A winner of three Swedish Crime Writers' Academy Best Novel Prizes and the Crime Writers of Scandinavia's prestigious Glass Key Award, H?kan Nesser "has a penetrating eye for the skull beneath the skin" (NYTBR). We are pleased to offer these early mysteries in Nesser's classic Inspector Van Veeteren series.

Van Veeteren and his associates are left bewildered by the curious murder of a man shot twice in the heart and twice below the belt. The only suspicious activity his wife can report is a series of peculiar phone calls. Repeatedly the telephone would ring, offering no answer but an obscure pop song from the 1960s. As identical murders occur, Van Veeteren pursues his subject across the country, but in this fourth outing (after The Return), he will be met with outrageous leads and fruitless tips.