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Never End

Åke Edwardson author Laurie Thompson translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:7th Jun '07

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Detective Chief Inspector Erik Winter returns in a hard-boiled murder mystery about the dark and dirty underside of upstanding family life.

Next morning, police come to question Jeanette about her rape, but she has already washed away all traces of the crime.

When a second rape ends in murder, Chief Inspector Erik Winter starts a manhunt for a killer with a very specific method which reminds him of a case from many years ago...

Three-time winner of the Swedish Crime Writers' Award.

While carefree teenagers celebrate the holidays in Gothenburg, tragedy waits to pierce the heady days of summer.

It is late when nineteen-year-old Jeanette bids goodbye to her friends and sets off for home. She takes a shortcut through the park... Next morning, police come to question Jeanette about her rape, but she has already washed away all traces of the crime.

When a second rape ends in murder, Chief Inspector Erik Winter starts a manhunt for a killer with a very specific method which reminds him of a case from many years ago...

Top-class crime fiction... An unerring sense of pace, good tension, more than averagely believable characters and some neat twists * The Times *
It's a chilling story that delves into the sordid underbelly of the city's illegal club nightlife. Edwardson leaves generous space for his detectives' personal lives, with one real shocker -- Daneet Steffens * Time Out *
Åke Edwardson writes great endings... Never End [is] a novel with the most exhilarating final 50 pages in recent crime fiction * The Toronto Star *
This series is a tough, smart, police procedural... and has the same gritty edge and great characters as the best of Ed McBain's 87th Precinct books * The Globe and Mail *

ISBN: 9780099472063

Dimensions: 178mm x 110mm x 25mm

Weight: 217g

400 pages