Monday, December 11 Book & Movie

12:00 - Mind's Eye by Hakan Nesser

The highly anticipated first novel in the Inspector Van Veeteren series in now available in English. At last, American readers will be able to enjoy, from its very beginnings, this addictive series by one of Europe’s most beloved and best-selling crime writers.
Chief Inspector Van Veeteren knew that murder cases were never as open-and-shut as this one: Janek Mitter woke one morning with a brutal hangover and discovered his wife of three months lying facedown in the bathtub, dead. With only the flimsiest excuse as his defense, he is found guilty of a drunken crime of passion and imprisoned in a mental institution.
But Van Veeteren’s suspicions about the identity of the killer are borne out when Mitter also becomes a murder victim. Now the chief inspector launches a full-scale investigation of the two slayings. But it may only be the unspoken secrets of the dead–revealed in a mysterious letter that Mitter wrote shortly before his death–that will finally allow Van Veeteren to unmask the killer and expose the shocking root of this sordid violence.

2:00 - Man from Reno

A small-town California sheriff searches for the man he ran down on a foggy night but who later vanished from the hospital. Meanwhile, a Japanese mystery novelist seeking solitude in San Francisco investigates the sudden departure of a lover who disappeared without a trace. Sheriff Paul Del Moral (Pepe Serna) was making his way home on a dreary night when he accidentally struck a solitary Japanese man walking down the road. Later, as the investigation into the crash gets underway, the mysterious victim is nowhere to be found. Meanwhile, just a few miles away in San Francisco, Japanese mystery author Aki Akahor (Ayako Fujitani) takes a break from the publicity tour for her latest novel, and falls into an affair with an enigmatic Japanese traveler she meets in her hotel. Then, as quickly as he appeared, he is gone. Could these two incidents somehow be connected?