Hardback: 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 few days before her death, the victim had received a flower, an unintelligible note, and a photograph of herself.
Detective Inspector Irene Huss and her colleagues on the Violent Crimes Unit in Göteborg, Sweden, have neither clue nor motive to pursue, and when similar murders follow, their search for the killer becomes increasingly desperate.
Meanwhile, strange things have been going on at home for Irene: first the rose bush in her garden is mangled, then she receives a threatening package with no return address.
Is Irene being paranoid, or is she next on the killer's list?
Who Watcheth (2016) is the latest and ninth instalment in one of the best feminine hardboiled Inspector Irene Huss investigation series currently being written with a much-loved heroine.
Who Watcheth is translated from the Swedish by Marlaine Delargy.
A new Inspector Irene Huss book and the tenth chronologically - Protected by the Shadows - will be released on 14 December 2017.
About the author: Helene Tursten was a nurse and a dentist before she turned to writing. Her books have been translated into eighteen languages and made into a television series. She was born in Göteborg, Sweden, where she now lives with her husband and daughter.
Marlaine Delargy works as a translator and adult learning support tutor. She has translated novels by Åsa Larsson and Johan Theorin, among others, and serves on the editorial board of the Swedish Book Review. She lives in Shropshire, England.
Rating: 5/5
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