When 29-year-old Paula Ney is found dead in room 10 of the sleazy Hotel Revy in Gothenburg, Sweden, it brings back unresolved issues of an earlier case for Chief Inspector Erik Winter, who's been assigned the case. Over 20 years ago, another 29-year-old woman named Ellen Borge vanished after checking into the same room. The deeper Winter delves into the current murder case, the more he recalls the events of the earlier unsolved case. Though there seems to be no connection between the two women, Winter can't help but feel there's a link, especially when Paula's parents are less than forthcoming about their daughter's life.
Winter's guilt at not solving the past case leads him to dig through the archived information pertaining to it. With deep diligence and unshakable patience, Winter starts connecting the elusive threads of the two incidents. What he discovers is even more shocking than he could have imagined.
Åke Edwardson writes a brilliant and gripping police procedural thriller in ROOM NO. 10. The atmospheric setting and the twisting plot elements makes for an excellent reading experience. ROOM NO. 10 is crime fiction at its best.
A YOUNG WOMAN IS DISCOVERED hanged in a room in a
decrepit hotel, and Gothenburg's 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 woman's 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 disappeared—one of his first cases as a
young detective—Winter becomes increasingly convinced
that the two cases are somehow related.
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