Paperback: Göteborg, Sweden: The high-speed chase of a stolen BMW takes a chilling turn when the two police officers involved witness a gruesome hit-and-run.
When they finally recover the abandoned vehicle, search dogs are unable to trace the thieves, but they do uncover a different horror: the half-naked corpse of a young girl in a nearby root cellar.
As Detective Inspector Irene Huss and her colleagues struggle to put the pieces together, they discover the man whose car was stolen - a retired police officer - is none other than the victim in the hit-and-run.
Could it be a strange coincidence?
Or is something larger at play?
Meanwhile, the hunt for the girl's killer leads Irene into the dark world of sex trafficking.
An international criminal has arrived in Göteborg and he will stop at nothing to expand his sinister operation.
One of Soho Crime's best-selling series, Swedish Detective Inspector Irene Huss is another example of why the Scandinavian crime fiction trend is so hot. The Beige Man (2015) is the seventh book in the excellent Inspector Irene Huss series. It is translated from the Swedish into the English by critically acclaimed literary translator Marlaine Delargy.
About the author: Helene Tursten was a nurse and a dentist before she turned to writing. Other books in the Irene Huss series include Detective Inspector Huss, Night Rounds, The Torso, The Glass Devil, The Golden Calf, The Fire Dance and The Treacherous Net. She was born in Göteborg, Sweden, where she now lives with her husband and daughter.
Rating: 5/5
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