The Return

A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Håkan Nesser was awarded the 1993 Swedish Crime Writers’ Academy Prize for new authors with his novel The Wide-Mesh Net; he received the academy’s Best Novel Award in 1994 for Borkmann’s Point and in 1996 for Woman with Birthmark. In 1999, he was awarded the Glass Key Award by the Crime Writers of Scandinavia for the best crime novel of the year, Carambole. His novels have been published to acclaim in nine countries. Nesser was born in 1950 in Sweden, and he now divides his time between Sweden and New York.