The Mind's Eye - Hakan Nesser

The mind’s eye is a mystery novel that movingly captures the duality of power and frailty. Hakan Nesser, a three-time winner of the Best Swedish Crime Novel Award, created a character that can pierce the reader’s mind with his strength, spleen and suffering.

Janek Mitter wakes up one morning with a severe loss of memory. A woman, probably his wife, is found drowned in their bathroom.

Janek struggles in his journey into the darkness but gradually he acts as if he had committed the murder.  After all, who could believe his convenient loss of memory?

Yet, some light is cast on the shady world of the novel. Chief Inspector Van Veeteren manages to unravel the intricate layers of the story and its end might surprise even the most experienced crime novel reader.

An intelligent plot, good characters, surprises and twists, a clear writing style and a drop of lyricism- elements of a successful crime novel.

Here are some lines that may arouse your interest:

“There are more connections in the world than there are particles in the universe... the hard bit is finding the right one”

“You will find out who you are when the difficult moment comes”

“We are closer to the end of the world than to that minute that has just passed by, because that is lost forever”

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