Their lives would be irrevocably altered by a visit to the other side of the Iron Curtain. Beginning in 1969. Arrival of six young individuals in Uppsala, Sweden. The three young couples are brought together over a number of years as a result of various events, and they eventually become friends. Though a summer excursion to Eastern Europe alters everything, it also marks the end of something else when their time at Uppsala University comes to an end. Years later, the body of a lecturer from the University of Lund is discovered at the base of a cliff in some forests not far from Kymlinge. And, horrifyingly, it's right where one of the Uppsala students perished 35 years earlier. 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 H?kan Nesser?s quintet about Inspector Gunnar Barbarotti.