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A dysfunctional family go into meltdown when two members go missing one snowy night.

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The Darkest Day is the first novel in the five part Inspector Barbarotti series from renowned Swedish crime author H†kan Nesser.

It´s December in the quiet Swedish town of Kymlinge, and the Hermansson family are gathering to celebrate father Karl-Erik and eldest daughter Ebba´s joint landmark birthdays. 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 has happened. And he soon discovers he´ll have to unravel a whole tangle of sinister family secrets in the process . . .

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Barbarotti has to disentangle years of bad blood and resentment to get to the heart of a thrillingly complex case Joan Smith Sunday Times

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Nesser, H†kan

H†kan Nesser is one of Sweden´s most popular crime writers, receiving numerous awards for his novels featuring Inspector Van Veeteren, including the European Crime Fiction Star Award (Ripper Award) 2010/11, the Swedish Crime Writers´ Academy Prize (three times) and Scandinavia´s Glass Key Award. The Van Veeteren series is published in over 25 countries and has sold over 10 million copies worldwide. H†kan Nesser lives in Gotland with his wife and spends part of each year in the UK.

In addition to the popular Van Veeteren series, his other books include the psychological thriller The Living and the Dead in Winsford and The Barbarotti series.

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