Frozen Tracks

Another chilling Erik Winter thriller from award-winning master of Swedish crime, Åke Edwardson.

Accomplished...Ewardson shows his skill both in the succinctly characterised coppers and a nicely labyrinthine plot...the narrative has all the fastidious craft of the best crime writing

Edwardson's style... reminded me of P D James or Ruth Rendell

Åke Edwardson's series about a colourful, troubled young detective provide a large ration of suspense

ÅKE EDWARDSON was born in 1953. He has worked as a journalist and as a press officer for the UN, and has written books on journalism and creative writing. He was also a lecturer at Gothenburg University. Now a best-selling author of detective fiction, he has on three occasions been awarded the Swedish Crime Writers' Award for best crime novel.

It's autumn in Gothenburg and an anxious mother calls the police: her little boy was lured into a car by a man offering sweets. The child is returned unharmed but then the same thing happens with a little girl, and then another. Each child attends a different nursery, and each parent contacts a different police station, so, at first, no connection is established and the reports are filed and then forgotten. 
 
Meanwhile DCI Winter is investigating a series of random attacks on strangely uncooperative university students, but when a a four-year-old boy is abducted and found injured, the forgotten files resurface and a link between the stories becomes apparent. As Gothenburg prepares for Christmas, Winter is in a race against time to prevent a horrific catastrophe.

Sun And Shadow

Meet Erik Winter: not a stereotypically glum detective. 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.

On a par with PD James... Edwardson is dazzlingly clever

A very pleasing mixture of police procedure and urban-domestic saga

Åke Edwardson was born in 1953. He has worked as a journalist and a press officer for the UN and has written books on journalism and creative writing. Now a best-selling author of detective fiction, he is also a professor at the Gothenburg University. He has on three occasions been awarded the Swedish Crime Writers' Award for best Crime novel.

From the three-time winner of the Swedish Crime Writers' Award. 
 
A couple are found murdered in their flat in Gothenburg, their bodies symbolically arranged in a mysterious and grotesque fashion. As Winter follows the trail of clues into the cult world of the gothic, he becomes enmeshed in a riddle of nightmares, where he must untangle good from evil and sun from shadow.

Åke Edwardson

Laurie Thompson

Top-class crime fiction... An unerring sense of pace, good tension, more than averagely believable characters and some neat twists

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

Åke Edwardson writes great endings... Never End [is] a novel with the most exhilarating final 50 pages in recent crime fiction

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

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...

Åke Edwardson

Praise for Never End

Top-class crime fiction... An unerring sense of pace, good tension, more than averagely believable characters and some neat twists

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

Åke Edwardson writes great endings... Never End [is] a novel with the most exhilarating final 50 pages in recent crime fiction

Top-class crime fiction... An unerring sense of pace, good tension, more than averagely believable characters and some neat twists

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

Åke Edwardson writes great endings... Never End [is] a novel with the most exhilarating final 50 pages in recent crime fiction

Top-class crime fiction... An unerring sense of pace, good tension, more than averagely believable characters and some neat twists

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

Åke Edwardson writes great endings... Never End [is] a novel with the most exhilarating final 50 pages in recent crime fiction

Books by Åke Edwardson

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