Synopses & Reviews
Detective Erik Winter is back, chasing a copycat murderer in a gritty procedural from one of Europes most popular crime writers
With twelve Erik Winter novels published in countries as diverse as Italy, Norway, France, Japan, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Germanywhere the series has sold more than 700,000 copiesits only a matter of time before an American readership discovers what Europe has already declared: ke Edwardson is a European master of the stylish and gritty crime novel.
In Never End, the second Erik Winter novel to be translated into English, a heat wave is smothering the Swedish coastal city of Gothenburg. School is out, and parks and beaches are teeming with people. But a spate of unsolved rape/murders casts a disturbing shadow on this particular summer. Chief Inspector Erik Winter, now forty-one and a father, assembles the scant but grisly details of the crimes, and begins to see an eerie connection to a five-year-old unsolved rape/murder, a case he, in typically obsessive fashion, has refused to let go cold. Has the same rapist reemerged to taunt the police and flaunt his stolen freedom, or are these copycat crimes? In the absence of any hard leads, and haunted by the case he could not solve, Winter desperately hunts for a link bridging the victims, convinced that each crime holds the key to the others. Someone knows more than they are letting on, and Winter knows they are running out of time. Never End is a chilling, moody novel replete with Hitchcockian depictions of Gothenburgs vibrant summer spaces and seamy dark corners, that will appeal to readers of George Pelecanos andElizabeth George BACKCOVER: Erik Winter] promises to be a superior procedural series.
Booklist
Mystery fans on this side of the Atlantic can be grateful that the travails of Erik Winterare now available in English.This dark police procedural is a topnotch work, suspenseful to the very end, with appealing characters.
Library Journal
A large ration of suspense, as well as that other reason for enjoying mysteries: an intriguing look at life in a distant part of the world.
Chicago Tribune
ke Edwardson is a three-time winner of the Swedish Academy of Crime Writers Award and its easy to see why. He weaves a rich, psychologically satisfying tale. His writing is nuanced and literary, and his characters are deep and fascinating. Readers looking for a gritty, well-paced, thoughtful thriller will appreciate Edwardsons masterful novel.
I Love A Mystery
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"Patrons who enjoy dark, moody crime novels set in foreign locales will want this." Library Journal
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"Edwardson's series is as much about character interaction as it is about story, but he is no slouch at building suspense, and his ability to make the sweltering heat a kind of secondary character as in Hitchcock's Rear Window only adds to the tension." Booklist
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"A large ration of suspense, as well as that other reason for enjoying mysteries: an intriguing look at life in a distant part of the world." Chicago Tribune
Synopsis
A second Erik Winter novel to be translated into English finds the Swedish detective struggling with a local heat wave, the responsibilities of new fatherhood, and a serial murder investigation with possible links to a five-year-old unsolved case. By the author of Sun and Shadow.
Synopsis
Detective Erik Winter is back, chasing a copycat murderer in a gritty procedural from one of Europe's most popular crime writers.
With twelve Erik Winter novels published in countries as diverse as Italy, Norway, France, Japan, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Germany where the series has sold more than 700,000 copies it's only a matter of time before an American readership discovers what Europe has already declared: Ake Edwardson is a European master of the stylish and gritty crime novel.
In Never End, the second Erik Winter novel to be translated into English, a heat wave is smothering the Swedish coastal city of Gothenburg. School is out, and parks and beaches are teeming with people. But a spate of unsolved rape/murders casts a disturbing shadow on this particular summer. Chief Inspector Erik Winter, now forty-one and a father, assembles the scant but grisly details of the crimes, and begins to see an eerie connection to a five-year-old unsolved rape/murder, a case he, in typically obsessive fashion, has refused to let go cold. Has the same rapist reemerged to taunt the police and flaunt his stolen freedom, or are these copycat crimes? In the absence of any hard leads, and haunted by the case he could not solve, Winter desperately hunts for a link bridging the victims, convinced that each crime holds the key to the others. Someone knows more than they are letting on, and Winter knows they are running out of time.
Never End is a chilling, moody novel replete with Hitchcockian depictions of Gothenburg's vibrant summer spaces and seamy dark corners, that will appeal to readers of George Pelecanos and Elizabeth George.
Synopsis
[Erik Winter] promises to be a superior procedural series.
Booklist
Mystery fans on this side of the Atlantic can be grateful that the travails of Erik Winter
are now available in English
.This dark police procedural is a topnotch work, suspenseful to the very end, with appealing characters.
Library Journal
A large ration of suspense, as well as that other reason for enjoying mysteries: an intriguing look at life in a distant part of the world.
Chicago Tribune
Åke Edwardson is a three-time winner of the Swedish Academy of Crime Writers Award and its easy to see why. He weaves a rich, psychologically satisfying tale. His writing is nuanced and literary, and his characters are deep and fascinating.
Readers looking for a gritty, well-paced, thoughtful thriller will appreciate Edwardsons masterful novel.
I Love A Mystery
Synopsis
A gritty, bone-chilling masterpiece from the most acclaimed Scandinavian crime writer since Henning Mankell It's summer in Sweden. As the coastal city of Gothenburg suffers through a heat wave, Chief Inspector Erik Winter broods over a series of unsolved rape-murders. The crimes bear an eerie resemblance to a five-year-old case that the mercurial detective has refused to let go cold. Has the same rapist reemerged to taunt him, or is a copycat at work? And can Winter find a common thread among the victims before there are more of them? With Never End, Åke Edwardson brings American readers another installment of the smart, suspenseful, atmospheric series that has won him legions of fans all over the world.
About the Author
Ake Edwardson is one of Scandinavia's most successful crime writers. He has won numerous awards, including the Swedish Academy of Crime Writers' Award three times.