Woman with Birthmark

Resumen del libro

Having come thus far in his deliberations, Van Veeteren gave in to temptation and lit a cigarette. It was time to address the big question, and that would no doubt need a bit of extra effort.

Why?

Why in hell's name should anybody march up to somebody's door, ring the bell and shoot whoever opened it?

A young woman shivers in the December cold as her mother's body is laid to rest in a cemetery. The only thing that warms her is the thought of the revenge she will soon take . . .

Then a middle-aged man is killed at his home, shot twice in the chest and twice below the belt. He had recently received a series of bizarre phone calls where an old song is played down the line evoking an eerie sense of both familiarity and unease. Before the police can find the culprit, a second man is killed in the same way.

Chief Inspector Van Veeteren and his team must dig far back into each man's past but with few clues at each crime scene, can they find the killer before anyone else dies?

Biografía del autor

H kan Nesser (1950) es uno de los autores de novela negra más destacados del mundo, con más de 20 millones de ejemplares vendidos y publicado en más de 30 países. De entre su prolífica carrera destacan sus dos grandes creaciones literarias, el comisario Van Veeteren, una serie de novela negra formada por diez títulos, y la serie protagonizada por Gunnar Barbarotti, que consta, hasta el momento, con siete entregas. De entre los muchos premios que ha recibido, destacan el Glass Key, el European Crime Fiction Star Award, el Gold Paperback Award, el SNCF de Francia, de Francia, Palle Rosenkrantz Prize. Además, es el único autor que ha recibido hasta en tres ocasiones el Mejor novela negra escandinava otorgado por la Academia Sueca de Escritores.