Hardback: Irene Huss is a former jujitsu champion, a mother of twin teenage girls, the wife of a successful chef, and a detective inspector with the Violent Crimes Unit in Göteborg, Sweden. Irene Huss is an everywoman - a hardworking wife and mom with grouchy teenage daughters to worry about - but she's also a small-town superhero, a martial arts champion, and an intuitive detective.
It is May and the snow has hardly melted in Göteborg 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 there is the mummified body that is discovered bricked up in a chimney on a demolition site, not to mention the city's ongoing problem with gang violence.
With the sudden influx of cases and one detective out on maternity leave, everyone is stretched thin.
To make matters worse, Irene feels more than a little intimidated by the new superintendent, Efva Thylqvist, who uses her sex appeal and smooth talking to bend the predominately male staff to her will.
Then a second young girl is found, wearing what appears to be the other half of the sexy lingerie set recovered near the firs body.
Fearing the two cases are linked and that the killer may strike again, Irene and her colleagues embark on a desperate hunt that takes them deep into a shadowy world of anonymous online predators and insecure teenage girls on a deadly quest for affirmation.
The Treacherous Net (2015) is the eighth and latest book in the compelling Inspector Huss series. It is translated from the Swedish into the English by the 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 Beige Man. Her books have bee translated into eighteen languages. She was born in Göteborg, Sweden, where she now lives with her husband and daughter.
Rating: 5/5
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