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.