by Åke Edwardson · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783548609942
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«Toter Mann» is the crime novel by Åke Edwardson, published by Ullstein Taschenbuch Verlag in paperback (537 pages, in German).
Inspector Erik Winter suffers from recurring headaches he does not want to investigate while facing a case in Gothenburg that intertwines the fates of five men: a gangster, a writer, a politician, an ordinary citizen, and himself. All are linked by a girl who disappeared long ago and face death.
The novel belongs to the series featuring Chief Inspector Erik Winter; it is the ninth case. It was originally published in Swedish as «Nästan död man» (2007); the German translation is by Angelika Kutsch.
For fans of Scandinavian crime fiction and police procedurals set in Gothenburg.
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.
