Inspector Huss’s contacts turn up in bits and pieces.
SOHO CRIME
Fiction/Mystery
April 2007
$13 Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-56947-453-2
“The scenes in which Huss
tracks her killer through the underbelly of Copenhagen are as good as Louise
Welsh’s similarly creepy tour of Glasgow in The Cutting Room.” —Entertainment Weekly
“[Tursten]’s a master
at setting the scene, detailing a foreign milieu until it feels familiar.
She juggles a large cast of characters with aplomb, weaving in red herrings
every chapter.” —Time Out Chicago
“One of the better examples of the Swedish crime fiction invasion.” —Baltimore Sun
“Outstanding.” —Publishers Weekly (starred)
“Spins a good story ... this is a solid police procedural.” —Library Journal
Part of a human torso washes up on a beach near Göteborg, Sweden. It is so mutilated that gender is only established by DNA testing. A similar crime, now several years old, remains unsolved in Denmark. Detective Inspector Irene Huss is dispatched to Copenhagen to liaise with police. Then a third corpse is discovered. This time it’s identified. It is a girl Detective Huss knew; she had been asked by the girl’s mother to locate her missing daughter. A fourth victim, the son of a woman heading the Copenhagen crime squad, is also known to Huss. She fears the killer is tracking her, killing people with whom she is connected. There is even a chilling suggestion that he or she is one of her colleagues.
Helene Tursten has been compared to P.D. James in her
native Sweden. Her three subsequent Irene Huss mysteries have been highly
praised. She was born in Göteborg in 1954, where she now lives.
