Mind's eye

Hakan has produced a pretty good police procedural. The Detective Chief Inspector, Van Veeteren, is reasonably well developed as a character. VV does good work as an investigator (although we are kept in the dark near the end where he figures out who the murderer is) and the labor described in the investigations is nearly overwhelming (the description itself is reasonably brief, thank goodness). Van Veeteren has access to a good crew and they are almost without blemish whereas in other police procedurals there is friction and failing in the subordinates. Maybe Hakan has an idealised view of detective work.
Swedish place names seem to have too many As in them and I wonder how the natives view this, particularly if they have had exposure to place names in other countries.