Åke Edwardson
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Category: Fiction
Åke Edwardson
Åke Edwardson (b. 1953) is a pioneer and central figure in the Swedish detective fiction scene. His crime novels have won the Swedish Crime Writers’ Academy Award for best crime novel. Edwardson’s books have sold over seven million copies in 27 languages. With Treblinka Comedy Club he moves away from crime novels and embraces the literary scene with renewed vigor.
Books by Åke Edwardson
Treblinka Comedy Club
Åke Edwardson
A new literary novel by a pioneer and central figure in the Swedish detective scene.1941.Hatred is rapidly spreading across Europe, seeping into people’s minds through cracks and crannies. The German Reich is well on the rise and fear of what’s to co…
Frozen Tracks
Åke Edwardson
Three local police districts in Gothenburg receive reports that young children have been approached by an unknown person. No crimes appear to have been committed, so the reports are shelved until a four-year-old boy is abducted from a playground and…
The Thirteenth Case
Åke Edwardson
The three-time winner of the Swedish Crime Writers’ Award is back with long-awaited return of Winter series.THE THIRTEENTH CASE is the celebrated return of the beloved Detective Inspector Erik Winter, who on his way home from visiting his family in M…
The Last Winter
Åke Edwardson
It is December in Gothenburg. A police squad is called to an apartment in Vasastan after an emergency call. They find a man in severe shock. His partner lies dead in the double bed. It is likely that he is the perpetrator. Within a few days, an ident…
Near Death
Åke Edwardson
In 1975, a 15-year-old girl disappears from a summer camp on Brännö. She is never found. Thirty years later, strange things begin to happen to a few seemingly ordinary men in Gothenburg. One of them is brutally murdered. The investigation proves diff…
Promised Land
Åke Edwardson
Three men are murdered in a convenience store in a suburb of Gothenburg. Their faces are blown away. Detective Inspector Erik Winter is faced with one of his most difficult cases. Was it drugs? Refugee smuggling? Or something even worse? No one seems…
Room No. 10
Åke Edwardson
A young woman is found hanged in a shabby hotel room in Gothenburg. Although she left behind an indecipherable suicide note, most evidence suggests that she was murdered. Erik Winter is called to the scene and realises that he has been there before,…
Sails of Stone
Åke Edwardson
Sometime during World War II, Swedish fisherman John Osvald mysteriously disappears on a trawler off the Scottish coast. Now, sixty years later, his son Axel also seems to have disappeared during a trip to Scotland. After being contacted by Axel’s wo…
Never End
Åke Edwardson
It is an unusually hot summer in Gothenburg when a young woman is found murdered in one of the city’s parks. Is her death connected to the unsolved murder of a young woman five years ago? Detective Inspector Erik Winter retraces the old investigation…
Sun and Shadow
Åke Edwardson
Detective Inspector Erik Winter is on the Spanish coast, where his father is critically ill. The painful days in sunny Marbella give Winter time to reflect on the future – in three months, a new millennium will dawn and he himself is facing major cha…
Dance With an Angel
Åke Edwardson
A young Swedish man is found murdered in a plain hotel room in south London. Shortly afterwards, a similar murder takes place in Gothenburg. The crimes appear to be connected. As Detective Inspector Erik Winter takes on the case, it is revealed that…
A Distant Cry
Åke Edwardson
Detective Inspector Erik Winter’s holiday comes to an abrupt end at four o’clock on a warm morning in late summer. A young woman is found murdered by a lake outside of Gothenburg. The woman cannot be identified. She has no name and no one seems to be…
Marconi Park
Åke Edwardson
Spring is in the air in Gothenburg, and Erik Winter feels his spirits lift as the days grow longer. But time catches up with him, as it always does. Early one morning, he stands in a dull light under a dull sky, looking down at the body of a man who…
House at the Edge of the World
Åke Edwardson
After ten novels featuring Detective Inspector Erik Winter, Åke Edwardson left him lying at the bottom of a swimming pool in a tourist resort in Spain, Nueva Andalucía. We didn’t know if he was dead or alive. But now we know. Erik Winter survived, bu…
