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A woman arrives in the village of Winsford on Exmoor. She has travelled a long way and chosen her secluded cottage carefully. Her sole intention is to outlive her beloved dog Castor. And to survive the torrent of memories that threaten to overwhelm her. Weeks before, Maria and her husband Martin fled Stockholm under a cloud. The couple were bound for Morocco, where Martin planned to write an explosive novel; one that would reveal the truth behind dark events within his commune of writers decades before. But the couple never made it to their destination. As Maria settles into her lonely new life, walking the wild, desolate moors, it becomes clear that Winsford isn't quite the sanctuary she thought it would be. While the long, dark evenings close in and the weather worsens, strange things begin to happen around her. But what terrible secrets is Maria guarding? And who now is trying to find her?

The fifth and final Inspector Barbarotti novel from bestselling author Hkan Nesser, in which Inspector Barbarotti is given a cold case concerning the infamous Axewoman of Little Burma

The Darkest Day is the first novel in the five part Inspector Barbarotti series from renowned Swedish crime author Håkan Nesser.It's December in the quiet Swedish town of Kymlinge, and the Hermansson family are gathering to celebrate a big family birthday. But beneath the guise of happy festivities, tensions are running high, and it's not long before the night takes a dark and unexpected turn . . . Before the weekend is over, two members of the Hermansson family are missing, and it's up to Inspector Barbarotti - a detective who spends as much of his time debating the existence of God as he does solving cases - to determine exactly what happened on that darkest day, and unravel a web of sinister family secrets in the process . . .

Het is 1932. De dwergen Glauer en Ka ontvluchten de vernederingen van de freakshow op Coney Island, New York, en reizen naar Europa. In Berlijn beginnen ze een toneelgezelschap samen met Nelly, het eenzame meisje met een mes in haar rug, en Verner, de kleinste man ter wereld. Maar in Duitsland zijn het onzekere tijden. Hitler grijpt de mancht en zijn euthanasieprogramma begint vorm te krijgen. Angst drijft het getergde gezelschap naar Zweden, naar het pretpark Gröna Lund in Stockholm. Zouden ze hier een menswaardig bestaan kunnen opbouwen?

De dertigjarige Lucy wordt met een overdosis een New Yorks ziekenhuis binnengebracht. Ze is acht jaar daarvoor verdwenen. Haar zus Annie reist vanuit Zweden naar New York om bij haar bewusteloze zus te waken. Op aanraden van de behandelende arts vertelt Annie haar levensverhaal aan Lucy. Hun andere zus, Mimmi, stuurt per e-mail haar verhaal, zodat Annie het kan voorlezen. Dit alles in de hoop dat Lucy het hoort en zal bijkomen.

Lo Härjedalen, nel nord della Svezia, è una terra di foreste sterminate, i cui lunghi inverni sono a stento rischiarati dal bagliore della neve. È qui, in un casolare sperduto, che Herbert Molin, ex poliziotto in pensione, decide di ritirarsi. E qui, un brutale assassino lo raggiunge per accompagnarlo in un ultimo, terribile ballo con la morte. Quando la polizia arriva sulla scena del delitto, trova delle impronte di sangue che sembrano tracciare i passi del tango. Il trentasettenne Stefan Lindman, ispettore della polizia di Boràs, un tempo collega della vittima, per non doversi confrontare con la malattia che lo tormenta si butta a capofitto nelle indagini e scopre ben presto l'inquietante passato nazista di Molin. Esiste un legame tra la sua morte atroce e le sue convinzioni politiche? E qual è il ruolo della rete neonazista che, sempre più nitida, viene alla luce e sembra toccare lo stesso Lindman molto da vicino? Sulle tracce dell'assassino, che dalla Svezia portano in Germania e Argentina, la sua inchiesta ripercorre un pezzo doloroso della nostra storia. Lo attende una rivelazione sconvolgente, oltre all'amara consapevolezza che la follia che per anni devastò l'Europa non è affatto sepolta.