's moral duty to speak out. It is also a showcase for police officers, both male and female, who must deal with obstruction of justice, secrets, lies, and unspeakable violence in the course of their work. Yet, they continue to do their jobs in spite of the toll that it takes on their emotional health. Best of all, we get to spend time with the wonderfully colorful, cynical, and philosophical Van Veeteren. Although he is unlucky in love and cantankerous, VV has an incisive intellect that misses very little. He can solve a murder based on stray remarks, body language, and subtle clues. If this is indeed VV's last case, he has certainly earned the right to a peaceful retirement.
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