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Zusatztext One of Sweden's best crime writers Informationen zum Autor 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. In addition to the popular Van Veeteren series, his other books include the psychological thriller The Living and the Dead in Winsford and The Barbarotti series. Klappentext 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 already dead. 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. Meanwhile, an anonymous diary is unearthed depicting the incidents of a two week holiday in France five years earlier. And it doesn't take Inspector Barbarotti long to realize the people populating the diary are the ones whose lives are now in the balance . . . '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 Zusammenfassung The second installment in Hakan Nessers Inspector Barbarotti quintet: a series of letters detailing future murders arrives on Inspector Barbarottis very own doorstep . . ....
