Håkan Nesser (Writer)

Timeshift

Documentary series which ranges widely over Britain's social and cultural history, its narrative-led storytelling offering a richly immersive and varied window onto the past.

Release Date2002-10-10

Charactersd self

Episode Count1

Vote Count5

Erlesen

Release Date2010-11-03

Charactersd self

Episode Count1

Svalan, katten, rosen, döden

Münster stumbles upon the body of a young woman who has been strangled in her home and surprises the killer, who is still at the scene. The killer flees, but an unusual book is found at the scene, dedicated to the killer. When another victim is found, Van Veeteren's literary expertise is put to the test when it becomes clear that they are dealing with a serial killer who chooses his victims based on the names of characters from 19th-century crime novels. What will be the name of the next victim?

Release Date2006-06-14

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count10

Inspektor Barbarotti - Mensch ohne Hund

Inspector Gunnar Barbarotti has no increased desire for the grueling meeting with his ex-wife. The curious case, which he urgently needs to take on, is just right for the Italo-Swedes: after a birthday party in the idyllic town of Kymlinge, two members of the Hermanssons are missing. One is the black sheep of the family, a hapless aesthetic who achieved notoriety as "Wichs-Walter" after a lewd TV appearance in a jungle camp.

Release Date2010-01-11

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count3

Intrigo: Samaria

Nineteen-year-old Vera Kall cycles home through the night. She arrives at a farm, leaves her bike and sneaks quietly in through the door. She enters the kitchen and doesn't even have time to notice that she's not alone.

Release Date2019-10-10

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count40

Intrigo: Dear Agnes

What is a human life worth? How is it possible that a woman like Agnes could agree to kill another human being? Is it the money? Or are there other forces at play?

Release Date2019-10-10

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count28

Och Piccadilly Circus ligger inte i Kumla

In the summer of 1967, Kumla is shaken by a shocking event. That summer, the life of 17-year-old Mauritz life will also change. He begins a fumbling romance with the girl next door, but through music he longs to leave the small town and see the world.

Release Date2014-04-11

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count1

Kvinna med födelsemärke

Release Date2001-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count2

Unmoored

A Swedish TV presenter finally confronts her domineering husband about serious accusations made against him, causing her well-ordered life to unravel.

Release Date2024-12-13

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count5

Münsters fall

When the body of a wealthy wine merchant washes up on a beach with multiple stab wounds, police fear a media frenzy. But the quick arrest of the man's former partner in the face of damning evidence promises a quick resolution to the case.

Release Date2005-12-14

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count5

The Last Will

To fulfill the last will of his mother, the young JAKOB ADLER needs to meet his biological father, who is inmate of a forensic psychiatric hospital for murdering his own brother for over 25 years. Jakob wants to talk to the doctor in charge DR WEISS before and unfolds the true scale of the tragedy that happened long time ago.

Release Date2014-10-23

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Vote Count2

Inspektor Barbarotti - Verachtung

Shortly after Swedish police detective Gunnar Barbarotti receives at home an anonymous letter during his holiday announcing the murder of some Anna, the bloodily stabbed corpse of Anna Palme is found. It's the first of a few murders with clues ahead, one naming Gunnar as mark. Barbarotti lists 60 possible vindictive persons from his past. Considering some of them proves dangerous, but probably futile as he stumbles onto the twins Kalle and Ole Borg's family intrigue.

Release Date2011-04-14

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count2

Carambole

Carambole is the story of a doctor, in love and happy, who one rainy night accidentally hits a young boy with his car and drives away when he sees the boy is dead. Some days later he receives a letter telling him that someone knows what he did, and want money for his silence. And after that it just gets messier for the good doctor...

Release Date2005-08-19

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count7

Kim Novak Never Swam in Genesaret's Lake

14-year old Erik gets sent to live with his older brother, Henry, during the summer as his mother is dying in cancer. Henry starts dating Ewa, who is married to Berra. A few days after Ewa shows up battered and bruised from an altercation with Berra, he is found dead on a nearby parking lot.

Release Date2005-09-23

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count43

Intrigo: Death of an Author

A young author comes into possession of a manuscript sent by critically acclaimed writer, Germund Rein, shortly before he commits suicide.

Release Date2018-10-11

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count58

Moreno and the Silence

When a girl is murdered soon after leaving a closed religious community, Moreno faces a difficult investigation as the community closes ranks and refuses to cooperate. When another girl is abducted and her bloody fingernails mailed to the police, tongues begin to loosen.

Release Date2006-05-03

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count6

Det grovmaskiga nätet

Release Date2000-01-02

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count4

Återkomsten

On a quiet spring morning, a man leaves prison after spending most of his adult life there. The man has been convicted of murder, not once but twice. Now he has served his sentence for the most recent murder and takes the bus home to his small community. But is everything forgotten and forgiven? A year later, a mutilated corpse is found... Inspector Van Veeteren is confronted with a bizarre and terrifying human fate and a brutal murder where all clues lead back and where questions of justice and punishment are brought to a head.

Release Date2001-03-16

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Episode Count3

Vote Count1

Fallet G

The daughter of a murdered private detective comes to Van Veeteren for help with a case that might be linked to Van Veeteren's only unsolved case.

Release Date2006-07-12

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count8

Kvinna med födelsemärke

The Van Veeteren films are based on Håkan Nesser's best-selling novels. Set in the fictional northern European city of Maardam, they follow retired police commissioner Van Veeteren Wollter and his two protégés, detectives Münster Hanzon and Moreno Rexed.

Release Date2001-04-06

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Borkmann's Point

Van Veeteren finds retiring from the police force is easier said than done when two decapitated bodies are found in quick succession. The matching MO in the two grisly murders brings the investigation teams of Maardam and Kaalbringen together - a collaboration that is not without its problems.

Release Date2005-12-14

DepartmentWriting

JobAuthor

Vote Count6