The Root of Evil
by Håkan Nesser
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Håkan Nesser, 'the Godfather of Swedish Crime' (Metro), is back with the second installment in the Inspector Barbarotti series, The Root of Evil.
*Shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association's International Dagger*
July 2007. A letter arrives on Inspector Barbarotti's doorstep detailing a murder that is about to take place in his 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 . . .
Continue the thrilling investigative series with The Secret Life of Mr Roos.
'One of the best of the Nordic Noir writers' - Guardian
*Shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association's International Dagger*
July 2007. A letter arrives on Inspector Barbarotti's doorstep detailing a murder that is about to take place in his 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 . . .
Continue the thrilling investigative series with The Secret Life of Mr Roos.
'One of the best of the Nordic Noir writers' - Guardian
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Format
Paperback
Pages
608
Price
14.00 €
Description
Håkan Nesser, 'the Godfather of Swedish Crime' (Metro), is back with the second installment in the Inspector Barbarotti series, The Root of Evil.
*Shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association's International Dagger*
July 2007. A letter arrives on Inspector Barbarotti's doorstep detailing a murder that is about to take place in his 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 . . .
Continue the thrilling investigative series with The Secret Life of Mr Roos.
'One of the best of the Nordic Noir writers' - Guardian
*Shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association's International Dagger*
July 2007. A letter arrives on Inspector Barbarotti's doorstep detailing a murder that is about to take place in his 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 . . .
Continue the thrilling investigative series with The Secret Life of Mr Roos.
'One of the best of the Nordic Noir writers' - Guardian
Book Information
Main Genre
N/A
Sub Genre
N/A
Format
Paperback
Pages
608
Price
14.00 €



