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 father Karl-Erik and eldest daughter Ebba’s joint landmark birthdays. 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 has happened. And he soon discovers he’ll have to unravel a whole tangle of sinister family secrets in the process . . .

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 . . .

Da Ante Valdemar Roos var tolv år gammel, tog hans far livet af sig og efterlod en otte år gammel tipsrække. Valdemar tog over og har tippet samme række lige siden. Valdemar took over and has shifted the same number ever since. Han er nu næsten tres, og alle kloge ord om at ´tålmodighed belønnes´ viser sig at passe. HHan vinder to millioner et hundrede tusinde kroner. Uden at sige noget til familien siger han sit job op og køber et lille hus. Et sted, hvor han kan være sig selv. A place where he can be himself. Slippe for konen og hendes børn, slippe for jobbet og chefen. Bare være Ante Valdemar Roos og se, hvad det indebærer. Så en mandag, da han kommer ud til hytten, opdager han, at en kvinde har været der, og stik imod hvad han ville have troet, mærker han en lille glæde gro frem. Alt dette får først noget med vicekriminalkommissær Gunnar Barbarotti at gøre, da Roos forsvinder.

A trip behind the Iron Curtain would change their lives forever . . . It begins in 1969. Six young people arrive in Uppsala, Sweden. Different circumstances push the three young couples together and, over the course of a few years, they become friends. But a summer trip through Eastern Europe changes everything, and when their time at Uppsala University is over it also signals the end of something else. Years later, a lecturer at Lund University is found dead at the bottom of a cliff in the woods close to Kymlinge. And chillingly, it is the very same spot where one of the Uppsala students died thirty-five years before. Detective Inspector Gunnar Barbarotti takes on this ominous case of history repeating itself, and is forced to confront an increasingly grave reality. The Lonely Ones is the fourth novel of Håkan Nesser’s quintet about Inspector Gunnar Barbarotti.

Sweden 2012. When Inspector Gunnar Barbarotti returns to work after a terrible personal tragedy his boss asks him to investigate a cold case, hoping to ease him back gently into his police duties. Five years previously a shy electrician, Arnold Morinder, disappeared from the face of the earth, the only clue his blue moped abandoned in a nearby swamp. At the time his partner, Ellen Bjarnebo, claimed that Arnold had probably travelled to Norway never to return. But Ellen is one of Sweden’s most notorious killers, having served eleven years in prison after killing her abusive first husband and dismembering his body with an axe. And when Barbarotti seeks to interview Ellen in relation to Arnold’s disappearance she is nowhere to be found . . . But without a body and no chance of interviewing his prime suspect Barbarotti must use all the ingenuity at his disposal to make headway in the case. Still struggling with his personal demons, Barbarotti seeks solace from God, and the support of his colleague, Eva Backman. And as he finally begins to track down his suspect and the cold case begins to thaw, Barbarotti realizes that nothing about Ellen Bjarnebo can be taken for granted . . . The Axe Woman is the fifth and final Inspector Barbarotti novel from bestselling author Håkan Nesser.

Medan Marten Winckelstroop och Rejmus Fiste ännu går i Oosterby småskola bildar de De vänsterhäntas förening. Flera årtionden senare brinner ett gammalt pensionat ner till grunden och ett antal människor omkommer. Det ena hänger ihop med det andra, men det finns ingen kvar i livet som kan förklara hur. Nästan ingen. Det har gått femton år sedan den sista boken om kommissarie Van Veeteren kom ut. Det har gått sex år sedan man senast kunde läsa om inspektör Gunnar Barbarotti. I De vänsterhäntas förening möts de för första (och enda?) gången.