The Root of Evil (Inspector Barbarotti Series 2)
de Håkan Nesser
October 11, 2022
THE AUTHOR: The dean and father of the Nordic crime novel and inspiration for many authors of the genre: long before Stieg Larsson blew up all sales records, Håkan Nesser was already selling millions of books of his novels. Nesser is, without a doubt, one of the most prominent crime novel authors in the world, with more than 20 million copies sold and published in more than 30 countries.
Its novelty, the seventh installment of the Barbarotti series, remains at number 1 in sales since its launch in Sweden.
A fruitful harvest of awards: Nesser’s prolific work has been awarded several of the most recognized awards in crime fiction both in Scandinavia and Europe, including the Glass Key, the European Crime Fiction Star Award, the Gold Paperback Award, the SNCF of France and the Palle Rosenkrantz Prize. In addition, he is the only author to have received the Best Scandinavian Crime Novel awarded by the Swedish Academy of Writers on up to three occasions, and the only one to win the Danish Rosenkrantz-prisen on two occasions.
AN ICONIC CREATION: GUNNAR BARBAROTTI
The protagonist, Inspector Barbarotti, has the aura and charisma of the greatest creations of masters of crime, such as Agatha Christie’s Poirot, Donna Leon’s Brunetti, Domingo Villar’s Leo Caldas or, above all, Commissioner Adamsberg of Fred Vargas.
He shares many ingredients with them: intuitive and soft-mannered, Barbarotti, with an Italian father and a Swedish mother, is a calm and reflective detective, who treads carefully as he debates life, faith and reason. Furthermore, humor is also very present in Barbarotti’s way of seeing life.
THE SERIES:
The series starring Commissioner Barbarotti presents all the ingredients to conquer the many avid readers of crime novel series: emotion, mystery, well-woven plots that take the reader’s breath away, an original setting and a protagonist with a lot of hook.
Like all the volumes that make up the series, the possibility of being read as independent novels is something to take into account. Being self-contained, it does not leave threads that need to be closed in subsequent installments, and it does not reveal enough parts of previous installments to discourage reading it if the reader debuts with this title.
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