The Root of Evil din Håkan Nesser
Ausgezeichnet mit dem Schwedischen Krimipreis 2007

Categorie: Bücher
Pagini / Format: 608 S
Anul apariţiei: 2019
Editura: Macmillan Publishers InternationalPan
Limba: Englisch
ISBN: 9781509809394
ediţie / volum: Main Market Ed.

The godfather of Swedish crime MetroThe second installment in Håkan Nesser's Inspector Barbarotti quintet: a series of letters detailing future murders arrives on Inspector Barbarotti's very own doorstep . . .

Håkan Nesser,'the Godfather of Swedish Crime'(Metro),is back with the second installment in the Inspector Barbarotti series,The Root of Evil.<br><br>*Shortlisted for the Crime Writers'Association's International Dagger*<br><br>July 2007. A letter arrives on Inspector Barbarotti's doorstep detailing a murder that is about to take place in his quiet Swedish town. By the time the police track down the subject of the letter, he is already dead.<br><br>So when a second letter arrives, then a third, and a fourth, it's a game of cat and mouse to stop the killer before he can make good on all of his promises.<br><br>Meanwhile, an anonymous diary is unearthed depicting the incidents of a two week holiday in France five years earlier, and it doesn't take Barbarotti long to realize the people populating the diary are the ones whose lives are now in the balance . . .<br><br>Continue the thrilling investigative series withThe Secret Life of Mr Roos.<br><br>'One of the best of the Nordic Noir writers'-Guardian

1GBNesser, Håkan

Håkan Nesser is one of Sweden's most popular crime writers, receiving numerous awards for his novels featuring Inspector Van Veeteren, including the European Crime Fiction Star Award (Ripper Award) 2010/11, the Swedish Crime Writers'Academy Prize (three times) and Scandinavia's Glass Key Award. The Van Veeteren series is published in over twenty-five countries and has sold over ten million copies worldwide. Håkan Nesser lives in Gotland with his wife and spends part of each year in the UK.<br><br>In addition to the popular Van Veeteren series, his other books include the psychological thrillerThe Living and the Dead in Winsfordand The Barbarotti series.

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