Detective Chief Inspector Erik Winter returns in a hard-boiled murder mystery about the dark and dirty underside of upstanding family life.

AKE EDWARDSON was born in 1953. He has worked as a journalist and as a press officer for the UN, and has written books on journalism and creative writing. Now a best-selling author of detective fiction, he is also a professor at Gothenburg University. He has on three occasions been awarded the Swedish Crime Writers' Award for best crime novel.