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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.

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.

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.

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.

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....

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....

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.

Als Janek Mitter eines Morgens mit einem entsetzlichen Kater aufwacht, liegt seine Frau Eva ermordet in der Badewanne. Er ist sich sicher, dass er nicht der Mörder ist, aber beweisen kann er es nicht. Am Vorabend hatte er mächtig gezecht, und nun fehlen ihm einige Stunden in der Erinnerung...

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. 

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.

Sweden 2012. When Inspector Gunnar Barbarotti returns to work after a terrible personal tragedy, his boss asks him to investigate a cold case, hoping to ease him back gently into his police duties. Five years previously a shy electrician, Arnold Morinder, disappeared from the face of the earth, the only clue his blue moped abandoned in a nearby swamp. At the time his partner, Ellen Bjarnebo, claimed that Arnold had probably travelled to Norway never to return. But Ellen is one of Sweden’s most notorious killers.

Dezember in Kymlinge. Familie Hermansson hat sich versammelt, um zwei Geburtstage zu feiern: den 65. des gerade pensionierten Vaters Karl-Erik und den 40. der ältesten Tochter Ebba.

Verschwundene Menschen und ein ungelöster Mord - Van Veeterens achter Fall. Polizeiinspektorin Ewa Morenos Urlaub verläuft anders als gedacht: Mikaela Lijphart und ihr Vater sind auf mysteriöse Weise wie vom Erdboden verschluckt. Und was geschah mit dem Toten, der am Strand gefunden wurde? Hat Mikaelas Vater, der als Mörder sechzehn Jahre in der Psychiatrie verbracht hat, etwas damit zu tun?

Drei Paare aus Uppsala planen eine Reise ans Schwarze Meer. Aber was lustig beginnt, endet im Desaster...

Herr Roos macht keinen Menschen glücklich, und kein Mensch macht ihn glücklich. Seine Arbeit gefällt ihm nicht, seine Familie mag er nicht, er hat so gut wie keine Freunde...

For Waldemar Leverkuhn, a retiree living with his wife in a small unit in an unassuming block of apartments, the day couldn't begin more auspiciously. He, along with three friends, have won the lottery. It's a modest but healthy sum of money and the old men toast to their good luck with a celebratory dinner. The day ends, however, with Leverkuhn drunk, belligerent, and eventually dead in his bed, stabbed 28 times in the chest. After a cursory investigation, Leverkuhn's quiet, weary wife incredibly confesses to murder.

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.

Endlose Wälder, rot gestrichene Holzhäuser und verschwiegene Fjordlandschaften - dass Dänemark, Schweden und Norwegen auch ganz anderes zu bieten haben, zeigen die erfolgreichen Krimiautoren, die seit einigen Jahren die deutschen Bestsellerlisten stürmen...

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.

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?