Never End

Never End
Author(s)	Ake Edwardson
Original title	Låt det aldrig ta slut
Translator	Laurie Thompson
Country	Sweden
Language	English
Series	Inspector Winter
Genre(s)	Crime/Mystery
Publisher	Harvill Secker
Publication date	2006
Published in English	June 2006 (UK)
Media type	Print
Pages	329pp
ISBN	1-84343-201-3
OCLC Number	64314962
Preceded by	Sun and Shadow
Followed by	Frozen Tracks

This article is about the crime novel. For the Namie Amuro's song, see Never End (song).

Never End is a crime novel by Swedish writer Åke Edwardson, and features his protagonist Inspector Erik Winter, who bucks the trend for Swedish detectives, being happily married, a new father, and supposedly the youngest Detective Inspector on the Swedish force. The novel was first published in Sweden in 2000, and was translated into English by Laurie Thompson in 2006.

Plot

A nineteen year-old woman, Jeanette Bielke, is raped whilst walking home during the night. Inspector Winter is perturbed when he realises that the rape occurred in exactly the same spot as a similar crime, which in this case ended in murder, five years ago. That case remains unsolved, and looms even further into Winter's site when another rape occurs, and this one ends in murder again.