Åke Edwardson

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born

January 01, 1953 in Sweden

gender

male

website

http://www.akeedwardson.se/

genre

Mystery & Thrillers

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Åke Edwardson is a Swedish author of detective fiction, and a professor at Gothenburg University, the city where many of his Inspector Winter novels are set. Edwardson has had many jobs, including 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' 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.

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* Inspector Winter

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Average rating: 3.48 · 2,412 ratings · 395 reviews · 39 distinct works

	Frozen Tracks (Inspector Winter, #5) by Åke Edwardson, Åke Edwardson 3.68 avg rating — 300 ratings — published 2001 — 17 editions	My rating:
	Sun and Shadow (Inspector Winter, #3) 3.47 avg rating — 344 ratings — published 2002 — 15 editions	My rating:
	Death Angels (Inspector Winter, #1) by Åke Edwardson, Ken Schubert (Translator), Åke Edwardson 3.45 avg rating — 321 ratings — published 1997 — 23 editions	My rating:
	Never End (Inspector Winter, #4) by Åke Edwardson, Laurie Thompson (Translator) 3.42 avg rating — 233 ratings — published 2000 — 15 editions	My rating:
	The Shadow Woman (Inspector Winter #2) by Åke Edwardson, Åke Edwardson, Per Carlsson (Translation) 3.37 avg rating — 198 ratings — published 1998 — 16 editions	My rating:
	Sail of Stone (Inspector Winter, #6) by Åke Edwardson, Rachel Willson-Broyles (Translator), Åke Edwardson 3.41 avg rating — 71 ratings — 11 editions	My rating:
	Nästan död man (Inspector Winter, #9) 3.53 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2007 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Zimmer Nr. 10 by Åke Edwardson, Angelika Kutsch 3.33 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2005 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Vänaste land (Inspector Winter, #8) 3.15 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2006 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Den sista vintern (Inspector Winter #10) 3.61 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2008 — 7 editions	My rating:

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Inspector Winter (10 books)
by Åke Edwardson, Angelika Kutsch

3.48 avg rating — 1,607 ratings

Inspecteur Winter (1 book)
by Åke Edwardson, Marie-Hélène Archambeaud (translator)

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“Is this your first case?' This from the ugliest person Winter had ever seen. His face resembled five pounds of meat loaf molded by an arthritic potter.”
― Åke Edwardson, Death Angels

tags: scandi-crime , scandinavian-literature

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