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It begins in 1969. Six young people arrive in Uppsala. Different circumstances push the three young couples together, and, over the course of a few years, they become friends. But a summer trip through Eastern Europe changes everything, and, when their time at Uppsala University is over, it also signals the end of something else. Years later, a lecturer at Lund University is found dead at the bottom of a cliff in the woods close to Kymlinge. And chillingly, it is the very same spot where one of the Uppsala students died 35 years before. 

Sein persönlichster Fall. Inspektor Barbarotti auf dem Abstellgleis? Als er nach einem persönlichen Schicksalsschlag zum ersten Mal wieder im Dienst erscheint, soll er zwei ungeklärte Mordfälle wieder aufnehmen. In deren Zentrum steht die mysteriöse Ellen Bjarnebo: die hat nicht nur ihren ersten Mann grausam ermordet, sondern wahrscheinlich auch ihren zweiten - der ist nämlich seit Jahren spurlos verschwunden. Doch ohne Leiche keine Mörderin.

An ex-con is brutally murdered with an ax in Kaalbringen. Then the body of a wealthy real estate mogul is found, also the victim of a violent attack. There appears to be a serial killer on the loose, and Chief Inspector Van Veeteren is called in to help the local police. As details surrounding the grisly murders are collected, Van Veeteren finds little to go on. But then there's another murder, and shortly thereafter one of Van Veeteren's colleagues, a promising female detective, goes missing.

After hearing her mother’s deathbed confession and following the dreary funeral, Maria Adler realizes she has no other option but to seize upon her mother’s imperative to do something. Dissolving the life she loathes, Maria changes her appearance and disappears. When she emerges, revenge is her sole occupation. Inspector Van Veeteren and his associates are left bewildered by the curious murder of a man shot twice in the heart and twice below the belt. He was a quiet, utterly dull man, and the only suspicious activity his surviving wife can recall is a series of peculiar phone calls.

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.

A secretive and dubious religious sect comes under investigation as one of their young members, a girl on the cusp of puberty, is found dead in the forest, brutally raped and strangled. Adopting to remain silent over the incident rather than defend themselves, the members of The Pure Life - led by their intelligent but perturbing messiah figure, Oscar Yellineck - simultaneously anger and mystify Van Veeteren and the other detectives on the case.

Håkan Nessers neuer Krimi um Intrigen und Mord im schwedischen Literaturbetrieb. Gibt es den perfekten Mord? Die Leser des erfolgreichen Autors Franz J. Lunde sind sich sicher: Wer einen Mord so schildert, muss ihn selbst begangen haben. Lunde, der an einem Manuskript mit dem Titel "Letzte Tage und Tod eines Schriftstellers" arbeitet, fühlt sich von seinem Publikum bedroht. Nach einer Lesung in Kymlinge ist er plötzlich spurlos verschwunden. Kurze Zeit später wird die bekannte Lyrikerin Maria Green vermisst. Auch sie hinterlässt ein rätselhaftes Schriftfragment.

Two men are brutally murdered with an axe in the quiet coastal town of Kaalbringen, and Chief Inspector Van Veeteren, bored on holiday nearby, is summoned to assist the local authorities. The local police chief, just days away from retirement, is determined to wrap things up before he goes. But there is no clear link between the victims. Then one of Van Veeteren's colleagues, a brilliant young female detective, goes missing - perhaps she has reached Borkmann's Point before anyone else....

Kommissar Van Veeteren hat alles satt: die Polizeiarbeit, seine Exfrau und Serienmörder sowieso. Eigentlich möchte er am liebsten Urlaub machen, doch da kommt ein Hilferuf von einem benachbarten Polizeirevier, den er nicht ignorieren kann, weil der dortige Polizeichef ihm einmal das Leben gerettet hat.

It starts with a drunk man killing a boy as he hits him with his car. Thinking no one has seen him, he feels he's off the hook. Until he receives a message telling him that the sender knows what he's done, and unless he pays him a ransom, to be left in a bag at a secluded men's room, he'll squeal. The killer does as instructed, but as he sees a young man leave with said bag, he then kills the young man.

Vier Rentner feiern in einer Kneipe ihren Lottogewinn. Wenige Stunden später ist einer von ihnen tot - durch zahlreiche Messerstiche in seiner eigenen Wohnung ermordet. Kommissar Münster braucht die Hilfe seines Kollegen Van Veeteren...

While on a field trip through the woods on the outskirts of Behren, a young girl stumbles upon a decomposing body wrapped in a carpet and lying in a ditch. The body has no hands, feet, or head, but this was not the work of wild animals. A brutal killer is on the loose, but who is the victim? From the hospital bed where he is recovering from surgery, Chief Inspector Van Veeteren begins to piece together the fragmentary clues that involve a nun who hides a secret, a crippled woman, the murders of two other women, and a missing former track star who served two sentences for murder....

Una famiglia modello, gli Hermansson. O quasi. Pochi giorni prima di Natale sono riuniti per festeggiare un centocinquesimo compleanno: i sessantacinque anni di Karl-Erik, padre encomiabile e insegnante in pensione, e i quaranta di Ebba, la sua figlia prediletta. È l'occasione per ritrovare proprio tutti, perfino Robert, la "pecora nera" della famiglia: scrittore mancato (il suo romanzo, L'uomo senza un cane, è da dieci anni in attesa di pubblicazione), è assurto agli onori delle cronache per aver partecipato a un reality show di pessimo gusto, creando non poco imbarazzo ai suoi.

It's December in the quiet Swedish town of Kymlinge, and the Hermansson family are gathering to celebrate father Karl-Erik and eldest daughter Ebba's joint landmark birthdays. But beneath the guise of happy festivities, tensions are running high, and it's not long before the night takes a dark and unexpected turn....

Håkan Nessers große Kino-Trilogie. "In Liebe Agnes": Agnes und Henny sind alte Schulfreundinnen, die sich seit Jahrzehnten nicht mehr gesehen haben. Auf der Beerdigung von Agnes' Mann treffen sie sich wieder. Zögerlich beginnen sie sich erneut anzunähern, schreiben sich Briefe, vertrauen sich Geheimnisse an. Doch eine von beiden spielt falsch... "Die Wildorchidee aus Samaria": Ein Sprachlehrer in besten Verhälntissen erhält die handgeschriebene Notiz einer Frau, die eigentlich seit dreißig Jahren tot ist. Darin bittet sie ihn, dorthin zurückzukommen, wo alles begann - in seine alte Heimatstadt.

Spätestens seit Stieg Larssons Millennium-Trilogie weiß jeder: Wer Spannung liebt, kommt an Krimis aus dem hohen Norden nicht vorbei. Sie spielen mit dem Kontrast zwischen der Idylle des Landes und grausamen Verbrechen, der Ruhe des nordischen Lebens und dem gewaltsamen Tod. In dieser einzigartigen Sammlung hat John-Henri Holmberg, einer der besten Kenner der skandinavischen Kriminalliteratur, Erzählungen der bedeutendsten und beliebtesten schwedischen Spannungsautoren zusammengefasst.

Gegen Inspektor Barbarotti wird in Stockholm polizeilich ermittelt. Er und seine Kollegin Eva Backman gerieten in eine Situation, die für einen Jugendlichen tödlich endete. Um Abstand von den Ereignissen zu bekommen, beschließen Barbarotti und Backman, sich in die herbstliche Abgeschiedenheit Gotlands zurückzuziehen. Doch auch dort findet Barbarotti nicht die ersehnte Ruhe, denn er glaubt in einem Fahrradfahrer jenen unglückseligen Busfahrer zu erkennen, der für den Tod einer Schulklasse verantwortlich war, und vor sechs Jahren spurlos von einer Fähre verschwand.

In the dead of night, in the pouring rain, a drunk driver smashes his car into a young man. He abandons the body at the side of the road, but the incident will set in motion a chain of events which will change his life forever. Soon Chief Inspector Van Veeteren, now retired from the Maardam police force, will face his greatest trial yet as someone close to him is, inexplicably, murdered.

Il commissario Van Veeteren, ispettore capo della polizia di Maardam, è finalmente a riposo e non ha intenzione di tornare a fare il detective: il nuovo lavoro alla libreria antiquaria Krantze e la relazione con Ulrike sono la sua occupazione a tempo pieno. Non può però sottrarsi alla richiesta di aiuto del sovrintendente Münster, che per anni è stato il suo fido braccio destro. Lui e i suoi colleghi sono impantanati in un caso che li sta mettendo in seria difficoltà: Waldemar Leverkuhn, pensionato e dalla vita in apparenza irreprensibile, una notte viene trovato accoltellato nel suo letto.

Gegen Inspektor Barbarotti wird in Stockholm polizeilich ermittelt. Er und seine Kollegin Eva Backman gerieten in eine Situation, die für einen Jugendlichen tödlich endete. Um Abstand von den Ereignissen zu bekommen, beschließen Barbarotti und Backman, sich in die herbstliche Abgeschiedenheit Gotlands zurückzuziehen. Doch auch dort findet Barbarotti nicht die ersehnte Ruhe, denn er glaubt in einem Fahrradfahrer jenen unglückseligen Busfahrer zu erkennen, der für den Tod einer Schulklasse verantwortlich war, und vor sechs Jahren spurlos von einer Fähre verschwand.