num_pages: 464
description: A YOUNG WOMAN IS DISCOVERED hanged in a room in a decrepit hotel and Gothenburgs Chief Inspector Erik Winter must try to figure out what happened. As Winter looks around he realizes that he was in the same hotel room many years earlier when it was the last known location of a woman who subsequently disappeared and was never found. The two women seem to have nothing in common except for this hotel room but Winter suspects that there may be other connections. The young womans parents are bereft and unable to explain the puzzling contents of a note she left behind. Winter however senses that they are holding back some secret that might help him to find her murderer. As he pursues his hunch and digs into the old police report on the woman who disappearedone of his first cases as a young detectiveWinter becomes increasingly convinced that the two cases are somehow related. Room No. 10 is a first-rate thriller suffused with the gray seaside beauty of Gothenburg and filled with the characters that ke Edwardsons readers have come to love: Winter the veteran detective who veers between pessimism and optimism but never gives up; Bertil Ringmar the methodical old-timer whose analytical mind keeps everyone focused; hotheaded Fredrik Halders whose temper sometimes overwhelms his passion for justice; and Aneta Djanali Halderss girlfriend an immigrant from Burkina Faso whose ability to talk to other women can open new leads. As compelling as they are dedicated they are an unforgettable team determined to find a bizarre killer.
language: English
title: Room No. 10
publisher: Simon & Schuster