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Root of Evil

Håkan Nesser

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      'Godfather of Swedish Crime' (Metro), Hakan Nesser, is back with the second installment in the Inspector Barbarotti series, The Root of Evil.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. 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 Barbarotti long to realize the people populating the diary are the ones whose lives are now in the balance . . .
      CONTRIBUTORS: Håkan Nesser EAN: 9781509809370 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 746 g HEIGHT: 224 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Pan Macmillan DATE PUBLISHED: CITY: GENRE: FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / International Crime & Mystery, FICTION / Thrillers / Crime, FICTION / Crime, FICTION / Noir WIDTH: 147 cm SPINE:

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      Sweden, Crime and mystery: police procedural, Fiction in translation
      'Godfather of Swedish Crime' (Metro), Hakan Nesser, is back with the second installment in the Inspector Barbarotti series, The Root of Evil.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. 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 Barbarotti long to realize the people populating the diary are the ones whose lives are now in the balance . . .
      CONTRIBUTORS: Håkan Nesser EAN: 9781509809370 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 746 g HEIGHT: 224 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Pan Macmillan DATE PUBLISHED: CITY: GENRE: FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / International Crime & Mystery, FICTION / Thrillers / Crime, FICTION / Crime, FICTION / Noir WIDTH: 147 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      Sweden, Crime and mystery: police procedural, Fiction in translation

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      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), the Swedish Crime Writers’ Academy Prize (three times) and Scandinavia’s Glass Key Award. His Van Veeteren series is published in over twenty-five countries and has sold over 15 million copies worldwide. 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. Håkan Nesser lives in Gotland with his wife, and spends part of each year in the UK.

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