Ake Edwardson, Author , trans. from the Swedish by Laurie Thompson. Viking $23.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-670-03415-4
Cars from Sweden are known for being dependable and safe, but like this American debut from a celebrated Scandinavian crime writer, their stolid lines don't necessarily spark excitement. Erik Winter, a jazz-loving, gourmet-cooking detective, is...
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Ake Edwardson, Author , trans. from the Swedish by Laurie Thompson. Viking $25.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-670-06323-9
The reader stays perpetually ahead of the irritatingly slow detectives in Swedish crime writer Edwardson's third Erik Winter police procedural to be translated into English (after 2006's Never End
). DCI Erik Winter and his team are...
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Åke Edwardson, trans. from the Swedish by Rachel Willson-Broyles. Simon & Schuster, $15 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-4516-0850-2
Two amorphous mysteries slowly take shape in Edwardson’s fifth novel featuring Chief Insp. Erik Winter of the Gothenburg police (after 2007’s Frozen Tracks). When Axel Osvald, whose daughter Winter was once involved with, disappears in Scotland...
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Åke Edwardson, trans. from the Swedish by Per Carlsson, Penguin, $15 paper (352p) ISBN 978-0-14-311794-0
Near the start of Edwardson's solid fifth novel featuring Insp. Erik Winter to be made available in the U.S. (after 2009's Death Angels), a fellow homicide detective of foreign background, Aneta Djanali, gets her jaw smashed when she intervenes in...
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Ake Edwardson, trans. from the Swedish by Per Carlsson. Amazon/Skyscape, $17.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-4778-1654-7
This dark and gritty coming-of-age thriller is crime novelist Edwardson's YA debut. Trapped in a Swedish summer camp run by sadistic adults, where the conditions are horrible and the food is almost inedible, 12-year-old Kenny copes by adopting the...
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Ake Edwardson, Author, Ken Schubert, Translator , trans. from the Swedish by Ken Schubert. Penguin $15 (297p) ISBN 978-0-14311-609-7
Edwardson's middling fourth police procedural to be made available in the U.S. (after 2007's Frozen Tracks
) lacks the sophisticated plot and characters that mark the work of such other Swedish crime authors as Helene Tursten and Stieg...
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