by Åke Edwardson · Norstedts Pocket · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789172633766
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«Segel av sten» is the crime novel by Åke Edwardson, published by Norstedts Pocket in paperback (463 pages, in Swedish).
Detective Erik Winter faces a new and challenging case in a Swedish thriller of mystery and suspense. The investigation leads the protagonist through a series of clues that grow increasingly complicated, while the novel combines police procedure with the characteristic atmosphere of the Nordic genre. The narrative maintains tension and interest until the denouement.
This novel is the sixth instalment in the Erik Winter series. The original subtitle is 'kriminalroman'. It was originally published in 2003.
For readers of crime fiction and followers of Scandinavian police series.
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.
