Hakan Nesser Books in Order
Hakan Nesser has written 21 books, published between 1998 and 2022. The first book is Münsters Fall [German] (1998) and the newest is The Axe Woman (2022). Publication order is the reading order below. 11 of the 21 books listed here are in the Inspector Van Veeteren series, which has its own page: Inspector Van Veeteren books in order.
- Books
- 21
- Published
- 1998–2022
- Confirmed
- 21 of 21 titles
- Pages on record
- 1,687 in 5 of 21 books
Inspector Van Veeteren and Gunnar Barbarotti are the detectives Hakan Nesser returns to across 21 catalogued books published between 1998 and 2022. Nesser, born in 1950, is a Swedish crime novelist and former teacher whose work has been translated into more than twenty languages. The catalogue opens with Munsters Fall (1998) and ends with The Axe Woman (2022); police procedural work, investigation and murder in Sweden run through it. Carambole took the Glass Key award in 2000, and Nesser has won the Best Swedish Crime Novel Award three times.
How many Hakan Nesser books are there?
Hakan Nesser has 21 books, released between 1998 and 2022. They include 2 separate series.
Hakan Nesser Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 21 Hakan Nesser books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.
- 11998–3/4
- 2The Summer of Kim Novak / A Summer of Kim NovakHakan Nesser Standalone Novels #11998 · confirmed 3/41998–3/4
- 32001–3/4
- 420063363/4
- 52007–3/4
- 620073213/4
- 72008–3/4
- 820082773/4
- 92009–3/4
- 102010–3/4
- 112010–3/4
- 1220123053/4
- 132012–3/4
- 142012–3/4
- 152013–3/4
- 162013–3/4
- 172015–3/4
- 1820184483/4
- 192018–3/4
- 202022–3/4
- 212022–3/4
Hakan Nesser series in order
The series linked below has its own reading-order page.
Hakan Nesser books grouped by series
Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.
Gunnar Barbarotti in order
5 booksHakan Nesser Standalone Novels
3 books3 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Hakan Nesser Short Story
1 book1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Hakan Nesser Non-Fiction
1 book1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Hakan Nesser Books in Chronological Order
By publication date, the Hakan Nesser books run from Münsters Fall [German] (1998) to The Axe Woman (2022), the sequence in the table above. The Inspector Van Veeteren series also has a separate in-universe order on record: Inspector Van Veeteren books in chronological order. No other Hakan Nesser story order is on record.
Do you have to read Hakan Nesser books in order?
You only need to read Hakan Nesser books in order within each series: the books listed here span 2 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.
Where to start with Hakan Nesser
Start with Münsters Fall [German] (1998), the first Inspector Van Veeteren book. It is also the earliest catalogued title.
What is the newest Hakan Nesser book?
The Axe Woman (2022) is the newest Hakan Nesser book released so far.
Is there a new Hakan Nesser book coming?
No next Hakan Nesser book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Awards Hakan Nesser has won
Wikidata records 6 awards for Hakan Nesser. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.
- Palle Rosenkrantz Prize2014Won
- Ripper Award2010Won
- Sveriges Radio's Short Story Prize2006Won
- Author of the Year2002Won
- Glass Key award2000Won
- Best Swedish Crime Novel Award1994Won
Hakan Nesser at a glance
- Paused
- No new Hakan Nesser title has appeared for 4 years. The last was published in 2022.
- Release pace
- Hakan Nesser books have appeared about one a year on average.
- Length
- 1,687 pages across the 5 of 21 books with a recorded length, a median of 321 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Hakan Nesser books, 10 of 21, were published in the 2010s.
What the Hakan Nesser books are about
16 of the 21 Hakan Nesser books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: crime is tagged on 7 of 16. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Crime 7 of 16 books
- Mystery & detective, police procedural 7 of 16 books
- Sweden 4 of 16 books
- Investigation 3 of 16 books
- Murder 3 of 16 books
- Mystery & detective 3 of 16 books
- Germanic literature 2 of 16 books
- Police 2 of 16 books
- Suspense 2 of 16 books