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Rum Nummer 10 (2000)

by Åke Edwardson(Favorite Author)

3.35 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

9170014140 (ISBN13: 9789170014147)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

series

Inspector Winter

review 1: Far from the best of the Erik Winter mysteries, Room No. 10 makes a tenuous virtue of the detective's mid-life crisis. A married version of James Bond, Erik has it all: great taste in wine, Scotch, food, clothing and jazz, an attractive and high-earning doctor wife, two adorable little daughters, a private income, a mother conveniently situated on the Costa Brava, a big apartment, a good job as a chief inspector in the Gothenburg private investigations department, and the prospect of an idyllic 6-month leave of absence from his physically and mentally crushing work. When the body of a young woman is discovered in the seedy hotel room from which another young woman vanished 18 years before, Winter's feelings of contentment unravel into guilt and déja vu, as the details o... moref the earlier case come back to haunt him. The complicated and layered plot owes much to Chandler's Big Sleep, but without the rhetorical punch, memorable character types, and local off-color of Chandler's model. Room No. 10 is a tedious read.
review 2: Certainly a much better book than his last, Sail of Stone, Room No.10 was an very well thought-out and intricately layered mystery that offers readers teasing clues as to the solution but keeps pulling the rug out from under us - Edwardson spent a lot of time here taking us into Winter's past as a young police officer and that added a significant amount of depth to his characterization - I also very much appreciated how Edwardson doesn't have Winter solve the case too quickly - he manages to make the mystery interesting but also to give readers a sense of how difficult it sometimes can be to put all the pieces together. less

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