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A review by dennisfischman
Mind's Eye by Håkan Nesser
3.0
This is one of the Scandinavian noir mysteries that I missed along the way, and that's too bad. It's well written, with a great blend of police procedural, psycho killer, and wryly humorous detective with his own philosophy. I don't entirely buy the philosophy, but it makes the character distinctive. I also figured out who the killer must be halfway through the book, but not his motive or his current identity. That was enough to intrigue me.
The reason I don't rate it more highly is that the book is terrible with women. The author seems to have a Madonna-Whore complex, like the killer himself. Our hero (whose first name, oddly, we never learn) meets a few women who are intelligent and attractive, and he treats them with respect, but they flit in and out of the plot. I hope book #2 does better than that. Many mysteries did, even in 1993.
The reason I don't rate it more highly is that the book is terrible with women. The author seems to have a Madonna-Whore complex, like the killer himself. Our hero (whose first name, oddly, we never learn) meets a few women who are intelligent and attractive, and he treats them with respect, but they flit in and out of the plot. I hope book #2 does better than that. Many mysteries did, even in 1993.