Followihg an illicit rendezvous with a married colleague, Klausen, a doctor, drives off into the night and, his concentration addled by infatuation, hits and kills a child. Klausen flees the scene. Soon afterwards, he receives a blackmail letter. When a handover of money is arranged, Klausen lies in wait for the supposed blackmailer and kills him in a struggle. The dead man is the son of chief inspector Van Veeteren, who had high hopes for his criminal son’s successful re-integration into bourgeois society. Van Veeteren swears to track down his son’s murderer. At the same time, Klausen receives a second blackmail letter. … Swedish author Håkan Nesser is currently one of Scandinavia's most successful crime writers. Six Van Veeteren thrillers have recently been filmed in Sweden as international co-productions, starring renowned stage and screen actor Sven Wollter as the idiosyncratic master detective. “Carambole” is being shown as an exclusive preview at the Nordic Film Days before the series is broadcast by ARD in spring 2007.