The Dirty River
The Dirty River
Åke EdwardsonThe critically acclaimed suspense series from best-selling author Åke Edwardson comes to a close with a new case for Erik Winter
Detective Inspector Erik Winter and his trusted partner Bertil Ringmar are faced with an unusually difficult case, when several young women are attacked and mutilated at night in Gothenburg. The crimes resemble incidents that took place seven years earlier, but the perpetrator was never caught. In the middle of the investigation, Ringmar – who fears the aging that is starting to catch up to him – has to leave for Kuala Lumpur, where his son Martin, who works as a chef at the luxury hotel Shangri-La, has been reported missing. Soon, Bertil needs Erik’s help on the ground.
The Dirty River is the 14th instalment in the series about Erik Winter. Over the years, the series has been praised as one of the foremost in the genre, where Edwardson’s stylistic flair makes the novels stand out. An excellent plotter, each new case is as thrilling as the last, the dialogue is sharp and the characters and settings are ceaselessly intriguing. Each story is anchored by the complicated and brilliant Erik Winter, and heightened by Edwardson’s unique and impressive use of language.
After his success with the historical novel Treblinka Comedy Club, Edwardson returns to the crime genre with Winter’s final case. The result is elusively enigmatic and linguistically exquisite suspense from a master of the genre.
