The Root of Evil
Håkan Nesser
A friendly vacation with dramatic consequencesOne summer in the early 2000s, a handful of Swedish tourists spend a couple of weeks together in Finistère, Brittany. Two couples and two singletons – in all, six newfound friends. They spend their days s…
The Darkest Day
Håkan Nesser
When family secrets are revealedIt is December in Kymlinge and the Hermansson family gather to celebrate a 105th birthday party – dad Karl-Erik is turning 65, his eldest daughter Ebba, 40. But nothing goes according to plan. On the night before the b…
From Doctor Klimke’s Horizon
Håkan Nesser
In From Doctor Klimke’s Horizon we meet the language teacher who receives a hand written message from a woman who has been dead for thirty years, the author who travels to the city of death and sighs and is drawn into the suicide pact of a pair of lo…
The Girl with the Cornflowers
Karin Wahlberg
The Shadows and the Rain
Håkan Nesser
Viktor Vinblad was hard to understand. He sang the Psalms back to front and his parents killed each other. At fifteen years of age he was on the way to solving Fermat’s riddle but fell out of the window on the second floor at school. He did not die b…
A Frozen Life
Karin Wahlberg
THE G FILE
Håkan Nesser
”G. This was about case G., nothing else, he decided. No woolly personal motives, no euphemisms, just the same old question that has haunted him for fifteen years. Who killed Barbara Clarissa Hennan? Or rather: how on earth did G go about killing her…
The Unlucky Lottery
Håkan Nesser
Four friends have won the lottery. But someone sticks a knife in one of them, twenty or thirty times, before they have had time to spend the money.Since Superintendent Van Veeteren is on leave, to devote his time to his beloved second-hand books, it…
