Born in Småland in 1953, Åke Edwardson has long been a resident of Gothenburg, Sweden's second largest city, where Edwardson plots his crime novels. In contrast to Nesser, therefore, he likes a real milieu. In his debut novel from 1995 he introduces former policeman-turned-private eye Jonathan Wide, a contemprary detective with the customary domestic troubles: Wide is rather scruffy, down-at-heel, recently divorced and struggling with a drink problem. Erik Winter, his current series character, provides a contrast: Chief Inspector at just 37, not interested in modern music, well-groomed, single. Erik Winter changes, however, over the course of the books, physically and emotionally, and by Låt det aldrig ta slut (Neverend) he has become a father.