Sun and Shadow: An Erik Winter Novel - Hardcover

Edwardson, Ake

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670034150 ISBN 13: 9780670034154

Publisher: Viking Adult, 2005

Synopsis

Enjoying a satisfying family life and career as Sweden's youngest chief inspector, Erik Winter faces a daunting case involving a double murder and a suspect with possible links to the gothic world and the local police force. 20,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

Ake Edwardson is one of ScandinaviaÂ’s most successful crime writers. He has won numerous awards, including the Swedish Academy of Crime WritersÂ’ Award three times.

From Publishers Weekly:

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 a blaze of color amid the drab postwar apartment blocks of Gothenburg, a city reeling from a macabre double murder. Winter, whose normally secure battlements are assaulted by family tragedy and the impending birth of his first child, sets out to follow the dark drops of gore blooming in the snow. The path leads in any number of interesting directions—through thickets of death metal enthusiasts and swingers, through winds of psychosexual trauma—but these subjects never pierce the book's colorless atmosphere. Excessive exposition slows down an already unhurried plot, which Americans fond of glib investigators on CSI and Hannibal Lecter's piercing irony will find insufficiently suspenseful. The villain is comparatively bland, and the translation often awkward: Winters takes a "softly softly approach" so that his witness doesn't get "chary." Add in an insistence on mundane details, such as the particulars of a simple bank transaction, and the results smother any flame of personality. All the blocks that built this gothic ice cathedral are cut straight, but assembled without the design of a compelling thriller.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Adult
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0670034150
• ISBN 13: 9780670034154
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400