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Hakan Nesser is one of Sweden's most popular crime writers, receiving numerous awards for his novels featuring Inspector Van Veeteren, including the European Crime Fiction Star Award (Ripper Award) 2010/11, the Swedish Crime Writers Academy Prize (three times) and Scandinavia's Glass Key Award. The Van Veeteren series is published in over 25 countries and has sold over 5 million copies worldwide. Hakan Nesser lives in Uppsala with his wife and two sons, and spends part of each year in the UK. David Timson has made over 1000 broadcasts for BBC Radio Drama. For Naxos AudioBooks he wrote The History of the Theatre, which won an award for most original production from the Spoken Word Publishers Association in 2001. He has also directed four Shakespeare plays for Naxos AudioBooks, including King Richard III (with Kenneth Branagh), which won Best Drama Award from the SWPA in 2001. In 2002 he won the Audio of the Year Award for his reading of A Study in Scarlet.
`The Mind's Eye by Hakan Nesser is a psychological thriller in a class of its own ...This stunning novel by one of Sweden's foremost crime writers might have been written as a script for Alfred Hitchcock.' -- The Sunday Times `Holds the tension right to the end ... Another winner from Scandinavia.' -- The Irish Times 'Hakan Nesser's Chief Inspector van Veeteren has earned his place among the great Swedish detectives ... The courtroom scenes that begin this novel are cracking.' -- The Daily Telegraph
