Barbarotti is a more upbeat character than Van Veeteren and the books are firmly set in Sweden, although the town of Kymlinge is fictitious and named after an "abandoned tube station" in Stockholm.
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A recurring main character is called Van Veeteren, a detective in the early novels and later the owner of an antique books shop.
Woman with Birthmark (Kvinna med födelsemärke) is a 1996 novel by Håkan Nesser, which won the Best Swedish Crime Novel Award in the same year.
Håkan Syrén | Hakan Şükür | Håkan Hellström | Hakan Hardenberger | Håkan Hagegård | Fikret Hakan | Ahmet Hakan Coşkun | İhsan Hakan | Håkan Rosengren | Håkan Nesser | Nesser Brothers | Håkan Södergren | Håkan Nyblom | Håkan Mild | Håkan Larsson | Hakan Koç | Håkan Hardenberger | Hakan Gökçek | Al Nesser |