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2000s: The fictional town of Maardam has secrets galore…
The G File (Van Veeteren 10)
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Maardam police, led by Chief Inspector Van Veeteren, investigate the case. Van Veeteren has encountered Jaan ‘G’ Hennan before and knows only too well the man’s dark capabilities. As more information emerges about G’s shadowy past, the Chief Inspector becomes more desperate than ever to convict him. But G has a solid alibi – and no one else can be found in relation to the crime.
2002. Fifteen years have passed and the G File remains the one case former Chief Inspector Van Veeteren has never been able to solve. But when Verlangan’s daughter reports the private detective missing, Van Veeteren returns to Maardam CID once more. For all Verlangan left behind was a cryptic note; and a telephone message in which he claimed to have finally discovered the proof of G’s murderous past .
Locations
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Travel BookTrail style to fictional Maardam
The location for the Van Veeteren series of novels is the fictional town of Maardam. It’s never really established where it is although there are plenty of clues to suggest it’s somewhere in the Netherlands due to the names of the characters and towns nearby.
The fictional town has some 300,000 people living in it.
As for setting, landscape and the more liberal Nordic Noir attitudes, there is a keen sense of Scandinavia and Sweden throughout the novels. The author now lives in New York but was born in Kulma in Sweden so this is a good place to go to see if you can see any clues which might have made up the town of Maarsdam.
Booktrail Boarding Pass: The G File (Van Veeteren 10)
Destination : “Maardam”, Netherlands, Sweden Author/Guide: Håkan Nesser Departure Time: 1987, 2002
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