by Åke Edwardson · Lattes · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782264039699
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«Un cri si lointain» is the crime novel by Åke Edwardson, published by Lattes in paperback (519 pages, in French).
In a Gothenburg stifled by a heatwave, Detective Superintendent Erik Winter tries to maintain his routine amid street tensions and personal problems. Everything changes when a woman's body is found by a lake; the autopsy reveals she had given birth, and that will be the only clue to identify her.
Second installment in the Inspector Winter series. Originally published in Swedish in 1998 as Rop från långt avstånd; nominated for the Swedish Academy Crime Novel Award.
For fans of Scandinavian thrillers and detective plots with a recurring protagonist.
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.
