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Aristocop, Swedish Style
Chief Inspector Erik Winter, the hero of the seven books in the mystery series of the same name, is the golden boy of the Gothenburg, Sweden homicide division. He's young, elegant, wealthy, very, very good at his job and much less anxious than that other Swedish cop, Kurt Wallander.
An impressionistic Scandinavian police procedural with more violence and less angst than Wallander
These books are all about the characters--Winter, his team of investigators, their partners and children--and how they react to the traumatic experiences life throws their way. The stories of the investigations--how they actually figure out whodunit--are a bit less carefully constructed, sometimes to the point where the plot seems almost superfluous. Sometimes this bugs me, sometimes it doesn't.
Series Guide
This series includes ten mystery novels, of which seven have been translated to English. The author doesn't plan to write more in this series.
Book Summaries
Below, a list of the crime novels in this series, in chronological order:
Death Angels (2009, Chief Inspector Erik Winter Mystery Books #1)
Horrific murders in England and Sweden may be the work of one man. The Shadow Woman (2010, Chief Inspector Erik Winter Mystery Books #2)
A murder during the annual Gothenburg party turns up clues to a long dead cold caseSun and Shadow (2005, Chief Inspector Erik Winter Mystery Books #3)
A bloody double murder takes Winter's mind off his personal troubles: a pregnant girlfriend and a dying father.Never End (2006, Chief Inspector Erik Winter Mystery Books #4)
A serial murderer-rapist Winter failed to catch five years ago is back. Or is he?Frozen Tracks (2007, Chief Inspector Erik Winter Mystery Books #5)
Two bizarre series of crimes--one against college students, the other against nursery school kids--lead Winter and his team into the barren prairie of rural Sweden.Sail of Stone (2012, Chief Inspector Erik Winter Mystery Books #6)
Winter travels to Scotland in search of a missing person.Room No. 10 (2013, Chief Inspector Erik Winter Mystery Books #7)
A woman missing for twenty years and a murder victim have nothing in common except a hotel room: No. 10.Book Reviews
Erik Winter Series
(From newest to oldest; Dates refer to publication in the US in English;
# refers to series order)
Above, from top to bottom:
Gothenburg, Sweden at night; Landscape near Gothenburg; Cabins near Gothenburg
(2005, Chief Inspector Erik Winter Mystery Books #3)
by Åke Edwardson
Translated to English by Laurie Thompson
NOT YET REVIEWED
(Police Procedurals. Set in Sweden)
(2012, Chief Inspector. Erik Winter Mystery Books #6)
by Åke Edwardson
Translated to English by Rachel Wilson-Broyles
NOT YET REVIEWED
(Police Procedurals. Set in Sweden)
(2013, Chief Inspector Erik Winter Mystery Books #7)
by Åke Edwardson
Translated to English by Rachel Wilson-Broyles
NOT YET REVIEWED
(Police Procedurals. Set in Sweden)
(2006, Chief Inspector Erik Winter Mystery Books #4)
by Åke Edwardson
Translated to English by Laurie Thompson
NOT YET REVIEWED
(Police Procedurals. Set in Sweden)
(2007, Chief Inspector Erik Winter Mystery Books #5)
by Åke Edwardson
Translated to English by Laurie Thompson
NOT YET REVIEWED
(Police Procedurals. Set in Sweden)
(2009, Chief Inspector Erik Winter Mystery Books #1)
by Åke Edwardson
Translated to English by Ken Schubert
I found the story hard to follow because it is written from the viewpoints of quite a few characters. It's hard to put the whole story together.
(Police Procedurals. Set in Sweden)
(2010, Chief Inspector Erik Winter Mysteries #2)
by Åke Edwardson
Translated to English by Per Carlsson
NOT YET REVIEWED
(Police Procedurals. Set in Sweden)
Indexes
Other mystery book series set in Sweden:
- Rebecka Martinsson Mystery Books by Åsa Larsson
- Millennium Trilogy Thrillers by Stieg Larsson
- Kurt Wallander Mystery Books by Henning Mankell
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