-did there come a point, he had started to wonder, beyond which we no longer look forward to something coming, but only to getting away from what has passed?

Borkmann’s Point, second in the DCI Van Veeteren series by veteran Swedish author, Håkan Nesser is quintessential Nordic Noir. Brooding, slightly depressive characters, atmospheric, melancholy and procedural - all the elements of the genre, set in a fictitious Northern European country resembling something of Germany or the Netherlands perhaps.

Van Veeteren is a bit of a cantankerous cop, renown for his out of the box capacity to solve crimes and Borkmann’s Point is no exception. A serial killer is on the loose and there seems to be no motive, no link between victims and no clues to go by.

I found this one to be quite interesting in that we hear the voice of a number of characters throughout the book. Van Veeteren does in some ways seem to be a character on par with some of the others... Münster, for example. I quite liked that, however, the novel did seem to lose its centre albeit slightly, by the multi focus.

All in all an excellent second novel in the series, not quite as impactful as the first but nevertheless, Nesser is a must read author for me. 4 stars.