Detective Inspector Huss [Paperback]

One of the most prominent citizens of Göteborg, Sweden, plunges to his death off an apartment balcony, but what appears to be a “society suicide” soon reveals itself to be a carefully plotted murder. Irene Huss finds herself embroiled in a complex and high-stakes investigation. As Huss and her team begin to uncover the victim’s hidden past, they are dragged into Sweden’s seamy underworld of street gangs, struggling immigrants, and neo-Nazis in order to catch the killer.Praise forDetective 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 can’t be attributed only to the subfreezing temperatures of Göteborg in winter.”
—Chicago Sun-Times

“An intriguing portrait of the workings of a murder squad as well as modern Swedish life.”
—Portsmouth HeraldHelene Tursten was a nurse and a dentist before she turned to writing. Other books in the Irene Huss series includeNight Rounds,The Torso,The Glass Devil,The Golden Calf,The Beige Man, andThe Treacherous Net. She was born in Göteborg, Sweden, where she now lives with her husband and daughter.Prologue

NOBODY SAW HIM FALL through the dense November darkness.

With a dull, heavy thud he hit the rain-wet pavement. Even though
it was still rush hour, there were few people on the street. The pedestrians
huddled beneath umbrellas turned inside out and scrunched their
chins into turned-up collars l{