WRITER

Håkan Nesser

1950 - Today

Håkan Nesser

Håkan Nesser (born 21 February 1950) is a Swedish author and teacher who mainly writes crime fiction. He has won Best Swedish Crime Novel Award three times, and his novel Carambole won the prestigious Glass Key award in 2000. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Håkan Nesser has received more than 195,963 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Håkan Nesser is the 1,730th most popular writer (down from 1,491st in 2019), the 264th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 225th in 2019) and the 20th most popular Swedish Writer.

Memorability Metrics

200k
Page Views (PV)
57.32
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
22
Languages Editions (L)
7.00
Effective Languages (L*)
1.81
Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Grovmaskiga nätet

Mystery, Fiction, Inspector Van Veeteren (Fictitious character)

The highly anticipated first novel in the Inspector Van Veeteren series in now available in English. At last, American readers will be able to enjoy, from its very beginnings, this addictive series by one of Europe's most beloved and best-selling crime writers.Chief Inspector Van Veeteren knew that murder cases were never as open-and-shut as this one: Janek Mitter woke one morning with a brutal hangover and discovered his wife of three months lying facedown in the bathtub, dead. With only the flimsiest excuse as his defense, he is found guilty of a drunken crime of passion and imprisoned in a mental institution.But Van Veeteren's suspicions about the identity of the killer are borne out when Mitter also becomes a murder victim. Now the chief inspector launches a full-scale investigation of the two slayings. But it may only be the unspoken secrets of the dead--revealed in a mysterious letter that Mitter wrote shortly before his death--that will finally allow Van Veeteren to unmask the killer and expose the shocking root of this sordid violence.From the Hardcover edition.

2008

Carambole

1999

Svalan, katten, rosen, döden

2001

Münsters Fall

1998

The return (Återkomsten)

Detective and mystery stories

2007

Woman with a birthmark

Mystery, Murder, Police

A mother's dying wish sealed with a deadly promise. Four men with a secret they thought they'd buried decades ago. A detective in love. A man desperate to live despite the shadow of his guilty past.After hearing her mother's deathbed confession and following the dreary funeral, Maria Adler realizes she has no other option but to seize upon her mother's imperative to do something. Dissolving the life she loathes, Maria changes her appearance and disappears. When she emerges, revenge is her sole occupation. Inspector Van Veeteren and his associates are left bewildered by the curious murder of a man shot twice in the heart and twice below the belt. He was a quiet, utterly dull man, and the only suspicious activity his surviving wife can recall is a series of peculiar phone calls. Repeatedly the telephone would ring, offering nothing but the words of an obscure pop song from the 1960s. This siren song is linked to an identical murder, but the true link between these heinous crimes remains unknown, while a daughter's pride grows with the satisfaction of vengeance and another detective's lover offers telling insights that only an outsider could deduce.With the critical eye and cool observation necessary for a successful chess match, Van Veeteren pursues his subject across the country, wading through outrageous leads and fruitless tips. A breathless thriller full of deception, blackmail, and cold murder, Woman with Birthmark is a chilling read.From the Hardcover edition.

2009

Page views of Håkan Nessers by language

Over the past year Håkan Nesser has had the most page views in the German wikipedia edition with 36,799 views, followed by Swedish (34,874), and English (15,319). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Estonian (111.50%), Norwegian (Nynorsk) (68.13%), and Japanese (38.46%)