The Lonely Ones

The Lonely Ones is a Nordic Noir novel that follows the lives of six young people who arrive in Uppsala, Sweden in 1969. A summer trip to Eastern Europe changes their lives, and when they return to Uppsala, a lecturer is found dead at the same spot where one of the students died thirty-five years before. Detective Inspector Gunnar Barbarotti is forced to confront an increasingly grave reality.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 608 pages
Publication date: 01 September 2022
Publisher: Pan Macmillan

‘One of the best Nordic Noir writers - Guardian
A trip behind the Iron Curtain would change their lives forever. . . .

It begins in 1969. Six young people arrive in Uppsala, Sweden. Different circumstances push the three young couples together and, over the course of a few years, they become friends. But a summer trip through Eastern Europe changes everything, and when their time at Uppsala University is over, it also signals the end of something else.

Years later, a lecturer at Lund University is found dead at the bottom of a cliff in the woods close to Kymlinge. And chillingly, it is the very same spot where one of the Uppsala students died thirty-five years before.

Detective Inspector Gunnar Barbarotti takes on this ominous case of history repeating itself, and is forced to confront an increasingly grave reality.

The Lonely Ones

is the fourth novel of Håkan Nessers quintet about Inspector Gunnar Barbarotti.

Weight: 424g
Dimension: 130 x 198 x 40 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781509892303