Hakan Nesser

Håkan Nesser is a Swedish author and teacher who has written several successful crime fiction novels. He has won Best Swedish Crime Novel Award three times, and his novel Carambole won the Glass Key award in 2000. His books have been translated from Swedish into numerous languages.

Håkan Nesser was born and grew up in Kumla and has lived most of his adult life in Uppsala. His first novel was published in 1988, but he worked as a teacher until 1998 when he became a full-time author. In August 2006, Håkan Nesser and his wife Elke moved to Greenwich Village in New York.

Books in order of publication (In English and Swedish) :

Bibliography

Inspector Van Veeteren

  • 1993 – Det grovmaskiga nätet; English translation: The Mind’s Eye, 2008
  • 1994 – Borkmanns punkt; English translation: Borkmann’s Point, 2006
  • 1995 – Återkomsten; English translation: The Return, 2007
  • 1996 – Kvinna med födelsemärke; English translation: Woman with Birthmark, 2009
  • 1997 – Kommissarien och tystnaden; English translation: The Inspector and Silence, 2010
  • 1998 – Münsters fall: English translation: The Unlucky Lottery, 2011 (Münster’s Case, USA, 2012)
  • 1999 – Carambole; English translation: Hour of the Wolf, 2012
  • 2000 – Ewa Morenos fall; English translation: The Weeping Girl, 2013
  • 2001 – Svalan, katten, rosen, döden; English translation: The Strangler’s Honeymoon, 2013
  • 2003 – Fallet G; English translation: The G File, 2014

Inspector Barbarotti

  • 2006 – Människa utan hund; English translation: The Darkest Day, 2017
  • 2007 – En helt annan historia; English translation: The Root of Evil, 2018
  • 2008 – Berättelse om herr Roos; English translation: The Secret Life of Mr. Roos, 2020
  • 2010 – De ensamma’; English translation: The Lonely Ones, 2022
  • 2012 – Styckerskan från Lilla Burma’; English translation: The Axe Woman, 2022
  • 2020 – Den sorgsne busschauffören från Alster
  • 2021 – Schack under vulkanen

Other novels

  • 1988 – Koreografen
  • 1996 – Barins triangel
  • 1998 – Kim Novak badade aldrig i Genesarets sjö; English translation by Saskia Vogel: A Summer with Kim Novak (2015), The Summer of Kim Novak (2020)
  • 1999 – Flugan och evigheten
  • 2002 – Och Piccadilly Circus ligger inte i Kumla
  • 2002 – Kära Agnes!
  • 2004 – Skuggorna och regnet
  • 2005 – Från doktor Klimkes horisont
  • 2009 – Maskarna på Carmine Street
  • 2011 – Himmel över London
  • 2014 – Levande och döda i Winsford; English translation: The Living and the Dead in Winsford (2015)
  • 2016 – Eugen Kallmanns ögon
  • 2017 – Nortons filosofiska memoarer; English translation: Norton’s Philosophical Memoirs (2018)
  • 2018 – INTRIGO (a collection of novellas: Tom (2018); Rein (1996); Dear Agnes (2002); The Flower from Samaria (2005); All the Information in the Case (2005))
  • 2018 – De vänsterhäntas förening
  • 2019 – Halvmördaran