by Åke Edwardson · Lengua de Trapo · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788489618763
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«Bailar con un ángel» is the crime novel by Åke Edwardson, published by Lengua de Trapo in paperback (208 pages, in Spanish).
The appearances of corpses of young Swedes in London and Gothenburg bring together two singular detectives: the Swede Erik Winter and the Londoner Steve McDonald. The investigation points to a killer who leaves behind traces of a macabre dance on the blood of the victims. A novel of psychological suspense that addresses the degradation of large cities and its influence on violence and alienation.
First installment in the Chief Inspector Winter series. Belongs to the Otras Lenguas collection, number 13. With this work, Åke Edwardson won the Swedish Academy Crime Novel Award. Translation by Cristina Cerezo Silva and Martin Lexell.
Åke Edwardson is a Swedish author of detective fiction, and was previously a lecturer in journalism at University of Gothenburg, the city where many of his Inspector Winter novels are set. Edwardson has had many jobs, including as a journalist and press officer for the United Nations and his crime novels have made him a three-time winner of the Swedish Crime Writers' Academy Award for best crime novel. His first novel to be translated into English, in 2005, was Sun and Shadow. The second, Never End, followed in 2006. In a Spiegel Online interview on 21 June 2008, Edwardson declared that he would not write any more crime novels after 10 episodes about his protagonist Winter.
