Am conflicted - wonderful characters and great plot, but the delivery and conclusion fell a little short (3.5 stars)My library branch is closing down due to renovations and I found Death Angels as I was raiding the shelves - all in a selfless attempt to help them and make it so that they had less...
Book3, in the Erik Winter seriesThis author is slowly growing on me or is it that I am now becoming more accustomed to his style, a style that is haunting and psychologically shrewd. “Frozen Tracks” is a superbly crafted crime novel, a compelling and dark thriller, definitely the best I have read...
Very enjoyable Swedish mystery - wonderful characters and an interesting plot with great twists and turnsI read my first Åke Edwardson book, Death Angels, a couple of weeks ago, and while I loved the characters and thought the plot was well-done, the delivery of it all and conclusion/explanatio...
Although Edwardson has been on my list of Scandinavian crime authors to read for some time, I had previously put off reading any of his novels because they had been described as rather stringent procedurals, and as a rule, I am not a huge fan of this genre. I understand that meticulous investigat...
A second English translation from another Scandinavian author, Åke Edwardson. This series features Chief Inspector Erik Winter, who must investigate a harrowing case in the midst of a sweltering Gothenburg summer. A nineteen year old girl is raped while walking home from a night out with friends....
I'm a big fan of Scandinavian crime novels and had high expectations from a three-time winner of the Swedish Crime Writers' award. Unfortunately, Sail of Stone disappointed in many ways.While I like a minimalistic style, the writing in this book is too disjointed (perhaps a direct translation fro...
Die Frau im Zimmer Nr. 10 des abgetakelten Hotels zwinkert noch mit ihrem rechten Auge. Aber das hat einzig und allein mit den beiden Elektroden zu tun, die die Ärztin angelegt hat, um über die Muskelreaktionen den Todeszeitpunkt besser bestimmen zu können. Denn die junge Frau, Paula Ney mit Name...
Looked at from the outside, the annual summer camp in the countryside seems idyllic. But for Kenny, a boy with a Samurai soul, it is no more than a prison camp, run by a sadistic woman who is sometimes helped by her salacious son, Christian. To escape the adults, Kenny and his "samurai" friends s...
10 23 What the hell is this all about?” Mario Ney was already out in the stairwell as Winter and Halders were on their way up. Winter could see the two police officers from Frölunda flanking Ney like bodyguards in uniform. “What’s going on?” “Can we go in?” Winter said. Ney turned around abruptly...