From the three-time winner of the Swedish Crime Writers' Award.

A couple are found murdered in their flat in Gothenburg, their bodies symbolically arranged in a mysterious and grotesque fashion. As Winter follows the trail of clues into the cult world of the gothic, he becomes enmeshed in a riddle of nightmares, where he must untangle good from evil and sun from shadow.

Åke Edwardson was born in 1953. He has worked as a journalist and 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 the Gothenburg University. He has on three occasions been awarded the Swedish Crime Writers' Award for best Crime novel.

Meet Erik Winter: not a stereotypically glum detective. The youngest chief inspector in Sweden, he wears sharp suits, cooks gourmet meals, has a penchant for jazz and is about to become a father. But he has his share of troubles too: a bloody double murder on his doorstep is only the beginning.