The Return

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Translation copyright © 2007 by Laurie Thompson

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published in Sweden as Återkomsten by Albert Bonniers Forlag AB, Stockholm, in 1995. Copyright © 1995 by Håkan Nesser.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Nesser, Håkan, [date]

[Återkomsten. English]

The return : an Inspector Van Veeteren mystery / Håkan Nesser ; translated from the Swedish by Laurie Thompson.

p. cm.

I. Thompson, Laurie, 1938– II. Title.

PT9876.24.E76A8413 2007

839.73'74—dc22 2006024011

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