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Åke Edwardson

    March 10, 1953

    Åke Edwardson is a Swedish author of detective fiction, whose novels are often set in the city of Gothenburg. His literary work is characterized by a deep dive into human psychology and social issues, intertwined with suspenseful crime plots. His unique style and masterful atmosphere building have earned him critical and reader acclaim.

    Åke Edwardson
    Winterdunkel
    Sun and Shadow
    Sail of Stone
    Tanz mit dem Engel.
    The Shadow Woman
    Never End
    • 2012

      Sail of Stone

      • 416 pages
      • 15 hours of reading
      3.5(656)Add rating

      A gripping missing person case unfolds as Chief Inspector Erik Winter investigates the disappearance of a father, believed to be searching for his own father, lost during World War II. Teaming up with an old friend from Scotland Yard, Winter travels to Scotland, navigating through the complexities of family ties and historical secrets. The journey promises to uncover not only the truth about the missing man but also the deeper connections between past and present.

      Sail of Stone
    • 2010

      The Shadow Woman

      The Shadow Woman: A Chief Inspector Erik Winter Novel

      • 352 pages
      • 13 hours of reading
      3.8(1311)Add rating

      The second installment of the internationally best selling Erik Winter series 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. Psychologically gripping and socially astute, The Shadow Woman puts this master of Swedish noir on track to build an American audience on par with his international fame.

      The Shadow Woman
    • 2007

      Never End

      • 400 pages
      • 14 hours of reading
      3.6(41)Add rating

      Three-time winner of the Swedish Crime Writers' Award. Next morning, police come to question Jeanette about her rape, but she has already washed away all traces of the crime.When a second rape ends in murder, Chief Inspector Erik Winter starts a manhunt for a killer with a very specific method which reminds him of a case from many years ago...

      Never End
    • 2006

      Sun and Shadow

      • 512 pages
      • 18 hours of reading
      3.4(147)Add rating

      A couple entertain a stranger in their Gothenburg flat, but his choice of death metal music isn't quite what they had in mind - this particular illicit rendezvous will be their last. What greets Chief Inspector Erik Winter and his team when they arrive appears as a stage setting, grotesquely symbolic in its composition. This translation originally.

      Sun and Shadow
    • 2002

      A first installment of a popular international series introduces a young Swedish chief inspector who teams up with Scotland Yard to solve the mysterious parallel killings of young British and Swedish tourists. By the Los Angeles Times Book Prize-finalist author of Frozen Tracks. Original.

      Tanz mit dem Engel.