by Kjell Eriksson · Allison & Busby · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780749011574
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«The Cruel Stars of the Night» is the Swedish crime novel by Kjell Eriksson, published by Allison & Busby in hardcover (480 pages, in English).
In autumn, Professor Ulrik Hindersten disappears from Uppsala without a trace; shortly afterwards, the bodies of two local farmers are found. Inspector Ann Lindell and her team investigate whether the crimes are connected, while a dangerous web of past events becomes urgent and the killer seems closer than she thinks.
The novel belongs to the Inspector Ann Lindell series and was originally published in Swedish as «Nattens grymma stjärnor» (2004); the English edition, translated by Ebba Segerberg, appeared in 2012.
For readers of Nordic noir and police series featuring a female inspector as protagonist.
'Kjell Sylve Eriksson is a Swedish writer, author of the detective chief inspector Ann Lindell crime novels. Den upplysta stigen, the first of the Lindell series, was named Best First Novel of 1999 by the Swedish Crime Academy. Prinsessan av Burundi, fourth in the series, was awarded the Swedish Crime Writers' Academy Best Swedish Crime Novel Award in 2002. Öppen grav, published in 2009, was the tenth and final novel in the series. Currently only eight Lindell novels are available in English, though St. Martin's Press has the rights to the whole series.
