Helene Tursten
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"Detective Inspector Irene Huss is an investigator assigned to the Violent Crimes Unit in Goteborg, Sweden. She is a wife and mother, her husband is a chef and she has twin daughters and also a judo champion and an avowed feminist in a police department which is still adjusting to the presence of women as officers."--Jacket.
2) The torso
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English
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A partial torso is washed up on a Swedish beach, its only identifying mark a tattoo. Detective Inspector Irene Huss of the Göteborg Criminal Police liases with her Danish counterparts who have a similar unsolved murder. Then it begins to seem as if the killer may be following her and may even be a colleague.
3) Night rounds
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Soho Press
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English
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"When a nurse is murdered and another disappears during a hospital blackout, Detective Inspector Irene Huss of the Violent Crimes Unit struggles with a report by the crime's only witness, who claims she saw a nurse who died sixty years earlier."--Publisher.
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"A pastor and his wife, as well as their son, a schoolteacher, have been shot to death in their homes in a remote Swedish village. Clues left by the murderer point to a cult of Satanists. The investigation by Detective Inspector Irene Huss takes her to London and then to Scotland before she can solve this intricately plotted crime."--Page 4 of cover.
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2013.
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English
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In this fifth installment in the critically acclaimed Irene Huss series, three men are found brutally executed in one of Goteborg's most fashionable neighborhoods. All three men were involved in an online poker company, but that's all they appear to have in common. The complex investigation immerses Detective Inspector Irene Huss and her colleagues into a world of expensive cars, fancy homes and impressive castles in the air.
Meanwhile,...
Meanwhile,...
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2014.
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English
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"In this sixth installment in the critically acclaimed Swedish crime series, the murder of a young ballerina named Sophie, apparently an arson victim, sets off shrill alarm bells for Detective Inspector Irene Huss, who remembers the matching details of an unsolved case from fifteen years earlier, when Irene had only just started in the police force. The stepfather of the then eight-year-old Sophie has been murdered in a very similar way, and at the...
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Soho Crime
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2021.
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English
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"Just when things have finally cooled down for 88-year-old Maud after the disturbing discovery of a dead body in her apartment in Gothenburg, a couple of detectives return to her doorstep, ruining a perfectly good afternoon. Though Maud deftly dodges their questions with the skill of an Olympic gymnast a fifth of her age, she wonders if suspicion has fallen on her, little old lady that she is. The truth is, ever since Maud was a girl, death has seemed...
8) Snowdrift
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Detective Inspector Embla Nyström volume 3
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Soho Crime
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2020.
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English
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"One winter night, 28-year-old Detective Inspector Embla Nyström receives a phone call that sends her reeling. It's been fifteen years since Embla's best friend disappeared from a nightclub in Gothenburg, but Embla recognizes her voice immediately, though the call quickly disconnects. Lollo is still alive. But before Embla can dive into the case, she gets another phone call, this time from her cousin. A man has been found shot to death in one of...
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Soho Crime
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2015.
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English
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"It's May and the snow has hardly melted in Göteborg, Sweden, but things are heating up quickly for Detective Inspector Irene Huss in the Violent Crimes Unit. The body of a teenage girl is found in the woods, naked and horrifically scarred. Then there's the mummified body that is discovered bricked up in a chimney on a demolition site, not to mention the city's ongoing problem with gang violence. With the sudden influx of cases and one detective...
10) The beige man
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Soho Crime
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2015.
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English
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"Goteborg, Sweden: A high-speed chase of a stolen BMW takes a chilling turn when the two police officers involved witness a gruesome hit-and-run. When they finally recover the abandoned vehicle, search dogs are unable to trace the thieves, but they do uncover an entirely different horror: the half-naked corpse of a young girl in a nearby root cellar. As Detective Inspector Irene Huss and her colleagues struggle to put the pieces together, they discover...
11) Winter grave
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Soho Crime
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2019.
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English
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Two young kids are missing. A police officer is found dead. Detective Inspector Embla Nyström must quickly solve the mystery and find the children before the small town takes matters into their own hands.
In this thrilling mystery set in rural Sweden, Detective Inspector Embla Nyström must solve a murder case and find two missing children before the small town takes matters into their own hands. When a little girl disappears a few weeks before...
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Soho Crime
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2017.
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English
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"With gang violence escalating in Goteborg, Sweden, the Organized Crimes Unit pairs with the Violent Crimes Unit to help defuse the situation. But could there be a mole on the force? In this final installment of the internationally bestselling Irene Huss investigations, the gang warfare that has been brewing in Goteborg is about to explode. A member of a notorious biker gang has been set on fire--alive. Even in a culture where ritual killings are...
13) Hunting game
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Soho Crime
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2019.
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English
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"The first installment in Helene Tursten's brand new series featuring the strong, smart Detective Inspector Embla Nyström. From a young age, 28-year-old Embla Nyström has been plagued by chronic nightmares and racing thoughts. Though she still develops unhealthy fixations and makes rash decisions from time to time, she has learned to channel most of her anxious energy into her position as Detective Inspector in the mobile unit in Gothenburg, Sweden,...
14) Who watcheth
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Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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"He watches the women from the shadows. He has an understanding with them; as long as they follow his rules, they are safe. But when they sin, he sentences them to death. A woman is found dead in a cemetery, strangled and covered in plastic. A thorough examination of the corpse reveals that the killer left behind no evidence. But just a few days before her death, the victim received a flower, an unintelligible note, and a photograph of herself. Detective...