After Stieg Larsson’s Lisbeth Salander, Hakan Nesser’s Van Veetaran takes center stage
Lisbeth Salander could well be poster girl of Swedish crime fiction. The social punk, described as “mentally incompetent” by the Swedish government, is an unlikely heroine. She’s a loner, she has a dragon tattoo on her neck, a photographic memory and rides a Kawasaki.