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Nach einem tödlich verlaufenden Verkehrsunfall begeht der Fahrer Fahrerflucht. Er kann nicht wissen, dass seine Feigheit schließlich drei weiteren Menschen den Tod bringen wird und seine Vertuschungsmanöver ihn letztlich gründlicher ruinieren werden, als seine Todesfahrt es je gekonnt hätte ...

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?

The Strangler's Honeymoon is the penultimate gripping Scandinavian crime thriller in the Van Veeteren series by Håkan Nesser. Desperately lonely, 16-year-old Monica Kammerle has little idea of what she is getting herself into when she begins an affair with her mother's latest partner, the sophisticated Benjamin Kerran.... Months later, when a woman's strangled body is found, the Maardam police must discover who has committed this terrible crime.

After hearing her mother’s deathbed confession and following the dreary funeral, Maria Adler realizes she has no other option but to seize upon her mother’s imperative to do something. Dissolving the life she loathes, Maria changes her appearance and disappears. When she emerges, revenge is her sole occupation. Inspector Van Veeteren and his associates are left bewildered by the curious murder of a man shot twice in the heart and twice below the belt. He was a quiet, utterly dull man, and the only suspicious activity his surviving wife can recall is a series of peculiar phone calls.

It begins in 1969. Six young people arrive in Uppsala. 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 35 years before.

In the heart of summer, the country swelters in a fug of heat. In the beautiful forested lake town of Sorbinowo, Sergeant Merwin Kluuge's tranquil existence is shattered when he receives a phone call from an anonymous woman. She tells him that a girl has gone missing from the summer camp of the mysterious The Pure Life, a religious sect buried deep in the woods. Chief Inspector Van Veeteren is recruited to help solve the mystery.

Vier Rentner feiern in einer Kneipe ihren Lottogewinn. Reichlich angetrunken machen sich die vier auf den Heimweg. Stunden später ist einer von ihnen tot, hinterrücks erstochen in seiner eigenen Wohnung. Kommissar Münster übernimmt den Fall, denn Kommissar Van Veeteren hat sich für ein Jahr beurlauben lassen und arbeitet in einem Antiquariat. Doch keiner seiner Kollegen glaubt, dass er von der Ermittlungsarbeit lassen kann. Und in der Tat holt sich Münster schon bald Rat bei Van Veeteren, denn der Fall wird immer mysteriöser.

A young woman shivers in the December cold as her mother's body is laid to rest in a cemetery. The only thing that warms her is the thought of the revenge she will soon take.... Then a middle-aged man is killed at his home, shot twice in the chest and twice below the belt. He had recently received a series of bizarre phone calls where an old song is played down the line - evoking an eerie sense of both familiarity and unease. Before the police can find the culprit, a second man is killed in the same way.

At 59 years old, Valdemar Roos is tired of life. Working a job he hates, with a wife he barely talks to and two step-daughters he doesn't get on with, he doesn't have a lot to look forward to. Then, one day, a winning lottery ticket gives him an opportunity to start afresh. Without telling a soul, he quits his job and buys a hut in the remote Swedish countryside. Every day he travels down to this man-made oasis, returning each evening to his unsuspecting wife. Life couldn't be better, until a young woman arrives in paradise.

Adalbert Hanzon ist 73 Jahre alt, von Vergesslichkeit geplagt und hat mit der Welt abgeschlossen. Bis er in einer Apotheke jene Frau wiederzuerkennen glaubt, die einmal seine große Liebe war: Andrea Altman. Damals arbeitete er als Hausmeister, sie verliebten sich ineinander. Doch Andrea war bereits vergeben, ein Ausweg schien unmöglich, bis die beiden einen kühnen Plan fassten – bei dessen Umsetzung allerdings ein entscheidendes Detail schief ging. Seither blieb Andrea spurlos verschwunden. Adalbert bleibt der Unbekannten auf den Fersen.

In the dead of night, in the pouring rain, a drunk driver smashes his car into a young man. He abandons the body at the side of the road, but the incident will set in motion a chain of events which will change his life forever. Soon Chief Inspector Van Veeteren, now retired from the Maardam police force, will face his greatest trial yet as someone close to him is, inexplicably, murdered.

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 18th 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.

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 nine 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.

Wer war Dorflehrer Kallmann wirklich? Nach dem Tod seiner Frau und seiner Tochter kündigt Lehrer Leon Berger seinen Job, verlässt Stockholm und landet durch Zufall in einer Kleinstadt weit im Norden Schwedens. Dort wird ein neuer Lehrer gesucht, denn Eugen Kallmann, der ehemalige Schwedisch-Dozent, wurde wenige Monate zuvor tot aufgefunden. War sein Tod wirklich ein Unfall? Als seine Kollegen Kallmanns Tagebuch finden, beginnen sie nachzuforschen.

Glückssucher in Berlin. Einen Nobelpreis wird er wohl nicht bekommen. Arne Murberg ist von schlichterem Gemüt. Nach einem Badeunfall in der Kindheit hat er Schwierigkeiten sich zu konzentrieren und komplexere Zusammenhänge zu erfassen. Aber Arne ist ein warmherziger, liebenswerter Mensch, der sich eine kindlich naive, offene Art bewahrt hat und voll Vertrauen auf das Leben blickt.

Cent cinq bougies à souffler ! La sainte famille Hermansson est au complet sous le toit parental à Kymlinge, une petite ville de province en Suède, pour fêter deux anniversaires, celui du père, soixante-cinq ans, et de la fille aînée, Ebba, quarante ans. La bonne humeur forcée des retrouvailles un peu guindées tourne à l'angoisse : deux membres de la famille disparaissent.

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 secondhand 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.

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.

Ein neuer spannender Fall für Kommissar Van Veeteren - die furiose Geschichte eines fast perfekten Mordes. An einem sonnigen Augusttag wird ein Mann aus dem Gefängnis entlassen. An einem regnerischen Apriltag finden spielende Kinder seine Leiche...

Es ist eine neblige, nasskalte Nacht. Der Regen gießt in Strömen, und der Junge, der am Straßenrand geht, ist kaum zu sehen. Als der Mann den Aufprall hört, ist es bereits zu spät: die Verletzungen des Jungen sind tödlich – und der schwer angetrunkene Fahrer gerät in Panik und macht sich aus dem Staub. Warum sollte er sein ganzes Leben zerstören wegen dieses Unglücksfalls? Sich von seiner Karriere verabschieden? Seine Zukunft aufs Spiel setzen, die auf einmal in leuchtenden Farben vor ihm steht.