The root of evil / Håkan Nesser ; translated from the Swedish by Sarah Death.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Swedish Series: Nesser, Håkan, Inspector Barbarotti ; 2.Publisher: London : Mantle, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Description: 594 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781509809370Uniform titles: Helt annan historia. English. Subject(s): Barbarotti, Inspector, (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Barbarotti, Inspector, (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Barbarotti, Gunnar (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction | Serial murder investigation -- Fiction | Letters -- Fiction | Diaries -- Fiction | Police -- Sweden -- Fiction | Sweden -- Fiction | Sweden -- FictionGenre/Form: Detective and mystery stories | Mystery fiction. | Detective and mystery fiction. Additional physical formats: ebook version: No titleDDC classification: 839.738 Summary: 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.
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Originally published in 2007 as "En helt annan historia" by Albert Bonniers fõrlag, Stockholm.
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.
Translated from the Swedish.
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