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2	[[caption-width-right:300: [[{{Epigraph}} "My whole life I've been longing for a place like this"]].]]
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4	->''"Life will never get better than this. Never better than this."''
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6	''Berättelse om herr Roos'' ("The story about Mr Roos") is a crime novel written by [[Creator/HakanNesser Håkan Nesser]] in 2008 and the third book in ''Literature/TheBarbarottiSeries''.
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8	Valdemar Roos, almost 60 years old, seems like a boring person. He is unhappily married to Alice and works for 20 years for the same company and awaits nothing more eagerly than a change in his boring life. One day, he wins almost 2 million SEK playing pools, but instead of telling somebody about it, he quits his hated job and buys "Lograna", a cabin deep in the woods, and starts a second life, pretending to his family that he goes to his job every morning.
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10	He spends his days simply enjoying life and taking walks. Meanwhile, a young woman called Anna runs away from a drug withdrawal home after being mistreated, and runs into Valdemar and his cabin while looking for a shelter. At first, Anna is timid and avoids meeting Valdemar personally, but after some time the two get to know each other better and become friends.
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12	Soon after though, Anna's brutal ex-boyfriend Steffo manages to track Anna and attacks her, whereby Steffo gets killed by either Anna or Valdemar. From now on, Inspector Gunnar Barbarotti has to investigate this crime.
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16	!!Tropes:
17	* AlcoholicParent: Anna's father died from drinking, and her mother seems to have become an alcoholic too.
18	* ArcWords: "Aldrig bättre än såhär."[[note]]"Never better than this."[[/note]]
19	* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Wilma and Signe, Valdemar's stepdaughters.
20	* CharacterTitle: "Berättelse om herr Roos"
21	* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: Valdemar, before he wins the money.
22	* DetectiveFiction: The second half is from Barbarotti's point of view.
23	* DomesticAbuser: Steffo was this to Anna.
24	-->'''Steffo:''' You're mine. Never forget that you are Steffo's now.
25	* GamblersFallacy: Valdemar has been playing pools for ''years'' with the ''same'' numbers before finally winning 1 954 120kr.
26	* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler: Valdemar at the end. Though it is left open at the end of this book and is only revealed some books later when Barbarotti runs into Anna and she tells him that Valdemar actually is alive.]]
27	* LackOfEmpathy: Averted with Steffo. Steffo once told Anna from a session at a psychotherapist; and that the psychotherapist told Steffo that children who abuse animals don't understand that the animals feel pain and that some people will never understand that, even later in life, and that she hopes that Steffo is not one of these people. Steffo then told her that he isn't, because when he once [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals broke the wings of his sister's canary bird]], he actually ''did'' understand that the bird was feeling pain and ''enjoyed'' it. Anna is understandingly disgusted and terrified after hearing this.
28	* LonersAreFreaks: Both Valdemar and Anna are seen this way by other characters.
29	* RecoveredAddict: Anna is a former heroine addict.
30	* ReverseWhodunnit: The reader knows why Steffo is dead and why Valdemar and Anna are on the run, but the police doesn't until the end.
31	* SecondLove: Alice was this to Valdemar.
32	* TakeThisJobAndShoveIt: One of the first things Valdemar does after winning the money is quitting after working for 28 years for ''Wringmans Elektriska''.
33	* TearsOfJoy: Valdemar, when he first sees Lograna and immediately falls in love with the place.
34	* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: It's never told in which country the fictional city of Maardam is. Sometimes it is even assumed that it is in a fictional country.
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