by Åke Edwardson · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782264037176
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«Danse avec l'ange» is the crime novel by Åke Edwardson, published by 10-18 in paperback (428 pages, in French).
Chief Inspector Erik Winter joins forces with the British police when a series of brutal murders of young people rocks London and Gothenburg. The killer, nicknamed Hitchcock, appears to have filmed his crimes: traces of a tripod remain in the victims' blood. The investigation delves into the world of snuff films and takes a turn thanks to a thief who found bloodstained clothes in an apartment.
First installment of the Inspector Winter series. The original novel, published in Swedish as «Dans med en ängel», received the Swedish Academy of Crime Fiction Award in 1997.
For fans of Nordic noir and crime plots with international investigation.
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.
