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(0)Helene Tursten
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Language
English
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Maud is an irascible 88-year-old Swedish woman with no family, no friends, and... no qualms about a little murder. This funny, irreverent story collection by Helene Tursten, author of the Irene Huss investigations, features two-never-before translated stories that will keep you laughing all the way to the retirement home. Ever since her darling father's untimely death when she was only eighteen, Maud has lived in the family's spacious apartment in...
2) Winter grave
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Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Two young kids are missing. A police officer is found dead. Detective Inspector Embla Nystrom must quickly solve the mystery and find the children before the small town takes matters into their own hands.
A little girl disappears a few weeks before Christmas, and suspicion falls on the last person she was seen with: the mentally disabled teenage boy who gave her a ride home after school. When a second child disappears and a police officer is found...
3) Hunting game
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The first installment in Helene Tursten's brand new series featuring the strong, smart Detective Inspector Embla Nystrom. From a young age, 28-year-old Embla Nystrom 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,...
4) Snowdrift
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"One winter night, 28-year-old Detective Inspector Embla Nystrom 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 the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"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...
6) Night rounds
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Series
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
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.
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Publisher
Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Göteborg, Sweden: The high-speed chase of a stolen BMW takes a chilling turn when the officers witness a gruesome hit-and-run. After they find the abandoned vehicle, search dogs uncover the half-naked corpse of a young girl nearby. Struggling to put the pieces together, Detective Inspector Irene Huss discovers that the owner of the stolen car is the victim in the hit-and-run. Could it be coincidence? Or is something larger at play?