Five quietly sinister and entirely plausible tales of a woman in her eighties who discovers she can get away with murder This is a delightfully mischievous read, especially at Christmas, when one of the stories is set. In Maud, Helene Tursten has produced as an intriguing villain: an old lady...
This is exactly the kind of murder I'm in the mood for. More stories about women upwards of "a certain age" who can get away with murder. That's much more fun than solving one.I've been a fan of the Christmas murder story nearly as long as I can remember: there was a tiny book of four short stories ...
Quite a good Swedish mystery. Likeable MC and interesting solution. Like most Nordic Noir, not for the faint of heart. Lots of violence, sexual violence and child abuse. My edition was the Soho crime paperback, which are satisfying to read. Nice size, nice paper, appealing covers. I grab them a...
Irene Huss is the Nordic detective you need. She has a husband who is a chef, twin daughters, and a unneuter male dog who has fathered puppies who all need a home. The most upsetting home problem is that one of the daughter is a vegan. The horror is in the work where in one of those scenes that a...
I love anthologies like this. When your schedule is crazy & you find it difficult to make any progress on a full-meal book, these provide the perfect snack. Here we have 18 stories with an interesting theme. All are set around the Xmas season. But that’s about all they have in common as the authors ...
The Detective Inspector Huss series gets good reviews as Scandi-crime so I bought the first book in the hope of having a new series to follow. I'm now forty percent mark and I'm setting it aside.Maybe my mistake was going back to the first book. The Swedish version of the book was published in 1998,...
He can be your guardian or your punisher depending on whether you follow his rules. Of course, that can be a bit challenging since you aren’t aware you’re being stalked. The 9th instalment in this series can be summed up with a big “eeewww” as we join Irene Huss & her team on the hunt for a serial...
The second novel featuring Detective Inspector Irene Huss. DI Huss is hunting down a cunning killer with a passion for butchering his victims. When a torso in a garbage bag is found on a beach near Goteborg, Huss finds herself both hunter and prey. The plot is fast pace, the characters are interesti...
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