Helene Tursten, trans. from the Swedish by Laura A. Wideburg. Soho Crime, $25 (336p) ISBN 978-1-61695-006-4
A self-effacing but effective lead plus a complex whodunit plot add up to a superior Scandinavian crime novel, Tursten’s fourth featuring Det. Insp. Irene Huss (after 2007’s The Glass Devil). When a nurse, Marianne Svärd, is found strangled at a...
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Helene Tursten, trans. from the Swedish by Laura A. Wideburg. Soho Crime, $26.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-61695-008-8
The murder of Kjell B:son Ceder, the so-called restaurant king of Göteborg, kicks off Tursten’s complex and compelling fifth Det. Insp. Irene Huss investigation to be published in the U.S. (after 2012’s Night Rounds). Someone shot Ceder in the head...
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Helen Tursten, trans. from the Swedish by Laura A. Wideburg. Soho Crime, $26.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-61695-010-1
Swedish author Tursten isn't in top form, and neither is her lead character, in the disappointing sixth Inspector Irene Huss mystery (after 2013's The Golden Calf). In 1989, Irene, a novice policewoman, responded to a house fire in which a man died.
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Helene Tursten, trans. from the Swedish by Marlaine Delargy. Soho Crime, $26.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-61695-404-8
Fans of serial killer novels will welcome Tursten’s solid ninth mystery featuring Det. Insp. Irene Huss (after 2015’s The Treacherous Net). A journal entry at the start—“I am the one who watcheth in the darkness. I am the Guardian”—clues the reader...
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Helene Tursten, trans. from the Swedish by Marlaine Delargy. Soho Crime, $26.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-61695-400-0
Two cases that arise on the same wintry night in Göteborg, Sweden, propel Tursten’s excellent seventh mystery featuring Det. Insp. Irene Huss (after 2014’s The Fire Dance). Discovering the culprits behind the hit-and-run that killed Torleif Sandberg,
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Helene Tursten, trans. from the Swedish by Marlaine Delargy. Soho Crime, $26.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-61695-402-4
In Tursten’s assured eighth novel featuring Det. Insp. Irene Huss (after The Beige Man), two teenage girls without any history of trouble go missing and later turn up as mutilated corpses. As gruesome as the murders are, what rattles Huss and her...
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Helene Tursten, Author, Katarina E. Tucker, Translator , trans. from the Swedish by Katarina Emilie Tucker. Soho $24 (341p) ISBN 978-1-56947-425-9
In Swedish author Tursten's outstanding second police procedural to feature Irene Huss of the Göteborg Violent Crimes Unit (after 2003's Detective Inspector Huss
), the discovery of a dismembered corpse initiates a frustrating chase for
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Helene Tursten, Author, Katarina E. Tucker, Translator , trans. from the Swedish by Katarina E. Tucker. Soho $24 (311p) ISBN 978-1-56947-452-5
Swedish author Tursten's taut third contemporary police procedural (after 2006's The Torso
) opens with a compelling setup: after Det. Insp. Irene Huss and her team find Jacob Schyttelius, a divorced teacher, shot to death in his isolated...
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Helene Tursten, trans. from the Swedish by Marlaine Delargy. Soho Crime, $26.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-61695-845-9
Set in Göteborg, Sweden, Tursten’s lackluster 10th novel featuring Insp. Irene Huss (after 2016’s Who Watcheth) opens with a burning man staggering out of a building and dying in agony in the front yard. The ensuing investigation reveals that the...
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Helene Tursten, trans. from the Swedish by Paul Norlen. Soho Crime, $26.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-61695-650-9
Det. Insp. Embla Nyström, who appeared as a police intern in Tursten’s 2015 Irene Huss mystery, The Treacherous Net, is now with the Västra Götaland County Bureau of Investigation’s mobile police unit in this outstanding series launch. The line...
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Helene Tursten, trans. from the Swedish by Marlaine Delargy. Soho Crime, $27.95 (384p) ISBN 978-1-64129-160-6
Tursten’s spellbinding third crime novel featuring Det. Insp. Embla Nyström picks up eight days after the end of 2019’s Winter Grave, which closed with Embla receiving a late-night phone call from her childhood best friend, Lollo, who disappeared 14
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Helene Tursten, trans. from the Swedish by Marlaine Delargy. Soho Crime, $12.95 trade paper (184p) ISBN 978-1-64129-011-1
The five stories in this exceptional collection from Tursten (the Irene Huss mysteries) feature Maud, a seemingly mild-mannered 88-year-old Gothenburg resident who’s perfectly willing to use wiles and sometimes deadly force to defend her independent
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Helene Tursten trans. from the Swedish by Larlaine Delargy. Soho Crime, $26.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-64129-076-0
Det. Insp. Embla Nystrom, who’s also a big game hunter and Nordic light welterweight champion, has a lot on her plate in Tursten’s fast-paced sequel to 2018’s Hunting Game. In Strömstad in western Sweden, she takes on a lethal combination of two...
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Helene Tursten, trans. from the Swedish by Marlaine Delargy. Soho Crime, $14.99 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-1-64129-167-5
The six linked stories in Swedish author Tursten’s delightful sequel to 2018’s An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good showcase the ingenious murder methods that Maud, an idiosyncratic octogenarian with questionable motives, has devised over the years. In “
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