Ake Edwardson

Its 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, ke Edwardson brings American readers another installment of the smart, suspenseful, atmospheric series that has won him legions of fans all over the world.

Detective Chief inspector Erik Winter returns in a hard-boiled murder mystery about the dark and dirty underside of upstanding family life

It's August and the annual Gothenburg Party is in full swing But this year the bacchanalian blowout is simmering with ethnic discord spurred by nativist gangs When a woman is found murdered in the park-her identity as inscrutable as the blood-red symbol on the tree above her body-Winter's search for her missing child leads him from sleek McMansions to the Gothenburg fringes, where "northern suburbs" is code for "outsider" and the past is inescapable-even for Sweden's youngest chief inspector...

Erik Winter is the youngest chief inspector in Sweden; he wears sharp suits, cooks gourmet meals, has a penchant for jazz, and is about to become a father. But he has his share of troubles too; a bloody double murder on his doorstep is only the beginning. As "Sun and Shadow" opens a couple entertains a stranger in their apartment in GAteborg, but this particular illicit rendezvous will prove to be their last. What greets Chief Inspector Winter and his team when they arrive appears as a stage setting, grotesquely symbolic in its composition. While Winter trawls ads in menas magazines in search of the missing party guest, a trail from the clues left by the killer leads into the cult world of the gothicaa riddle of nightmares, of good versus evil, of sun and shadow. When the investigation unearths a possible link between the murders and the police force, even friendly faces are not to be trusted. And when the killer strikes again, possibly closer to home, Winter is in a race against time before someone he loves gets hurt. Like his fellow countryman Henning Mankell, Ake Edwardson is a brilliant discovery for lovers of intricate, psychologically charged and stylish crime novels, and "Sun and Shadow" promises to be the seasonas most exciting crime debut.

Dein Mann liebt dich. Eure Kinder. Er ist erfolgreich, und ihr habt ein schones Leben. Doch eine Nachricht verandert alles. Ein alter Freund glaubt, dass dein Mann ihm noch etwas schuldet. Und das fordert er jetzt ein. Weil du ihn liebst, gehst du mit ihm auf diese todliche Mission. Doch wer ist der Mann an deiner Seite? Der neue Thriller von ke Edwardson fuhrt einen scheinbar unbescholtenen Mann zuruck nach Andalusien in seine terroristische Vergangenheit.

Las sucesivas apariciones de cadáveres de jóvenes suecos, en habitaciones de hoteles de Londres y Gotemburgo, reúnen en la investigación a dos policías atípicos: el sueco Erik Winter, que viste Armani y camisas compradas en Jermyn Street, adora a John Coltrane, el fútbol, los puros y la cerveza, y su colega londinense Steve McDonald, rockero con coleta y gafas oscuras, que no se separa de su cazadora de cuero. ¿Qué lleva a alguien a torturar a muchachos dejando en el suelo los rastros de lo que parece un baile macabro con la sangre de las víctimas? ¿Es posible que tales escenas estén siendo filmadas para nutrir de películas snuff el insaciable mercado pornográfico? Bailar con un ángel,novela negra de intriga psicológica y llena de suspense, aborda el tema de la degradación de las grandes urbes y su influencia sobre el desasosiego y la alienación, sobre la violencia y el crimen.