Detective Inspector Huss **SIGNED**

Tursten, Helene

ISBN 10: 156947303X / ISBN 13: 9781569473030

Published by SOHO Crime, New York NY, 1998

About this Item

Tursten's debut features the title-named police officer with the Göteborg Sweden Violent Crimes Unit investigating the apparent suicide of a leading business figure the leads to bombings and a murder investigation. This copy is EX-LIB with the labels, stampings of a withdrawn public library book, but with a tight, straight binding. It is a first printing signed by translator Steven T. Murray (aka Reg Keeland of the Steig Larsson series) on the title page with the dustjacket in clear, mylar covering. The book will be carefully wrapped and boxed for shipping.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Detective Inspector Huss **SIGNED**
• Publisher: SOHO Crime, New York NY
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 156947303X
• ISBN 13: 9781569473030
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

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

"An absorbing, intelligent mystery that holds its own alongside the best feminine hardboiled novels currently being written by Englishwomen Val McDermid and Liza Cody, and our own Sara Paretsky."—Maureen Corrigan, NPR, "Fresh Air," Washington Post Book World

"The picture Tursten provides of Sweden’s growing anti-immigrant resentment—embodied in Huss’ skinhead daughter—imbues this novel with a cold chill of dread that can’t be attributed only to the subfreezing temperatures of Göteborg in winter."—Chicago Sun-Times

Inspector Irene Huss, stationed in Göteborg, is called through the rain-drenched wintry 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 the "Society Suicide" turns out to have been a carefully plotted murder. As more murders ensue, she tangles with street gang members, skinheads, immigrants and neo-Nazis—a cross-section of Sweden’s disaffected—in order to catch the killer.

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.


From the Trade Paperback edition.

About the Author

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, and The Glass Devil. She was born in Goteborg, Sweden, where she now lives with her husband and daughter.


From the Trade Paperback edition.