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An ex-con is brutally murdered with an ax in Kaalbringen. Then the body of a wealthy real estate mogul is found, also the victim of a violent attack. There appears to be a serial killer on the loose, and Chief Inspector Van Veeteren is called in to help the local police. As details surrounding the grisly murders are collected, Van Veeteren finds little to go on. But then there's another murder, and shortly thereafter one of Van Veeteren's colleagues, a promising female detective, goes missing.

Chief Inspector Van Veeteren knew that murder cases were never as open-and-shut as this one: Janek Mitter woke one morning with a brutal hangover and discovered his wife of three months lying facedown in the bathtub, dead. With only the flimsiest excuse as his defense, he is found guilty of a drunken crime of passion and imprisoned in a mental institution.

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 starts with a drunk man killing a boy as he hits him with his car. Thinking no one has seen him, he feels he's off the hook. Until he receives a message telling him that the sender knows what he's done, and unless he pays him a ransom, to be left in a bag at a secluded men's room, he'll squeal. The killer does as instructed, but as he sees a young man leave with said bag, he then kills the young man.

For Waldemar Leverkuhn, a retiree living with his wife in a small unit in an unassuming block of apartments, the day couldn't begin more auspiciously. He, along with three friends, have won the lottery. It's a modest but healthy sum of money and the old men toast to their good luck with a celebratory dinner. The day ends, however, with Leverkuhn drunk, belligerent, and eventually dead in his bed, stabbed 28 times in the chest. After a cursory investigation, Leverkuhn's quiet, weary wife incredibly confesses to murder.

While on a field trip through the woods on the outskirts of Behren, a young girl stumbles upon a decomposing body wrapped in a carpet and lying in a ditch. The body has no hands, feet, or head, but this was not the work of wild animals. A brutal killer is on the loose, but who is the victim? From the hospital bed where he is recovering from surgery, Chief Inspector Van Veeteren begins to piece together the fragmentary clues that involve a nun who hides a secret, a crippled woman, the murders of two other women, and a missing former track star who served two sentences for murder....

A secretive and dubious religious sect comes under investigation as one of their young members, a girl on the cusp of puberty, is found dead in the forest, brutally raped and strangled. Adopting to remain silent over the incident rather than defend themselves, the members of The Pure Life - led by their intelligent but perturbing messiah figure, Oscar Yellineck - simultaneously anger and mystify Van Veeteren and the other detectives on the case.

Questo audiolibro si apre con una telefonata. Come sempre, si tratta di lavoro e la vacanza di Van Veeteren finisce senza che il commissario possa godersi la malinconia degli ultimi giorni. A Kaalbringen, una piccola città non lontana da dove il commissario sta trascorrendo le ferie, si aggira un assassino, che ha già colpito due volte. Le vittime diventano tali a distanza di pochi giorni e non si somigliano: uno è un piccolo spacciatore, l'altro un ricco imprenditore.

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.

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.

Unos días antes de Navidad, la familia Hermansson al completo se reúne para celebrar los sesenta y cinco años de Karl-Erik, un padre encomiable y maestro jubilado, y los cuarenta de Ebba, su hija favorita. Unas horas después, se producen dos desapariciones inexplicables: primero, Robert, la oveja negra de la familia; al día siguiente Henrik, el hijo mayor de Ebba, quien desaparece en medio de la noche sin dejar rastro.

Una famiglia modello, gli Hermansson. O quasi. Pochi giorni prima di Natale sono riuniti per festeggiare un centocinquesimo compleanno: i sessantacinque anni di Karl-Erik, padre encomiabile e insegnante in pensione, e i quaranta di Ebba, la sua figlia prediletta. È l'occasione per ritrovare proprio tutti, perfino Robert, la "pecora nera" della famiglia: scrittore mancato (il suo romanzo, L'uomo senza un cane, è da dieci anni in attesa di pubblicazione), è assurto agli onori delle cronache per aver partecipato a un reality show di pessimo gusto, creando non poco imbarazzo ai suoi.

Håkan Nessers neuer Krimi um Intrigen und Mord im schwedischen Literaturbetrieb. Gibt es den perfekten Mord? Die Leser des erfolgreichen Autors Franz J. Lunde sind sich sicher: Wer einen Mord so schildert, muss ihn selbst begangen haben. Lunde, der an einem Manuskript mit dem Titel "Letzte Tage und Tod eines Schriftstellers" arbeitet, fühlt sich von seinem Publikum bedroht. Nach einer Lesung in Kymlinge ist er plötzlich spurlos verschwunden. Kurze Zeit später wird die bekannte Lyrikerin Maria Green vermisst. Auch sie hinterlässt ein rätselhaftes Schriftfragment.

Sein persönlichster Fall. Inspektor Barbarotti auf dem Abstellgleis? Als er nach einem persönlichen Schicksalsschlag zum ersten Mal wieder im Dienst erscheint, soll er zwei ungeklärte Mordfälle wieder aufnehmen. In deren Zentrum steht die mysteriöse Ellen Bjarnebo: die hat nicht nur ihren ersten Mann grausam ermordet, sondern wahrscheinlich auch ihren zweiten - der ist nämlich seit Jahren spurlos verschwunden. Doch ohne Leiche keine Mörderin.

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.

Il commissario Van Veeteren, ispettore capo della polizia di Maardam, è finalmente a riposo e non ha intenzione di tornare a fare il detective: il nuovo lavoro alla libreria antiquaria Krantze e la relazione con Ulrike sono la sua occupazione a tempo pieno. Non può però sottrarsi alla richiesta di aiuto del sovrintendente Münster, che per anni è stato il suo fido braccio destro. Lui e i suoi colleghi sono impantanati in un caso che li sta mettendo in seria difficoltà: Waldemar Leverkuhn, pensionato e dalla vita in apparenza irreprensibile, una notte viene trovato accoltellato nel suo letto.

L'été suédois 196… promet d'être beau et chaud. Dans un cadre idyllique - une bicoque familiale au bord d’un lac, à l'orée d'une forêt - Erik, quatorze ans, entame ses vacances avec son ami Edmund et son grand frère Henry. Pour les deux adolescents, qui goûtent pour la première fois à l'ivresse de la liberté, ce sera l'été de toutes les découvertes. Ce sera aussi l'été de tous les fantasmes. Un soir, Henry revient accompagné d'une femme, qui n’est autre que leur professeur, la sublime Eva Kaludis.

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.

Von Schuld, Sehnsucht und einer grausamen Täuschung. Wo ist Sara? Vierzehn Monate ist es her, dass Erik und Winnie Steinbecks vierjährige Tochter verschwunden ist.

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.