Hakan Nesser: The Lonely Ones Tpb W2

It begins in 1969. Six young people arrive in the Swedish city of Uppsala, excited to start their university careers and a new chapter in their lives. Despite the differences between them, three couples form and they become fast friends. But a summer trip through Eastern Europe changes everything. Something so traumatic happens that the friendships can never be the same, and the students will be forever marked by what happened behind the Iron Curtain. Years later, Germund Grooth, a senior lecturer at Lund University, is found dead at the bottom of a gorge in the woods close to Kymlinge. But then a chilling discovery is made. For this is the very same spot where one of the Uppsala students died thirty-five years before, and Inspector Barbarotti realises that Trooth's death is not nearly as simple as it first appeared. Detective Inspector Gunnar Barbarotti takes in this ominous case of history repeating itself, and is forced to confront an increasingly grave reality.