TY - BOOK AU - Nesser,Håkan AU - Death,Sarah TI - The root of evil T2 - The Barbarotti series SN - 9781509809370 U1 - 839.738 23 PY - 2018/// CY - London PB - Mantle KW - Barbarotti, Inspector, KW - Barbarotti, Gunnar (Fictitious character) KW - Fiction KW - Murder KW - Investigation KW - Serial murder investigation KW - Letters KW - Diaries KW - Police KW - Sweden KW - Detective and mystery stories KW - Mystery fiction KW - gsafd KW - Detective and mystery fiction KW - lcgft N1 - Originally published in 2007 as "En helt annan historia" by Albert Bonniers fõrlag, Stockholm N2 - 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 ER -