Book description
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...
à ke Edwardson was born in 1953. He has worked as a journalist and as
a press officer for the UN, and has written books on journalism and
creative writing. Now a best-selling author of detective fiction, he is
also a professor at Gothenburg University. He has on three occasions
been awarded the Swedish Crime Writers' Award for best crime novel.
