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A" "brother and sister believe that their father has gone missing.
They think he may have traveled in search of "his "father, who was
presumed lost decades ago in World War II. Meanwhile, there are
reports that a woman is being abused, but she can't be found and
her family won't tell the police where she is. Two missing people
and two very different families combine in this dynamic and
suspenseful mystery by the Swedish master Ake Edwardson.
Gothenburg's Chief Inspector Erik Winter travels to Scotland in
search of the missing man, aided there by an old friend from
Scotland Yard. Back in Gothenburg, Afro-Swedish detective Aneta
Djanali discovers how badly someone doesn't want her to find the
missing woman when she herself is threatened. "Sail of Stone "is a
brilliantly perceptive character study, acutely observed and
skillfully written with an unerring sense of pace.
A YOUNG WOMAN is discovered hanged in a room in a decrepit hotel
with a mysterious note near her body. When Gothenburg's Chief
Inspector Erik Winter investigates, he realizes that it is the same
hotel room that was, twenty years earlier, the last known location
of a woman who disappeared and was never found. The two women seem
to have nothing in common except for this hotel room, but Winter
suspects that there may be other connections--and that both women
might have even fallen prey to the same killer.
"Room No. 10" is a first-rate thriller, suffused with the gray
seaside beauty of Gothenburg and filled with the characters that
Ake Edwardson's readers have come to love: Erik Winter, the
philosophical detective who veers between pes-simism and optimism
but never gives up; Bertil Ringmar, the methodical old-timer whose
analytical mind keeps everyone focused; hot-headed Fredrik Halders,
whose temper sometimes overwhelms his passion for justice; and
Aneta Djanali, an immigrant from Burkina Faso whose ability to talk
to other women can open new leads. As compelling as they are
dedicated, they are an unforgettable team determined to find a
bizarre killer.
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.
From the land of the midnight sun, a compelling and dark thriller
by Sweden's master of crime fiction:
The autumn gloom comes quickly on the Swedish city of Gothenburg,
and for Detective Chief Inspector Erik Winter the days seem even
shorter, the nights bleaker, when he is faced with two apparently
unrelated sets of perplexing crimes. Mysterious assaults on college
students in Gothenburg's parks are carried out in the dark of the
night, while during the day toddlers are abducted from their
nursery schools and quickly returned, seemingly unharmed, before
anyone even notices they are missing.
Investigating these bizarre cases, D.C.I. Winter and his team
follow their scant leads to ?the flats, ? the barren prairies of
rural Sweden, whose wastelands conceal crimes as sinister as the
land itself. Winter must deduce the labyrinthine connections
between the cases before the culprit?or is it culprits closes in on
his own family.
Haunting and psychologically astute, "Frozen Tracks" is another
triumph from the award- winning master of Swedish noir.
The debut thriller in the internationally acclaimed series?
available for the first time in the United States
A long-time number one bestseller in his native Sweden, Ake
Edwardson's profile was conspicuously raised when his novel "Frozen
Tracks" was chosen as a finalist for a 2008 "Los Angeles Times"
Book Prize. Until now, however, the novel that launched Edwardson's
critically acclaimed Erik Winter series has never been available in
the United States. With a new series translator who fully captures
Edwardson's signature atmospheric style, "Death Angels" is
America's introduction to Sweden's youngest Chief Inspector as he
teams up with Scotland Yard to solve the mysterious parallel
killings of young British and Swedish tourists. Richly evocative of
mid-nineties South London and Gothenburg, Sweden, "Death Angels" is
a brilliant opening to a mesmerizing series that has become a
phenomenon in international crime fiction.
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, Ake
Edwardson brings American readers another installment of the smart,
suspenseful, atmospheric series that has won him legions of fans
all over the world.
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