Top-class crime fiction... An unerring sense of pace, good tension, more than averagely believable characters and some neat twists
The Times
It's a chilling story that delves into the sordid underbelly of the city's illegal club nightlife. Edwardson leaves generous space for his detectives' personal lives, with one real shocker
- Daneet Steffens, Time Out
Åke Edwardson writes great endings...<i> Never End</i> [is] a novel with the most exhilarating final 50 pages in recent crime fiction
The Toronto Star
This series is a tough, smart, police procedural... and has the same gritty edge and great characters as the best of Ed McBain's 87th Precinct books
The Globe and Mail
Three-time winner of the Swedish Crime Writers' Award.
While carefree teenagers celebrate the holidays in Gothenburg, tragedy waits to pierce the heady days of summer.
It is late when nineteen-year-old Jeanette bids goodbye to her friends and sets off for home. She takes a shortcut through the park... 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...
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...