Death Angels

by Edwardson, Ake (Author); Schubert, Ken (Translator)

• ISBN13: 9780143116097
• ISBN10: 0143116096
• Edition: Original
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-09-29
• Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)

Summary

The debut thriller in the internationally acclaimed series— available for the first time in the United States A long-time number one bestseller in his native Sweden, Åke Edwardson’s profile was conspicuously raised when his novel Frozen Trackswas chosen as a finalist for a 2008 Los Angeles TimesBook Prize. Until now, however, the novel that launched Edwardson’s critically acclaimed Erik Winter series has never been available in the United States. With a new series translator who fully captures Edwardson’s signature atmospheric style, Death Angelsis America’s introduction to Sweden’s youngest Chief Inspector as he teams up with Scotland Yard to solve the mysterious parallel killings of young British and Swedish tourists. Richly evocative of mid-nineties South London and Gothenburg, Sweden, Death Angelsis a brilliant opening to a mesmerizing series that has become a phenomenon in international crime fiction.

Author Biography

+àke Edwardson has won the Swedish Academy of Crime Writers Award three times, and his ten Erik Winter novels have been published in twenty-one countries.