Detective Inspector Huss

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Inspector Irene Huss, stationed in Getenborg, is called through the rain-drenched streets to the scene of an apparent suicide. The dead man landed on the sidewalk in front of his luxurious duplex apartment. He was a wealthy financier connected, through an old-boys' network, with the first families of Sweden. But this 'Society Suicide' turns out to have been a carefully plotted murder. As more killings ensue, Huss tangles with street gang members, skinheads, immigrants and neo-Nazis - a cross-section of Sweden's disaffected - in order to catch the killer.

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Praise for Detective Inspector Huss

An absorbing, intelligent mystery that holds its own alongside the best feminine hardboiled novels currently being written.
Maureen Corrigan, The Washington Post Book World

Add the voice of Helene Tursten to the list of mystery writers who know how to craft a truly satisfying police procedural.
The Philadelphia Inquirer

[Tursten] imbues this novel with a cold chill of dread that cant be attributed only to the subfreezing temperatures of Gteborg in winter.
Chicago Sun-Times

An intriguing portrait of the workings of a murder squad as well as modern Swedish life.
Portsmouth Herald

Author Bio

Helene Tursten was a nurse and a dentist before she turned to writing. Other books in the Irene Huss series include Night Rounds, The Torso, The Glass Devil, The Golden Calf, The Beige Man, and The Treacherous Net. She was born in G teborg, Sweden, where she now lives with her husband and daughter.