The last of the Nesser’s that I had taken on holiday.
This one features Van Veetern pre-retirement, although called from holiday to investigate an axe murderer. Usual Nesser with most of the plot spent searching for a motive, but Borkmann’s point is that in a police investigation you can reach a point where you have uncovered everything there is to find and the answer must be staring you in the face. Which it is, and it feels satisfyingly ‘obvious’ after van Veteran has worked it out.
Clever, but the middle passages (again) are a bit turgid. He needs to develop his minor characters’ characters more for this to work.
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