Paperback: Three men have been shot in one of Gothenburg's most fashionable neighbourhoods, sending Irene Huss and her colleagues on a goose chase through a tony world of expensive cars and fancy homes.
All three victims seem to be tied to one person, the glamorous dot-com darling Sanna Kaegler-Ceder, but Sanna isn't talking, even when her own life seems to be at stake.
Swedish Detective Inspector Irene Huss - jiujitsu champion, mother of teenage twin girls, and investigator on Gothenburg murder squad - faces a case of very dirty big money and someone who is willing to kill for it.
About the author: Helene Tursten was born on Gothenburg on the Swedish west coast, where she lives today. She is in fact trained as a nurse and a dentist. After working as a nurse for three years, she decided to go to dental school. It was when she returned to school for her dental degree that Helene met her husband, who had been a policeman. They are still married more than thirty years later with a daughter who is now an adult. The dog in the Inspector Irene Huss Investigation books, Sammie, is based on their real-life dog, who lived to the ripe old age of fifteen.
Helene spent ten years practising dentistry before her career was curtailed due to rheumatic illness. That was when she turned to writing. Today, she has written ten novels about Irene Huss and her colleagues at the police headquarters in Gothenburg. The books have been translated into eighteen languages.
There are also twelve TV films that have been made featuring Detective Inspector Irene Huss. The films have been shown in many European countries. Helene wrote the story synopses and edited all the film scripts in collaboration with professional script writers. Working on the films has been a real kick for her and she thinks has also been good for her books.
"There's a big difference between writing a book and writing a script for a film," Helene says. "When I am working with a film plot I have to think in pictures and within the limitations of a budget. It is very inspiring for me as a writer to think and work in a different way."
The Golden Calf (2013) is the fifth book in the Inspector Irene Huss Investigation series. The Golden Calf was originally published in Sweden, as Guldkalven, in 2003. The Golden Calf is translated from the Swedish into the English by Laura A Wideburg.
The next and sixth book of the Inspector Irene Huss Investigation, The Fire Dance, will be available on 23 January 2014 in both hardback and Kindle forms.
Other books in the Detective Inspector Huss series are Detective Inspector Huss (2003), The Torso (2006), The Glass Devil (2007), and Night Rounds (2012).
Rating: 5/5
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