The Cruel Stars of the Night: A Mystery

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 031236668X ISBN13: 9780312366681 Release Date: April 2008 Publisher: Minotaur Books Length: 336 Pages Weight: 0.65 lbs. Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.3" When The Princess of Burundi was published by Thomas Dunne Books, American critics hailed Kjell Eriksson as Sweden's Ed McBain, and they compared him to Henning Mankell. Now The Cruel Stars of the Night, the next in this internationally acclaimed crime series, unveils a spellbinding new tale again featuring police inspector Ann Lindell. The Cruel Stars of the Night opens one snowy day when thirty-five-year-old Laura Hindersten goes to the police to report that her father, a local professor, is missing. Inspector Ann Lindell and her colleagues can find no motive for the man's disappearance. And when the corpses of two elderly men do turn up, neither of the dead men is the missing academic. Unexpectedly, the police get help from one of the professor's colleagues, who believes