Året är 1995. Spelplats: en högstadieskola i staden K- i det inre av Norrland. Huvudrollsinnehavare: ett antal elever, ett par lärare, en kurator. Samt den nyligen avlidne lektorn i svenska - Eugen Kallmann. Vem var han egentligen? Hur står det till med utredningen av hans död? Det är en tid av främlingsfientlighet. Det ritas skeva hakkors på skolans väggar. Det skrivs hotbrev. I en skrivbordslåda hittar någon lektor Kallmanns efterlämnade dagböcker.
Author
Håkan Nesser is a Swedish author and teacher who has written a number of successful crime fiction novels. He has won Best Swedish Crime Novel Award three times, and his novel Carambole won the Glass Key award in 2000. His books have been translated from Swedish into numerous languages. Håkan Nesser was born and grew up in Kumla, and has lived most of his adult life in Uppsala. His first novel was published in 1988, but he worked as a teacher until 1998 when he became a full-time author. In August, 2006, Håkan Nesser and his wife Elke moved to Greenwich Village in New York. Series: * Inspector Van Veeteren * Inspector Barbarotti
