The Glass Devil (Huss 4)

Author/Guide: Helene Tursten

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1990s: The fourth in the Detective Inspector Huss series

ISBN: 978-1569474891
Genre: Crime, Police Procedural

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What you need to know before your trail

Swedish author Tursten’s third Huss mystery opens with a compelling setup: after Detective Inspector Huss and her team find Jacob Schyttelius, a divorced teacher, shot dead in his isolated cottage, his computer monitor marked with a bloody Satanic symbol. They visit his parents, Sten and Elsa, only to find them dead as well and with the same markings on their computer. Huss focuses her inquiry on Sten, a minister who had been investigating a local Satanist movement. The case takes Inspector Huss from Goteborg to London and eventually leads to a shocking climax.

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Sweden - Vasterbotten
E: Norsjö

Travel Guide

Travel BookTrail style around Gothenburg

Gothenburg is the stomping ground for a take-no-nonsense female DI. Huss is the name – and she works in the Violent Crimes division of the city police. The streets of Gothenburg are mean if you see them through the eyes of DI Huss. She means business and this means working on some tough cases and investigating criminals across the city.

Irene Huss is quite the Swedish cop: “Irene Huss is a 40-something wife, mother, cop, detective and judo expert.”

She is a woman working in a male dominated and very sexist police department. The case here is full of cases that have been in the Swedish Press over the years such as skinheads, Hell’s Angels and all against a background of winter darkness..There’s also a visit to the Vatterbotten part of the country and it’s VERY remote up here.

London

A nice jaunt to London includes a bit of sight-seeing and even a bit of movie locations spotting in Notting Hill