num_pages: 368
description: Part of a human torso washes up on a beach near Göteborg, 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 is dispatched to Copenhagen to liaise with police. Then a third corpse is discovered. This time it’s identified. It is a girl Detective Huss knew; she had been asked by the girl’s mother to locate her missing daughter. A fourth victim, the son of a woman heading the Copenhagen crime squad, is also known to Huss. She fears the killer is tracking her, killing people with whom she is connected. There is even a chilling suggestion that he or she is one of her colleagues. Helene Tursten has been compared to P.D. James in her native Sweden. Her Irene Huss mysteries have been highly praised. She lives in Göteborg, where she was born in 1954.
language: English
title: The Torso
titlecomplete: The Torso (Inspector Huss #3)
characters: Irene Huss
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Sweden, Scandinavian Literature, Thriller, Suspense, Swedish Literature, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Detective
ratings_count: 2938
places: Copenhagen, Denmark, Göteborg, Sweden
series: Inspector Huss
publisher: Soho Crime