There is a deafening silence in Gothenburg’s northern suburbs. Nobody wants to talk, no matter what may have happened, at least not to outsiders. And Erik Winter is about as much of an outsider as you can get. Midsummer is still a week away, but it i ...
There is a deafening silence in Gothenburg’s northern suburbs. Nobody wants to talk, no matter what may have happened, at least not to outsiders. And Erik Winter is about as much of an outsider as you can get. Midsummer is still a week away, but it is already hot. One early morning three men are found dead in a neighbourhood store. Two of them, Jimmy Foro and Hiwa Aziz, worked in the shop, the third, Amir Rezai, just happened to be there. They were all shot at close range. Executed. No money was missing from the till. Did they know the murderers? The taxi driver who found them heard someone running away "on light feet”.
Winter starts asking questions – but nobody’s answering. No one heard the shots; nobody saw anyone running away; no one knows what else they used to sell in the shop apart from food and cigarettes. Was it a dispute over drugs, smuggling, trafficking? Or something worse?
The local police are called in to squeeze their sources in the underworld for information. But the sources remain silent – or disappear. Mistrust of the police is absolute. And why would Nasrin Aziz say anything at all about her murdered brother Hiwa to the police who at the same time are trying to throw her entire family out of the country? Erik Winter is watched by a boy on a bicycle, but the boy disappears without a trace when Winter tries to make contact with him. Was he the one that disappeared ”on light feet”? Winter had better find that boy before anyone else does.
Vänaste land/Fairest Land, Åke Edwardson’s eighth novel about Erik Winter and his colleagues at the Gothenburg police department, portrays a Sweden that is seldom heard or seen, except in the anonymous statistics – the fairest land on this earth.
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