Hakan Nesser

Hakan Nesser is a well known Swedish author and a teacher by profession, who has written a number of successful novels in the Mystery and Thriller genres. His novels, mostly depict crime fiction plots and have been quite popular all over the world. The successful writing career of Nesser can be understood from the fact that he has won the Best Swedish Crime Novel Award for 3 times in his career.

The best place to start is the Inspector Van Veeteren series, the earliest of Hakan Nesser's multi-book series: it opens with Münsters Fall [German] (1998) and runs to 11 books across 1998–2013, ending with The Strangler's Honeymoon (2013). Hakan Nesser's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Hakan Nesser has 22 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1998 and 2022. 16 of them belong to 2 named series — the largest being the Inspector Van Veeteren series with 11 books — and 6 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Hakan Nesser's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Inspector Van Veeteren (1998–2013, 11 books) and Gunnar Barbarotti (2001–2022, 5 books).

This guide splits Hakan Nesser's 22 books into 2 named series and 6 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Inspector Van Veeteren (11 books, 1998–2013); Gunnar Barbarotti (5 books, 2001–2022).