Brilliant. Nesser is really good.
This story features Eva Moreno, his only female detective, a sexier version of Siobhan Clarke in Rebus, on a busman’s holiday.
Thematically there is some similarity to 'The Unlucky Lottery' in that, in both books, a character takes on – in this case the assumed – guilt of another and confesses to a crime they didn’t commit.
These are excellent books and possibly better than Mankel, whose Wallander is more introspective certainly than Van Veeteren. His character hangs over these [later] books like a deus ex-machina in the positive sense of that phrase.
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