Håkan Nesser

Eine unbeschwerte Sommerreise in den siebziger Jahren. So fangt alles an. Drei Paare aus Uppsala, miteinander befreundet und jung, planen eine Busreise von Schweden durch die Ostblocklander bis ans Schwarze Meer. Aber was so lustig beginnt, endet im Desaster. Die Wege der Sechs trennen sich nach diesem Urlaub - und kreuzen sich ein Menschenalter spater erneut, als ein Dozent aus Lunda in den Waldern vor Kymlinge am Fue eines Steilhangs tot aufgefunden wird. Genau an derselben Stelle, an der eine junge Studentin aus Uppsala vor funfunddreiig Jahren unter mysteriosen Umstanden ums Leben kam ...

En la ciudad de Maardam, una localidad gris y húmeda situada en algún lugar del norte de Europa, el arisco y malhumorado inspector Van Veeteren dirige un equipo de policías con los que las cosas no siempre son faciles. No parece, sin embargo, que el caso que se les presenta ahora sea demasiado complicado: Eva Ringmar ha aparecido asesinada en la bañera de su casa y su esposo, el profesor de instituto Janek Mattias Mitter, al haberestado bebiendo la noche anterior, es incapaz de recordar si ha cometido o no el crimen. Pero lo que en principio preveian como una investigacion rutinaria, dara un giro inesperado y se convertira en un problema mucho mas complejo de lo que imaginaban. El intuitivo Van Veeteren debera dejar a un lado sus problemas personales e investigar el pasado del matrimonio para resolver el misterio que les rodea.La tosca red es la primera de una serie de novelas que Nesser ha escrito con el inspector Van Veeteren como protagonista, y que ha cautivado a incontables lectores escandinavos.

Four friends celebrate winning the lottery. Just hours later, one of them - Waldemar Leverkuhn - is found in his home, stabbed to death. With Chief Inspector Van Veeteren on sabbatical, working in a second hand bookshop, the case is assigned to Inspector Münster. But when another member of the lottery group disappears, as well as Leverkuhn's neighbour, Münster appeals to Van Veeteren for assistance. Soon Münster will find himself interviewing the Leverkuhn family, including the eldest - Irene - a resident of a psychiatric clinic. And as he delves deeper into the family's history, he will discover dark secrets and startling twists, which not only threaten the clarity of the case - but also his life . . .

Van Veeteren thought back to what his friend Mahler had said the previous evening: Doing something at the right time is more important than what you actually do...An unmissable hospital appointment is looming for Inspector Van Veeteren when a corpse is found rolled in a rotting carpet by a young child playing in a local beauty spot. Missing head and limbs, the torso is too badly decomposed for forensic identification - bar one crucial detail...Circumstantial evidence soon points to a local man, a double murderer who disappeared 9 months before, shortly after being released on parole; a local hero turned monster after being convicted of killing two women over a span of three decades. Recuperating after an operation, Van Veeteren is nevertheless directing investigations from his hospital bed, for he is convinced that only the innocence of this new victim can be the motive for his murder. But the two women have been dead for long enough for any evidence to have died with them...And is he - a little like Inspector Morse can be on occasion - simply on the wrong track completely?

Deux appels anonymes signalent la disparition d''une adolescente séjournant dans un camp de vacances. Bientôt, la police trouve un premier cadavre. Van Veeteren, désigné pour mener l''enquête, découv

In this gripping novel from an internationally acclaimed author, a detective is summoned to a quiet north European town by the sea to track down the link between a series of murders.

Ein seltsames Testament und ein längst gesühntes Verbrechen: Jahrelang saß der 54-jährige Bibliotheksangestellte Maertens wegen Mordes an seinem Professor im Gefängnis. Inzwischen wieder in Freiheit, lebt er völlig zurückgezogen. Doch plötzlich gerät sein sorgsam ausgetüfteltes Dasein aus dem Gleichgewicht: Sein einstmals bester Freund Tomas ist gestorben und hat ihm ein ungewöhnliches Erbe hinterlassen. Als Maertens es antritt, wird ihm allmählich klar, dass sein Freund ihn vor Jahren brutal hintergangen hat01Håkan Nesser, geboren 1950, ist einer der interessantesten und aufregendsten Kriminalautoren Schwedens. Dem deutschen Publikum ist er vor allem durch seine Reihe um Kommissar Van Veeteren bekannt, die bereits Millionen Fans hat. Für seine Kriminalromane um Inspektor Van Veeteren erhielt er zahlreiche Auszeichnungen, sie sind in mehrere Sprachen übersetzt und wurden erfolgreich verfilmt. Hakan Nesser lebt in New York.01Christel Hildebrandt, geboren 1952 in Lauenburg, studierte Germanistik, Soziologie und Literaturwissenschaft und wandte sich nach der Promotion der skandinavischen Literatur zu. Seit 1988 arbeitet sie als freie literarische Übersetzerin aus den Sprachen Norwegisch, Dänisch und Schwedisch. Sie erhielt den Paul-Celan-Preis nominiert wurde. Daneben reicht die Palette ihrer Übersetzungen von Henrik Ibsen bis zu Håkan Nesser, Jógvan Isaksen und Hanne Marie Svendsen. Mit ihrem Mann, drei Töchtern und einer Katze lebt Christel Hildebrandt in Hamburg.

Hkan Nesser is firmly established as one of the worlds bestselling crime novelists. And now, The Mind''s Eye, the novel that introduced Chief Inspector Van Veeteren is available for the first time in English. The ease of the conviction left Van Veeteren uneasy: Janek Mitter woke one morning with a brutal hangover and his wife dead in the bathtub. With only the flimsiest defense, he is found guilty and imprisoned in a mental institution. But when Mitter is murdered in his bed, Van Veeteren regrets not following his gut and launches an investigation into the two murders. And as the chief inspector delves deeper, the twisted root of these violent murders will shock even him.

Esperar lo que nunca llegó. Un autobús. Un buen tío. Un trabajo decente. Es el resumen de la vida de esta mujer de sonrisa suave, con boina oscura y abrigo claro. Una mujer sin nombre, ligeramente inclinada sobre una lápida, con un pequeño lunar en la mejilla izquierda. Sola en el entierro de su madre. Sola en el momento que decide que sí, que se pondrá en marcha y cumplirá el último deseo de su madre. Su vida deberá cambiar. Nuevo aspecto y nuevo nombre. Nueva ciudad y una misión que medio año atrás habría considerado una locura total. Matar a cuatro hombres que nunca deberían haberse cruzado en la vida de su madre ni en la suya. Por vez primera en su vida encontrará un equilibrio y un sentido… El comisario Van Veeteren trata, entre tanto, de comprender qué conduce a esa mujer a convertirse en una concienzuda asesina e impedir que consuma sus ejecuciones.

The third compelling mystery in the Inspector Van Veeteren series 'Don't you see,' he'd have liked to ask her, 'don't you see, that if only you'd told me everything that first time we could have saved a life? Possibly two . . .' Janek Mitter stumbles into his bathroom one morning after a night of heavy drinking, to find his beautiful young wife, Eva, floating dead in the bath. She has been brutally murdered. Yet even during his trial Mitter cannot summon a single memory of attacking Eva, nor a clue as to who could have killed her if he had not. Only once he has been convicted and locked away in an asylum for the criminally insane does he have a snatch of insight - but is it too late? Drawing a blank after exhaustive interviews, Chief Inspector Van Veeteren remains convinced that something, or someone, in the dead woman's life has caused these tragic events. But the reasons for her speedy remarriage have died with her. And as he delves even deeper, Van Veeteren realizes that the past never stops haunting the present . . .

Wird Barbarotti aufs Abstellgleis befordert Nach einem personlichen Schicksalsschlag soll er sich mit dem Fall eines funf Jahre zuvor spurlos verschwundenen Elektrikers beschaftigen. Nicht nur Kollegin Backman fragt sich, ob es sich hierbei nicht nur um eine Form von Beschaftigungstherapie fur einen trauernden und labilen Kollegen handelt. Und es sieht auch ganz so aus, als sei Barbarotti nun zum Spezialisten fur sogenannte kalte Falle geworden, deren tatsachliche Losung zweifelhaft ist. Tatsachlich lebte besagter Elektriker zum Zeitpunkt seines Verschwindens mit einer Frau zusammen, die bereits einmal einen Mord begangen und dafur elf Jahre im Gefangnis gesessen hatte. Nur beweisen konnte man ihr in diesem Fall nichts: denn ohne Leiche, keine Morderin. Doch Gunnar Barbarotti tut das, was er am besten kann: Er ermittelt. Mosaiksteinchen um Mosaiksteinchen setzt er zusammen, und als er schlielich begreift, was gespielt wird, hat das weitreichende Konsequenzen ...

Winnie Maas died because she changed her mind ...A community is left reeling after a teacher -- Arnold Maager -- is convicted of murdering his female pupil Winnie Maas. It seems the girl had been pregnant with Maager's child. Years later, on her eighteenth birthday, Maager's daughter Mikaela finally learns the terrible truth about her father. Desperate for answers, Mikaela travels to the institution at Lejnice, where Maager has been held since his trial. But soon afterwards she inexplicably vanishes. Detective Inspector Ewa Moreno from the Maardam Police is on holiday in the area when she finds herself drawn into the case of Mikaela's disappearance. But before she can make any headway in the investigation, Maager himself disappears -- and then a body is found. It will soon become clear to Ewa that only unravelling the events of the past will unlock this dark mystery ...

Eine tote Frau in einem Swimmingpool und ein Morder mit wasserdichtem Alibi Eine tote Frau in einem leeren Swimminpool, ein Morder mit einem wasserdichten Alibi und Ex- Kommissar Van Veeteren, dem dieser Fall der einzig ungeloste seiner Laufbahn auch funfzehn Jahre nach der Tat keine Ruhe lasst. Wer hat Barbara Clarissa Hennan auf dem Gewissen? Ihr Mann G., wie alle glauben, dem aber nichts zu beweisen ist? Das plotzliche Verschwinden eines Privatdetektivs, der G. damals beschattet hat, ist fur Van Veeteren Anlass, die Sache noch einmal neu aufzurollen

Van Veeteren Mysteries Book 10 by Hakan Nesser. The final stunning mystery in the Swedish star's landmark Inspector Van Veeteren series: can Van Veeteren ever hope to find the solution to the case that has evaded him all these years - The G File? 1987. Maarten Verlangan, a former cop turned private detective is hired by a woman to follow her husband. The request is hardly unusual; but then two events occur that turn everything on its head. First, Verlangan realises that Barbara's husband Jaan 'G' Hennan is a man he helped put in prison many years before; and then, a few days later, Barbara is found dead at the bottom of an empty swimming pool...Maardam police, led by Chief Inspector Van Veeteren, investigate the case. Like Verlangan, Van Veeteren has encountered Jaan 'G' Hennan before and knows only too well the man's dark capabilities. When it is then discovered that G is due to receive a huge insurance pay-out following his wife's 'accidental' death - and further information about his shadowy past comes to light - Van Veeteren becomes more desperate than ever to convict him. But Verlangan himself witnessed G sitting in a restaurant at the time of Barbara's fatal plummet - and no one else can be found in relation to the crime...2002. 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 dark, ambitious and hugely gripping crime thriller, The G File is the stunning final instalment in the landmark Van Veeteren series.

Quelques jours avant Noël, deux membres de la famille Hermansson manquent à l'appel. Robert, quarantenaire dépressif, est le premier à se volatiliser. Il était la risée du pays tout entier après avoi

Could this be Van Veeteren''s darkest case yet?Desperately lonely, sixteen-year-old Monica Kammerle has little idea of what she is getting herself into when she begins an affair with her mothers latest partner; the sophisticated Benjamin Kerran . . .Months later, when a womans strangled body is found, the Maardam police must discover who has committed this terrible crime. It isnt long before they realize the perpetrator may have killed before and is likely to do so again.Meanwhile former Chief Inspector Van Veeteren finds himself drawn into the mystery when a priest, who has learned dreadful secrets, appeals to him for help. But when the priest falls beneath the wheels of a train and the police find more dead-ends than leads, it seems Van Veeteren will have to come up with a new approach to unearth this dark serial killer. Before he chooses his next victim . . .

There is nobody in the world who knows that we are here ...A woman arrives in the village of Winsford on Exmoor. She has travelled a long way and chosen her secluded cottage carefully. Her sole intention is to outlive her beloved dog Castor. And to survive the torrent of memories that threaten to overwhelm her. Weeks before, Maria and her husband Martin fled Stockholm under a cloud. The couple were bound for Morocco, where Martin planned to write an explosive novel; one that would reveal the truth behind dark events within his commune of writers decades before. But the couple never made it to their destination. As Maria settles into her lonely new life, walking the wild, desolate moors, it becomes clear that Winsford isn't quite the sanctuary she thought it would be. While the long, dark evenings close in and the weather worsens, strange things begin to happen around her. But what terrible secrets is Maria guarding? And who is trying to find her? A haunting, masterly unravelling of a dreadful crime, in The Living and the Dead in Winsford Hakan Nesser, the bestselling, award-winning author of the Van Veeteren series, tightens the tension like a noose . .