Investigating a series of assaults and child abductions in the bleak autumn days outside Sweden's rural Gothenburg, Detective Inspector Erik Winter races against time to discover a link between the cases when his own family's safety is threatened. By the author of Sun and Shadow.
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About the Author:
Ã...ke Edwardson has won the Swedish Academy of Crime Writers Award three times. His twelve Erik Winter novels have been published in twenty-one countries.
From Booklist:
Christmas is fast approaching, but life is anything but festive for Detective Chief Inspector Erik Winter. Days of dwindling daylight find the Swedish detective haunted by two puzzling—and seemingly unconnected—sets of crimes. Several university students have been viciously attacked at various points around the city. At the same time, children are being abducted from metropolitan nurseries, a situation that hits much too close to home for Winter, who dotes on the young daughter he shares with longtime live-in lover Angela. Leads followed by Winter and his colleagues take them to the parched prairies of rural Sweden, whose inhabitants are every bit as bleak and desperate as the landscape. Something sinister has happened out here, Winter tells his partner. He can feel it in his bones. Though his police procedurals lack the suspense of fellow Swede Asa Larsson's, Edwardson (Sun and Shadow, 2005) creates endlessly interesting characters, in particular Winter, who tackles crime after crime with a shrewd mind and a heavy heart. Recommend this one to readers of Henning Mankell. Block, Allison
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- PublisherViking Adult
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0670063231
- ISBN 13 9780670063239
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages384
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