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Åke Edwardson

Forfatter af Sol og skygge

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Om forfatteren

Åke Edwardson was born in Småland, Sweden on March 10, 1953. Before becoming a full-time author, he was a journalist, a lecturer in journalism at Gothenburg University, and press officer for the United Nations. He writes the Chief Inspector Erik Winter series. He has won numerous awards including vis mere the Swedish Academy of Crime Writers' Award three times. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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Serier

Værker af Åke Edwardson

Sol og skygge (1999) 620 eksemplarer
Dans med en engel (1997) 578 eksemplarer
Lad det aldrig holde op (2006) 532 eksemplarer
Himlen er et sted på jorden (2001) 488 eksemplarer
Råb på lang afstand (1998) 461 eksemplarer
Værelse nummer 10 (2005) 344 eksemplarer
Sejl af sten (2002) 304 eksemplarer
Et yndigt land : kriminalroman (2006) 187 eksemplarer
Næsten død mand : kriminalroman (2007) 179 eksemplarer
Den sidste vinter : kriminalroman (2008) 164 eksemplarer
To All Who Have Died (1995) 102 eksemplarer
Ikke se, ikke høre, ikke tale (1996) 95 eksemplarer
Huset ved verdens ende (2012) 70 eksemplarer
Winterland (2003) 60 eksemplarer
Jukebox (2003) 56 eksemplarer
Marconipark (2013) 53 eksemplarer
Samurai Summer (2005) 41 eksemplarer
Möt mig i Estepona (2013) 33 eksemplarer
Gennemrejse (1999) 30 eksemplarer
Drakmånad (2006) 19 eksemplarer
Det trettonde fallet (2021) 9 eksemplarer
Bis der Tod uns scheidet. CD (2006) 4 eksemplarer
Låt De Aldrig Ta Slut 2 eksemplarer
Bungalow (2019) 2 eksemplarer
Winterin viimeinen talvi (2013) 2 eksemplarer
Winterdunkel: Erzählungen (2017) 2 eksemplarer
Verrat (2007) 2 eksemplarer
Mord och ingen julefrid (2021) 1 eksemplar
Julklapp 1 eksemplar
Eiszeit (2005) 1 eksemplar
Edwardsson, Åke 1 eksemplar
Deckarmix (2003) 1 eksemplar
Sokis su angelu : romanas (2000) 1 eksemplar
Kommissar Winter [4 DVDs] (2014) 1 eksemplar
Inspector Winter* 1 eksemplar

Associated Works

A Darker Shade of Sweden (2013) — Bidragyder — 107 eksemplarer
The Scent of Almonds [novella] (2007) — Forfatter — 50 eksemplarer
Stockholm Noir (2016) — Bidragyder — 43 eksemplarer
Tatort Tannenbaum: Kommissare feiern Weihnachten (2012) — Bidragyder — 9 eksemplarer
En Kriminelt god jul : femten svarte julefortellinger (2006) — Bidragyder — 6 eksemplarer
De odöda : skräcknoveller (2012) — Bidragyder — 6 eksemplarer
Vintermord (2011) — Bidragyder — 6 eksemplarer

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Kanonisk navn
Edwardson, Åke
Juridisk navn
Edvardsson, Karl Åke Peter
Fødselsdato
1953
Køn
male
Nationalitet
Sweden
Fødested
Vrigstad, Sweden
Erhverv
journalist
lecturer

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Mesmerizing was a good descriptor. I'm not even sure if I liked the story, but the writing... mesmerizing.
 
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Kiramke | 13 andre anmeldelser | Jun 27, 2023 |
There's maybe something wrong about enjoying dark frozen murder stories in the middle of Wisconsin winter, but whatever.
 
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Kiramke | 16 andre anmeldelser | Jun 27, 2023 |
The more of this series I read, the more I appreciate his writing, especially on thought process.
 
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Kiramke | 14 andre anmeldelser | Jun 27, 2023 |
I had liked the first installment of the Erik Winter series by Åke Edwardson so much that I was eager to read the next one. Unfortunately I was quite disappointed!
This book has been published in English as The Shadow Woman.

The case is interesting enough: A young woman is found murdered on the shore of a lake in Göteborg, and there is no clue about who she is. Erik Winter, a wealthy investigator in his late thirties, is drawn into the case immediately and does his best to find out who the woman was, but it is proving to be very difficult. The stakes are even higher because the autopsy shows that the woman has given birth, so somewhere there might be a child in grave danger.

So yes, the premise is intriguing, but after a while the story just dragged on and on and I just hoped that something would happen. Moreover, I don't mind reading about the private lives of detectives, but in this novel it is too much, especially because it is equally depressing as the case. I know that this is nordic noir, but still, there must be something that creates a spark and that makes me want to read on. There are a few points where the plot does become more gripping, but as it evolves, it is taken over by the background story of a bank robbery and that did not interest me in the least. After 599 pages, I was just happy that it was over.
Having said that, I still somewhat like Erik Winter as a character, although I liked him much more in the first novel.

I will read the third book for three reasons: First, I enjoyed the first one immensely and am not ready yet to give up on this series. Second, my husband owns the third book as a physical copy and because of that I started reading this series, wishing to read it in order. Third, from that book onwards the series has been translated by another German translator who, according to the reviews, does a much better job and makes the books more readable, so I am curious about that.
If I don't like the third book considerably more than this one, I will abandon the series.
… (mere)
 
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MissBrangwen | 13 andre anmeldelser | Apr 5, 2023 |

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Værker
47
Also by
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Medlemmer
4,478
Popularitet
#5,596
Vurdering
½ 3.4
Anmeldelser
138
ISBN
517
Sprog
15
Udvalgt
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