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  • Bibliography:
    15 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1998
  • Latest Book:
    October 2021
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Full Series List in Order

Detective Inspector Embla Nystrom

1 - Hunting Game (Feb-2019)
2 - Winter Grave (Dec-2019)
3 - Snowdrift (Dec-2020)

An Inspector Irene Huss Investigation

1 - Detective Inspector Huss (1998)
2 - The Torso (Apr-2006)
3 - The Glass Devil (Apr-2007)
4 - Night Rounds (Feb-2012)
5 - The Golden Calf (Feb-2013)
6 - The Fire Dance (Jan-2014)
7 - The Beige Man (Feb-2015)
8 - The Treacherous Net (Dec-2015)
9 - Who Watcheth (Dec-2016)
10 - Protected by the Shadows (Dec-2017)

Book List in Order: 15 titles



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    "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 ...



  • Part of a human torso washes up on a beach near Goteborg, Sweden. It is so mutilated that gender is only established by DNA testing. A similar crime, now several years old, remains unsolved in Denmark. Detective Inspector Irene Huss is dispatched to ...



  • The principal of a high school telephones his friend, Inspector Andersson of the Goteborg Crime Police; one of his teachers failed to show up for work. To Inspector Irene Huss' surprise, on the basis of this vague complaint her boss drives out with h...



  • Irene Huss is a former Ju-Jitsu champion, a mother of twin teenage girls, the wife of a successful chef, and a Detective Inspector with the Violent Crimes Unit in Goteborg, Sweden. And now she’s back with a gripping follow-up to Detective Inspector...



  • Soho’s perennially popular Swedish crime series featuring Detective Inspector Irene Huss -- jiujitsu champion, mother of teenage twin girls, and investigator on Göteborg Murder Squad -- is back! Three men have been shot in one of Göteborg's ...



  • Detective Inspector Irene Huss hasn’t seen Sophie Malmborg for over fifteen years, but she’s still haunted by the strange young ballerina’s role in the fire that killed her stepfather. Why had she refused to speak to Irene and the other case wo...



  • A speeding BMW leaves a dead pedestrian in its wake and leads police to the corpse of a young girl in a cellar. Detective Inspector Irene Huss's ensuing investigation draws her into the chilling world of sex trafficking. Göteborg, Sweden: The hig...



  • 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 th...



  • 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. Just a...






  • In this final installment of the internationally bestselling Irene Huss investigations, the Organized Crimes Unit pairs with the Violent Crimes Unit to help defuse the escalating tension between rival gangs in Göteborg, Sweden. But could there be a ...



  • 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 translate...



  • The first installment in Helene Tursten's brand new series featuring the strong, smart Detective Inspector Embla Nyström. Twenty-eight-year-old Embla Nyström has been plagued by chronic nightmares and racing thoughts ever since she can remember....



  • 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 Chr...



  • When a new lead breaks in the cold case that has long haunted Swedish Detective Inspector Embla Nyström, the truth she’s been seeking about her best friend’s disappearance may finally be revealed -- if it doesn’t kill her first. One winter ...



  • Don’t let her age fool you. Maud may be nearly ninety, but if you cross her, this elderly lady is more sinister than sweet.  Just when things have finally cooled down for 88-year-old Maud after the disturbing discovery of a dead body in her ap...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Helene Tursten has published 15 books.

Helene Tursten does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed, was published in October 2021.

The first book by Helene Tursten, Detective Inspector Huss, was published in January 1998.

Yes. Helene Tursten has 2 series.