The fifth and final Inspector Barbarotti novel from bestselling author Håkan Nesser, in which Inspector Barbarotti is given a cold case concerning the infamous Axe Woman of Little Burma.
The fifth and final Inspector Barbarotti novel from bestselling author Håkan Nesser, in which Inspector Barbarotti is given a cold case concerning the infamous Axe Woman . . .
The fifth and final Inspector Barbarotti novel from bestselling author Håkan Nesser, in which Inspector Barbarotti is given a cold case concerning the infamous Axewoman of Little Burma
So the way he'd planned it, one of his millions would stay untouched. It ought to last until he started drawing his pension. At sixty-three or sixty-four, that would be about right. Or maybe sixty-five if the fancy took him, he was feeling so alive at this moment that he could easily reach a hundred.But as for the other million, he was going to splash out. Very quietly, discretion guaranteed.And he knew how he was going to use it . . .'A maste...
At fifty-nine years old, Valdemar Roos is tired of life. Working a job he hates and with a wife he barely talks to, he doesn't have much of a future. Then, one day, a winning lottery ticket gives him an opportunity to start afresh. Without telling a soul, he quits his job and buys a hut in the remote Swedish countryside. Every day he travels down to this man-made oasis, returning each evening to his unsuspecting wife. Life couldn't be better, ...
He took out a folded sheet of paper, opened it and read. GOING TO KILL ERIK BERGMAN. LET’S SEE IF YOU CAN STOP ME. July 2007. A letter arrives on Inspector Barbarotti’s doorstep detailing a murder that is about to take place in his very own town. But by the time the police track down the subject of the letter, he is already dead. So when a second letter arrives, then a third, and a fourth, it’s a game of cat and mouse to find the killer before...
It is interesting, of course, that I had that thought at the restaurant in Bénodet. KILL EVERYBODY AT THIS TABLE AND LEAVE. Even then, right at the start, there was something in me that realized what was going to happen . . .‘A master of suspense’ Sunday Times‘Told with wry humour and compassion, Nesser has four more Barbarotti stories to come – cherish them all’ Daily Mail‘The Godfather of Swedish crime’ Metro
It is interesting, of course, that I had that thought at the restaurant in Bénodet. KILL EVERYBODY AT THIS TABLE AND LEAVE. Even then, right at the start, there was something in me that realized what was going to happen . . . July 2007. A letter arrives on Inspector Barbarotti’s doorstep detailing a murder that is about to take place in his own quiet Swedish town of Kymlinge. By the time the police track down the subject of the letter, he is a...
Could it actually be pure coincidence for two people to disappear from the same family at the same address in the space of twenty-four hours? And for the one to have absolutely nothing to do with the other?It's December in the quiet Swedish town of Kymlinge, and the Hermansson family have gathered for a big birthday celebration. But beneath the guise of happy festivities, tensions are running high, and it's not long before the night takes a da...
Could it actually be pure coincidence for two people to disappear from the same family at the same address in the space of twenty-four hours? And for the one to have absolutely nothing to do with the other? 'The godfather of Swedish crime' Metro
'A master of suspense' Sunday Times
'One of the best of the Nordic Noir writers' Guardian
