Håkan Nesser est un auteur suédois célèbre pour ses romans policiers captivants. Ses œuvres sont reconnues pour leurs études de personnages complexes et leurs explorations des relations humaines tortueuses et des ambiguïtés morales. Le style d'écriture de Nesser est fluide et atmosphérique, entraînant le lecteur dans des mystères sombres et des rebondissements psychologiques. Ses récits sont loués pour leur intelligence et leurs dénouements inattendus.
Une adolescente séjournant dans un camp de vacances disparaît. Le commissaire Van Veeteren, appelé à la rescousse par un jeune collègue, découvre que ce camp de vacances est en fait une secte rigide, La Vie Pure, dirigée par un maître qui a tout pouvoir sur ses adeptes.
Un professeur de philosophie découvre sa femme morte dans sa baignoire. En attendant l’arrivée de la police, il fait le ménage et met en route sa machine à laver. Suspecté puis traduit en justice, il se contente de nier sans se départir d’une apparente indifférence. Jusqu’au jour où il est lui-même assassiné... Le mystère s’épaissit pour le commissaire Van Veeteren chargé de l’enquête.
L'inspectrice Eva Moreno pensait pouvoir profiter de quelques jours de congés. En route pour la plage, elle se retrouve impliquée malgré elle dans la disparition d'une jeune fille. Cette affaire en fait remonter une autre à la surface : la mort mystérieuse d'une collégienne, seize ans plus tôt. Quand le cadavre d'un inconnu est retrouvé sur la plage, enfoui à la hâte dans le sable, l'enquête se complique, et tout mène à la jeune fille. Cette fois c'est sûr : les vacances sont gâchées.
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 young boy is killed in a hit and run. Under the cover of rain and darkness, the driver escapes the scene. But the incident will change his life forever as he becomes the victim of blackmail ... Meanwhile Van Veeteren, now retired from the Maardam police, faces his greatest challenge yet when a family member becomes the victim of a terrible crime. And, as the body count rises, it gradually becomes clear that the person behind these murders is acting on their own dark logic.
A man starts a double life after a secret lottery win. But he can’t know just how sour his new life will turn . . .
The fifth and final Inspector Barbarotti novel from bestselling author Hkan Nesser, in which Inspector Barbarotti is given a cold case concerning the infamous Axewoman of Little Burma
The Darkest Day is the first novel in the five part Inspector Barbarotti series from renowned Swedish crime author Håkan Nesser.It's December in the quiet Swedish town of Kymlinge, and the Hermansson family are gathering to celebrate a big family birthday. 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 . . . Before the weekend is over, two members of the Hermansson family are missing, and it's up to Inspector Barbarotti - a detective who spends as much of his time debating the existence of God as he does solving cases - to determine exactly what happened on that darkest day, and unravel a web of sinister family secrets in the process . . .
The Lonely Ones follows the mystery of two couples who die thirty-five years apart in the exact same spot.
For fans of Scandinavian crime, Intrigo is the gripping collection of Håkan Nesser's best novellas and short stories, three of which have been adapted into major motion pictures. Set in the fictional city of Maardam, each story is linked by themes of secrets coming to light, lies being exposed, and pasts coming back to haunt the people who thought they had fled them - all told in Håkan Nesser's signature style of dark, cutting prose that displays a true understanding of human nature. The collection is the basis for a trilogy of international films - Dear Agnes, Death of an Author and Samaria -directed by Daniel Alfredson and starring Ben Kingsley and Gemma Chan.
