I am having a lot of New Year luck on the book reading front! To sum up The Torso - brilliant police procedural, brilliant plot, brilliant writing, excellent characterization and most highly recommended. Do check the series out!
Hardback blurb: Part of a human torso washes up on a beach near Goteburg, 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, a wife and mother as well as a member of the Swedish Violent Crimes unit, is called upon to liaise with the police in Copenhagen. There she finds a clue: a beautifully rendered sign for a gay sex shop which is very like the tattoo on the mutilated torso.
Then a third murder takes place, and a fourth, and these new victims are connected to Inspector Huss. She begins to fear that the killer is tracking her, targeting her acquaintances. There is a chilling suggestion that he - or she - is one of her colleagues.
About Helene Tursten: Helene Tursten has been compared to P D James in her native Sweden. Her Irene Huss mysteries have been highly praised. The Torso is also available on film and DVDs, produced by Yellow Bird, Scandinavia's most prolific company in film and TV drama, and Illusion Film. Tursten was a nurse and a dentist before she turned to writing. She was born in Goteburg where she now lives with her husband and daughter. The Torso (2006) is translated from the Swedish into the English by Katarina E Tucker.
The Torso trailer:
I like Maxine Clark's review.
Rating: 6/5
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