The Root of Evil

<p><b>Håkan Nesser, </b><b>'the Godfather of Swedish Crime' (<i>Metro), </i>is back with the second installment in the Inspector Barbarotti series, <i>The Root of Evil.</i></b></p><p><b>*Shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association's International Dagger *</b><br><b></b><br>July 2007. A letter arrives on Inspector Barbarotti’s doorstep detailing a murder that is about to take place in his quiet Swedish town. By the time the police track down the subject of the letter, he is already dead.</p><p> So when a second letter arrives, then a third, and a fourth, it’s a game of cat and mouse to stop the killer before he can make good on all of his promises.</p><p> Meanwhile, an anonymous diary is unearthed depicting the incidents of a two week holiday in France five years earlier, and it doesn’t take Barbarotti long to realize the