Håkan Nesser

Un autor con más de 20 millones de lectores en todo el mundo. El primer caso del inspector Gunnar Barbarotti.Unos días antes de Navidad, la familia Hermansson al completo se reúne para celebrar los sesenta y cinco años de Karl-Erik, un padre encomiable y maestro jubilado, y los cuarenta de Ebba, su hija favorita. Unas horas despues, se producen dos desapariciones inexplicables: primero, Robert, la oveja negra de la familia; al dia siguiente Henrik, el hijo mayor de Ebba, quien desaparece en medio de la noche sin dejar rastro. Gunnar Barbarotti, un inspector de origen italo-sueco que trabaja en la policia de Kymlinge y que se preparaba para la odiosa perspectiva de una Navidad con su exmujer y sus ex suegros, se hara cargo del caso. Las investigaciones, sin embargo, parecen no avanzar. ¿Existe una conexion entre los dos casos? Obsesionado con encontrar la verdad, hara falta tiempo, perseverancia y la ayuda del destino para que las investigaciones tomen una direccion precisa y de con el culpable antes de que el caso quede enterrado por el olvido.

Un autor con más de 20 millones de lectores en todo el mundo.El primer caso del inspector Gunnar Barbarotti. Unos días antes de Navidad, la familia Hermansson se reúne para celebrar los sesenta y cin

Unos días antes de Navidad, la familia Hermansson al completo se reúne para celebrar los sesenta y cinco años de Karl-Erik, un padre encomiable y maestro jubilado, y los cuarenta de Ebba, su hija favorita. Unas horas despues, se producen dos desapariciones inexplicables: primero, Robert, la oveja negra de la familia; al dia siguiente Henrik, el hijo mayor de Ebba, quien desaparece en medio de la noche sin dejar rastro. Gunnar Barbarotti, un inspector de origen italo-sueco que trabaja en la policia de Kymlinge y que se preparaba para la odiosa perspectiva de una Navidad con su exmujer y sus ex suegros, se hara cargo del caso. Las investigaciones, sin embargo, parecen no avanzar. ¿Existe una conexion entre los dos casos? Obsesionado con encontrar la verdad, hara falta tiempo, perseverancia y la ayuda del destino para que las investigaciones tomen una direccion precisa y de con el culpable antes de que el caso quede enterrado por el olvido.

Deux appels anonymes signalent la disparition d''une adolescente séjournant dans un camp de vacances. Bientôt, la police trouve un premier cadavre. Van Veeteren, désigné pour mener l''enquête, découv

Four friends celebrate winning the lottery. Just hours later, one of them - Waldemar Leverkuhn - is found in his home, stabbed to death. With Chief Inspector Van Veeteren on sabbatical, working in a second hand bookshop, the case is assigned to Inspector Münster. But when another member of the lottery group disappears, as well as Leverkuhn's neighbour, Münster appeals to Van Veeteren for assistance. Soon Münster will find himself interviewing the Leverkuhn family, including the eldest - Irene - a resident of a psychiatric clinic. And as he delves deeper into the family's history, he will discover dark secrets and startling twists, which not only threaten the clarity of the case - but also his life . . .

Una exploración tensa y psicológica de la traición y la venganza, merecidamente ganador del premio Rosenkranzt Award al mejor thriller del año.

There is nobody in the world who knows that we are here ...A woman arrives in the village of Winsford on Exmoor. She has travelled a long way and chosen her secluded cottage carefully. Her sole intention is to outlive her beloved dog Castor. And to survive the torrent of memories that threaten to overwhelm her. Weeks before, Maria and her husband Martin fled Stockholm under a cloud. The couple were bound for Morocco, where Martin planned to write an explosive novel; one that would reveal the truth behind dark events within his commune of writers decades before. But the couple never made it to their destination. As Maria settles into her lonely new life, walking the wild, desolate moors, it becomes clear that Winsford isn't quite the sanctuary she thought it would be. While the long, dark evenings close in and the weather worsens, strange things begin to happen around her. But what terrible secrets is Maria guarding? And who is trying to find her? A haunting, masterly unravelling of a dreadful crime, in The Living and the Dead in Winsford Hakan Nesser, the bestselling, award-winning author of the Van Veeteren series, tightens the tension like a noose . .

O passado está prestes a voltar para acertar as contas. Volume 1 da série Intrigo. David Moerk está ouvindo um concerto para violino pelo rádio quando uma tosse vinda da plateia o deixa atônito. Ele

Einen Nobelpreis wird er wohl nicht bekommen. Arne Murberg ist von schlichterem Gemüt. Nach einem Badeunfall in der Kindheit hat er Schwierigkeiten, sich zu konzentrieren und komplexere Zusammenhänge zu erfassen. Aber Arne ist ein warmherziger, liebenswerter Mensch, der sich eine kindlich naive, offene Art bewahrt hat und voll Vertrauen auf das Leben blickt. Als sein Vater ihm auf dem Totenbett offenbart, dass seine Mutter nicht tot ist, wie Arne geglaubt hat, sondern in Berlin lebt, und ihm gleichzeitig den Auftrag gibt, sie dort aufzusuchen und ihr ein verschlossenes Kästchen zu übergeben, beginnt für ihn ein wundersames Abenteuer.

In this gripping novel from an internationally acclaimed author, a detective is summoned to a quiet north European town by the sea to track down the link between a series of murders.

Van Veeteren Mysteries Book 10 by Hakan Nesser. The final stunning mystery in the Swedish star's landmark Inspector Van Veeteren series: can Van Veeteren ever hope to find the solution to the case that has evaded him all these years - The G File? 1987. Maarten Verlangan, a former cop turned private detective is hired by a woman to follow her husband. The request is hardly unusual; but then two events occur that turn everything on its head. First, Verlangan realises that Barbara's husband Jaan 'G' Hennan is a man he helped put in prison many years before; and then, a few days later, Barbara is found dead at the bottom of an empty swimming pool...Maardam police, led by Chief Inspector Van Veeteren, investigate the case. Like Verlangan, Van Veeteren has encountered Jaan 'G' Hennan before and knows only too well the man's dark capabilities. When it is then discovered that G is due to receive a huge insurance pay-out following his wife's 'accidental' death - and further information about his shadowy past comes to light - Van Veeteren becomes more desperate than ever to convict him. But Verlangan himself witnessed G sitting in a restaurant at the time of Barbara's fatal plummet - 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...A dark, ambitious and hugely gripping crime thriller, The G File is the stunning final instalment in the landmark Van Veeteren series.

Wird Barbarotti aufs Abstellgleis befordert Nach einem personlichen Schicksalsschlag soll er sich mit dem Fall eines funf Jahre zuvor spurlos verschwundenen Elektrikers beschaftigen. Nicht nur Kollegin Backman fragt sich, ob es sich hierbei nicht nur um eine Form von Beschaftigungstherapie fur einen trauernden und labilen Kollegen handelt. Und es sieht auch ganz so aus, als sei Barbarotti nun zum Spezialisten fur sogenannte kalte Falle geworden, deren tatsachliche Losung zweifelhaft ist. Tatsachlich lebte besagter Elektriker zum Zeitpunkt seines Verschwindens mit einer Frau zusammen, die bereits einmal einen Mord begangen und dafur elf Jahre im Gefangnis gesessen hatte. Nur beweisen konnte man ihr in diesem Fall nichts: denn ohne Leiche, keine Morderin. Doch Gunnar Barbarotti tut das, was er am besten kann: Er ermittelt. Mosaiksteinchen um Mosaiksteinchen setzt er zusammen, und als er schlielich begreift, was gespielt wird, hat das weitreichende Konsequenzen ...

Could this be Van Veeteren''s darkest case yet?Desperately lonely, sixteen-year-old Monica Kammerle has little idea of what she is getting herself into when she begins an affair with her mothers latest partner; the sophisticated Benjamin Kerran . . .Months later, when a womans strangled body is found, the Maardam police must discover who has committed this terrible crime. It isnt long before they realize the perpetrator may have killed before and is likely to do so again.Meanwhile former Chief Inspector Van Veeteren finds himself drawn into the mystery when a priest, who has learned dreadful secrets, appeals to him for help. But when the priest falls beneath the wheels of a train and the police find more dead-ends than leads, it seems Van Veeteren will have to come up with a new approach to unearth this dark serial killer. Before he chooses his next victim . . .

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Quelques jours avant Noël, deux membres de la famille Hermansson manquent à l'appel. Robert, quarantenaire dépressif, est le premier à se volatiliser. Il était la risée du pays tout entier après avoi

Ein seltsames Testament und ein längst gesühntes Verbrechen: Jahrelang saß der 54-jährige Bibliotheksangestellte Maertens wegen Mordes an seinem Professor im Gefängnis. Inzwischen wieder in Freiheit, lebt er völlig zurückgezogen. Doch plötzlich gerät sein sorgsam ausgetüfteltes Dasein aus dem Gleichgewicht: Sein einstmals bester Freund Tomas ist gestorben und hat ihm ein ungewöhnliches Erbe hinterlassen. Als Maertens es antritt, wird ihm allmählich klar, dass sein Freund ihn vor Jahren brutal hintergangen hat01Håkan Nesser, geboren 1950, ist einer der interessantesten und aufregendsten Kriminalautoren Schwedens. Dem deutschen Publikum ist er vor allem durch seine Reihe um Kommissar Van Veeteren bekannt, die bereits Millionen Fans hat. Für seine Kriminalromane um Inspektor Van Veeteren erhielt er zahlreiche Auszeichnungen, sie sind in mehrere Sprachen übersetzt und wurden erfolgreich verfilmt. Hakan Nesser lebt in New York.01Christel Hildebrandt, geboren 1952 in Lauenburg, studierte Germanistik, Soziologie und Literaturwissenschaft und wandte sich nach der Promotion der skandinavischen Literatur zu. Seit 1988 arbeitet sie als freie literarische Übersetzerin aus den Sprachen Norwegisch, Dänisch und Schwedisch. Sie erhielt den Paul-Celan-Preis nominiert wurde. Daneben reicht die Palette ihrer Übersetzungen von Henrik Ibsen bis zu Håkan Nesser, Jógvan Isaksen und Hanne Marie Svendsen. Mit ihrem Mann, drei Töchtern und einer Katze lebt Christel Hildebrandt in Hamburg.

The third compelling mystery in the Inspector Van Veeteren series 'Don't you see,' he'd have liked to ask her, 'don't you see, that if only you'd told me everything that first time we could have saved a life? Possibly two . . .' Janek Mitter stumbles into his bathroom one morning after a night of heavy drinking, to find his beautiful young wife, Eva, floating dead in the bath. She has been brutally murdered. Yet even during his trial Mitter cannot summon a single memory of attacking Eva, nor a clue as to who could have killed her if he had not. Only once he has been convicted and locked away in an asylum for the criminally insane does he have a snatch of insight - but is it too late? Drawing a blank after exhaustive interviews, Chief Inspector Van Veeteren remains convinced that something, or someone, in the dead woman's life has caused these tragic events. But the reasons for her speedy remarriage have died with her. And as he delves even deeper, Van Veeteren realizes that the past never stops haunting the present . . .

Van Veeteren thought back to what his friend Mahler had said the previous evening: Doing something at the right time is more important than what you actually do...An unmissable hospital appointment is looming for Inspector Van Veeteren when a corpse is found rolled in a rotting carpet by a young child playing in a local beauty spot. Missing head and limbs, the torso is too badly decomposed for forensic identification - bar one crucial detail...Circumstantial evidence soon points to a local man, a double murderer who disappeared 9 months before, shortly after being released on parole; a local hero turned monster after being convicted of killing two women over a span of three decades. Recuperating after an operation, Van Veeteren is nevertheless directing investigations from his hospital bed, for he is convinced that only the innocence of this new victim can be the motive for his murder. But the two women have been dead for long enough for any evidence to have died with them...And is he - a little like Inspector Morse can be on occasion - simply on the wrong track completely?