The Cruel Stars of the Night (Ann Lindell Series #2) » (~)

Kjell Eriksson's novels are instant bestsellers in Sweden, and his popularity is skyrocketing in Germany, Denmark, Italy, Norway, and the Netherlands. The Princess of Burundi won the Swedish Crime Academy Award for Best Crime Novel. His next crime novel in the Ann Lindell series will be published by Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur in 2008.

Stellar Acclaim for The Princess of Burundi

"Stunning...haunting...can chill you to the bone."

- The New York Times Book Review

"Terrific...subtly brilliant...compellingly suspenseful."

- San Francisco Chronicle

"Reminiscent of Ed McBain's 87th Precinct series. Don't miss it."

- Library Journal (starred review)

"Ingenious...a chillingly well-drawn psychotic...Very satisfying."

- Los Angeles Times

"A deep, insightful psychological thriller."

- The Midwest Book Review

"Suspenseful, intelligent, and perceptive...terrific."

- Publishers Weekly

"Riveting . . . resembles the books of Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo, not to mention those of the modern master Henning Mankell."

- The Wall Street Journal

The New York Times - Marilyn Stasio

Not even the cops are exempt from the autumnal melancholy that pervades the story, with Detective Ann Lindell acknowledging (in Ebba Segerberg s sober translation) a nauseating feeling of indifference and casually writing off October as her blues month. Why genre readers are tickled by such morbid views of suffering humanity is anyone s guess. Suffice it to say that Eriksson understands the pathology and explores it with the utmost tenderness.