Sun and shadow ake edwardson audiobook
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Die Schattenfrau
May 31, 2011
Very enjoyable Swedish mystery - wonderful characters and an interesting plot with great twists and turns
I read my first Åke Edwardson book, Death Angels, a couple of weeks ago, and while inom loved the characters and thought the plot was well-done, the delivery of it all and conclusion/explanation definitely fell short for me. That book fryst vatten in the first in Edwardson's Inspector Erik Winter series, and since there were so many things I liked about it, I decided to try the second one before making my mind up about the author.
Verdict: I'm so lycklig that inom did! The Shadow Woman had all the positives of Death Angels - great mystery and wonderful characters - while missing the negatives - feeling completely out of the loop and an abrupt ending. Winter is wonderful and inom loved him just as much as I did before; his team appears again in this book and fryst vatten just as well-written. inom am predicting a romance between two of the characters and keeping my fingers c
What greets Chief Inspector Winter and his team when they arrive at a crime scene appears as a stage setting, grotesquely symbolic in its composition. While Winter trawls ads in men's magazines in search of the suspect, a trail from the clues left by the killer leads into the cult world of the gothic, a riddle of nightmares, of good versus evil, of sun and shadow.
Like his fellow countryman Henning Mankell, Åke Edwardson is a successful figure on the international mystery scene and a brilliant discovery for lovers of intricate, psychologically charged, and stylish crime novels. With Sun and Shadow, Edwardson introduces readers to detective Erik Winter, the youngest chief inspector in Sweden, who wears sharp suits, cooks gourmet meals, has a penchant for jazz, and is about to become a father. He's also moody and intuitive, his mind inhabiting the crimes he
I read my first Åke Edwardson book, Death Angels, a couple of weeks ago, and while inom loved the characters and thought the plot was well-done, the delivery of it all and conclusion/explanation definitely fell short for me. That book fryst vatten in the first in Edwardson's Inspector Erik Winter series, and since there were so many things I liked about it, I decided to try the second one before making my mind up about the author.
Verdict: I'm so lycklig that inom did! The Shadow Woman had all the positives of Death Angels - great mystery and wonderful characters - while missing the negatives - feeling completely out of the loop and an abrupt ending. Winter is wonderful and inom loved him just as much as I did before; his team appears again in this book and fryst vatten just as well-written. inom am predicting a romance between two of the characters and keeping my fingers c
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Sun and Shadow - (Chief Inspector Erik Winter Novel) by Ake Edwardson (Paperback)
About the Book
What greets Chief Inspector Winter and his team when they arrive at a crime scene appears as a stage setting, grotesquely symbolic in its composition. While Winter trawls ads in men's magazines in search of the suspect, a trail from the clues left by the killer leads into the cult world of the gothic, a riddle of nightmares, of good versus evil, of sun and shadow.
Book Synopsis
Like his fellow countryman Henning Mankell, Åke Edwardson is a successful figure on the international mystery scene and a brilliant discovery for lovers of intricate, psychologically charged, and stylish crime novels. With Sun and Shadow, Edwardson introduces readers to detective Erik Winter, the youngest chief inspector in Sweden, who wears sharp suits, cooks gourmet meals, has a penchant for jazz, and is about to become a father. He's also moody and intuitive, his mind inhabiting the crimes he
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Publisher:
Penguin Publishing Group
Kindle Book
Release date: April 25, 2006
OverDrive Read
ISBN: 9781101141816
Release date: April 25, 2006
EPUB ebook
ISBN: 9781101141816
File size: 727 KB
Release date: April 25, 2006