Snag Dans Met Een Engel (Inspector Winter, #1) Depicted By Åke Edwardson Distributed As Volume

a solid and interesting detective debut, . atmospheric with vague outlines leaving much for interpretation, inspector winters is intuitive, aloof and quietly attractive, definitely will read bookIn een eenvoudige hotelkamer in ZuidLonden wordt het lijk van een jonge Zweed gevonden, Hij is vermoord. Kort daarna vindt een soortgelijke moord plaats in Göteborg, De bloedige voetsporen wijzen erop dat in de kamer een macabere dans is opgevoerd, Voor dejarige hoofdinspecteur Erik Winter vormt dit het begin van een van de pijnlijkste onderzoeken waar hij ooit mee te maken heeft gehad.
Hij stuit op een luguber crimineel netwerk dat snuff movies produceert en verspreidt, I was really trying hard to concentrate on this book but I just can't, The voice of the reader together with the stupid talk of the characters makes it impossible for me, I can't bear stupid dialogues in a book so I decided to drop it after about two hours of listening.
I have many other interesting books so I'm not going to waste my time on this, Жестокое, немыслимое, простите, говно, еще сильнее убитое чудовищной редактурой, точнее, полным ее отсутствием. The pacing seemed a little slow, Inspector Winter is interesting. I will continue the series, A serial killer goes for a hunt both in London and it Gothenburg and we follow Swedish detective/police don't know, something like it as he teams up with British counterpart as they tries to solve the case.
Eh meh, it was well written and all that, But I didn't find the case that interesting or intriguing and the characters wasn't fleshed out enough for me.
Didn't get a connection with them or saw them as any different from all the other crime police procedures I have read.
And that's a main problem I've got for most of books like this, I can never really pick apart what's uniqe with each book, just flows into a big musch for me.
But I'll keep trying to find a series for me, Novela policial contemporánea. Sueca como las de Mankell, pero me gustó más, Porque el detective es más interesante: Erik Winter es un rico snob de buena familia dinero viejo y dinero nuevo que es el más joven comisario de Gotemburgo.

El caso tiene intriga y la solución involucra a personajes que desde el principio están en la novela.
Es mejor así que cuando se resuelve el caso descubriendo hechos que también para el lector son nuevos.

Se trata de asesinatos sádicos, posiblemente para ser filmados, De suecos en Londres e ingleses en Gotemburgo, Policías de Suecia y de Londres son los actores de reparto, y también atrapan el interés del lector.

Resumen facilista: buena novela policial, Not bad for a first book in a series, but not great, I will try the next in one in the series, Chief Inspector Erik Winter is in charge of a murder investigation in Sweden of teenage boys, The murders are horrific and in a pattern that makes it clear that the same person is doing the killing.
young men are being killed in Guttenberg, Sweden and London England, The crime scenes and victims have many similarities, A team from London and Erik Winter's team in Guttenberg are on the case, My first read of Edwardson but not my last,

Erik Winter is a complex character making him all the more interesting, I enjoyed the mix of the procedural of the Swedish and the British cop shops, I enjoyed getting to know the others involved in the investigation, to see their personalities, catch a glimpse into their lives and hope that some will be explored in more depth in future books in the series.


The frustrations shown by the coppers lent an air of authenticity to the story, Edwardson did very well at fleshing out his protagonists,

I'm not sure what it is about Swedish authors in this genre but I'm finding more and more that I really enjoy.
I do not really know where to start here, The premise was good, but also flawed, and I think there may have been some of this story, lost in translation.
It is the first book in the series, maybe things will improve in the second, I had to keep going back and rereading, because I thought I was missing or skipping over parts of the story.
The murder scene was not fully described and I found it frustrating that these details were omitted, Some of the dialogue and descriptive script was just plain crazy, I am willing to give this author another chance, as there is certainly potential, but I just hope he tries not to be too clever and abstract and sticks to writing a good crime story.
With all the details included, please,.Stars. This book had too many flaws for me to really enjoy it, The translator has unnecessarily appended "street" on to the names of roads in Gothenburg, The author while something of an expert on locations in London is vague about British police ranks and apparently unaware that detectives there rarely carry firearms.


As to the story itself, I was unable to feel much empathy for any of the characters and didn't think the motive for why these particular crimes were committed was explained.
I had to wait a few days to let this book percolate a bit before I wrote a review.
While Death Angels had an interesting plot and I was entertained by the story, I had a bit of a problem getting into the book.
The novel starts off bam at a funeral talking about characters with little introduction and description of who the hell they are or were.
That's fine I'm not stupid I'll try my best to keep up, Soon more characters are introduced, and more, and, as the reader, I have no idea where they fit into the story or what relationship they have to other characters introduced.
And unfortunately their names all look the same, I slog on. Don't get me wrong the story line is interesting and creepy but the main characters and their relationship to one another is confusing.
It also doesn't help that I hate the main character, Inspector Winter, This may be because I'm a woman and his treatment of woman in this book his mother, his sister, the long line of women he has sex with I can't say "sleeps with" because he never sleeps with them they have sex, the women leave leaves a lot to be desired.
I'm not a prude, I understand the fleetingness of modern romance, But Winter treats women like a therapy tool: bend'em over the bed, rip off their underwear, screw'em, and send'em home.
He'd probably have a closer relationship with a blow up doll but then who would answer his phone when he's recovering from his "sexual release" I'm sure men like Inspector Winter exist in this world but I don't have to read about them.
Obviously this is a series geared toward "men's men, " It's too bad it gets in the way of a great plot line, While the story pulled me in enough to keep me interested, I was left with the feeling that something else was lacking.
Now that I've had a few days to think about it, I believe those things are plot development and character connections.


The crimes themselves are as the back cover describes it: "macabre", and the book is a fastpaced and "just the facts, ma'am" type of work.
In film format, this is perfect, However, in the context of a book, it was as if the author himself shied away from delving more deeply into the brutal crimes and twisted motives he himself was creating or was simply in a hurry.
Additionally, characters' back stories appear to be cut, so that the reader doesn't really form strong connections with the characters, including Winter himself.


WARNING MILD SPOILER ALERT
Spoiler gives vague details about the killer's identity, without revealing any names.
These details are only slightly more than the back cover's description, that the killer is playing "a taunt intended for Winter himself.
"

It comes out towards the end of the book that the killer is someone that may know Winter personally.
However, this connection is never explored more in depth, The "final confrontation" is not what I expected, and the end of the book seemed a little anticlimactic because of that.
Look, either you love character deiven thriller/crime stories or you don't, If you do, this book and the one that's coming out in March from SampS are top notch,
Wonderful writer. Am conflicted wonderful characters and great plot, but the delivery and conclusion fell a little short ,stars

My library branch is closing down due to renovations and I found Death Angels as I was raiding the shelves all in a selfless attempt to help them and make it so that they had less books to move, of course.
I was intrigued, since I've been wanting to read more mysteries and thrillers, and what with the recent rage for Swedish writers I thought sitelinkÅke Edwardson would be interesting to try.


Praise
The mystery itself as in the actual plot was good and engaging, The crimes are horrid though in some things we're not given details, but re: below and as the murders pile up you're increasingly anxious to figure it all out and have the murderer unmasked.


The characters were the second strength of the book, and in some ways may have outshone the plot.
Erik Winter, who is our main copper and the man whom the series follows, is very complex and interesting.
He's a player, a little disengaged emotionally, and in some ways of a snob, but he's oddly likable and I ended up becoming very fond of him.
I also loved Macdonald, his counterpart in England, and thought the juxtaposition between the two of them was great.


The other characters, including Winter's team, are equally compelling, though I'll admit I got very confused between Beckman / Bolger / Bergenhem / Birgersson and Malmström / Möllerström and Helander / Halder and etc.
I love how the author gave the easiest name to remember Winter to the one character whom we're not going to get confused about anyway the hero!! I read a Japanese novel recently and while I had no problems keeping those foreign to me names straight, I was embarrassingly confused here.


Criticism
I always felt like I was missing something like there were passages or pages that had somehow been left out, or characters were having conversations or making discoveries while I was "out of the room.
" It was like I was always a few steps behind and while the characters were making these jumps and assumptions, I had no idea where they were coming from and what was leading them to this place or that place.
Also, while we're given certain hints as to what the murders entail, there is not a lot of detail either about what exactly is being done or for what possible psychological purpose besides for the obvious.


In some ways, this worked out well because it is a mystery book, so there were some points where the confusion added positively to my experience as a reader.
One example of this is how the POV of some of the victims and the killer are interwoven into the plot, but very subtly obviously not referring to the blatant killing scene which starts the book so that you'll be a few paragraphs and realize, 'Woah, this isn't Winter or Macdonald or whoever, I'm on the other side of the story here!'

Many times, however, it left me feeling lost, and not in a good mysteryreading way.
I'm definitely no Albert Einstein, but I'm reasonably intelligent and pretty quick, so I don't think it was all me.
Maybe this is just Edwardson's style I don't know, I guess I'll find that out when I read his next book but either way it didn't work for me.
It left me feeling very unsatisfied at the end, as if I had been five steps behind, just chasing a shadow around bends and curves, and then when I finally caught up everything was out to see and had been fully discovered.
. . leaving me floundering and disappointed, Especially because even after that even in the end! there were still things left unexplained that I was confused about.


Lovely Poem
Inscribed on an obelisk seen by Winter at the end of the book:

Wild birds plow their way through the far reaches of space.

How many never reach their final destination,
But what difference does that make
They die free,

Bottom Line
I would recommend this book, but get it from the library.
Edwardson definitely

has potential and there were so many things I did like about Death Angels that I already have a hold on the next one in the series.
. . I'm just hoping I don't have the same "left behind" feeling that I did here,

Chief Inspector Erik Winter Series
As of May, only bookshave been translated into English
BookDeath Angels
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Book sitelinkNever End
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