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“I couldn’t put down this finely crafted, Swedish procedural with its complex story line and heart-stopping climax. In her fourth outing (after The Glass Devil), Huss works intuitively, and her family interactions add extra depth to the novel.” —Library Journal STARRED review
“One of the more domestic in the dark and violent Nordic crime field…. Huss’ investigation delves into the history of the hospital and the local wealthy family who owns it, creating a taut and compelling mystery. —Booklist
“Hurrah for the fad of Scandinavian crime fiction in the United States, because it's pushing and pulling some really good books into translation…. this is the other kind of Scandinavian crime fiction, a sturdy and well put together police investigation of murder and malice, with a detective team that's quietly likable…. it lets the calm braiding of plot threads gleam quietly, proof of Tursten's capable narration and sensible probing of human motivation.” —Kingdom Books
Praise for the Inspector Huss series:
“An absorbing, intelligent mystery that holds its own alongside the best feminine hardboiled novels.”—Maureen Corrigan, NPR, “Fresh Air”
“These days Scandinavian crime writers are thick on the ground. It’s nice to see that the women can be just as bloodthirsty as the men.”—The New York Times Book Review
“As good as Louise Welsh’s similarly creepy tour of Glasgow.”—Entertainment Weekly
“A superior Scandinavian crime novel…. Tursten does an outstanding job of offering multiple plausible murders, making this the rare procedural that actually requires the reader to evaluate alibis, motives, and means to solve the case.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
“The Huss series was one of the earliest of the Swedish crime series to appear in English, thanks to SoHo, and the publisher deserves praise for continuing to translate Huss's novels. Night Rounds shares a supernatural aspect with another Swedish writer, Johan Theorin, but with a lighter and more urban flavor that is less spooky but more contemporary..." —International Noir Fiction
“One of the more domestic in the dark and violent Nordic crime field…. Huss’ investigation delves into the history of the hospital and the local wealthy family who owns it, creating a taut and compelling mystery. —Booklist
“Hurrah for the fad of Scandinavian crime fiction in the United States, because it's pushing and pulling some really good books into translation…. this is the other kind of Scandinavian crime fiction, a sturdy and well put together police investigation of murder and malice, with a detective team that's quietly likable…. it lets the calm braiding of plot threads gleam quietly, proof of Tursten's capable narration and sensible probing of human motivation.” —Kingdom Books
Praise for the Inspector Huss series:
“An absorbing, intelligent mystery that holds its own alongside the best feminine hardboiled novels.”—Maureen Corrigan, NPR, “Fresh Air”
“These days Scandinavian crime writers are thick on the ground. It’s nice to see that the women can be just as bloodthirsty as the men.”—The New York Times Book Review
“As good as Louise Welsh’s similarly creepy tour of Glasgow.”—Entertainment Weekly
“A superior Scandinavian crime novel…. Tursten does an outstanding job of offering multiple plausible murders, making this the rare procedural that actually requires the reader to evaluate alibis, motives, and means to solve the case.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
“The Huss series was one of the earliest of the Swedish crime series to appear in English, thanks to SoHo, and the publisher deserves praise for continuing to translate Huss's novels. Night Rounds shares a supernatural aspect with another Swedish writer, Johan Theorin, but with a lighter and more urban flavor that is less spooky but more contemporary..." —International Noir Fiction
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Irene Huss is a former Ju-Jitsu champion, a mother of twin teenage girls, the wife of a successful chef, and a Detective Inspector with the Violent Crimes Unit in Goteborg, Sweden. And now she’s back with a gripping follow-up to Detective Inspector Huss.
One nurse lies dead and another vanishes after their hospital is hit by a blackout. The only witness claims to have seen Nurse Tekla doing her rounds, but Nurse Tekla died sixty years ago. Detective Inspector Irene Huss of the Violent Crimes Unit has the challenge of disentangling wandering ghosts and complex human relationships to get to the bottom of this intriguing case.
A cult hit in its first three installments, the Irene Huss series is available once again for English-language fans.
One nurse lies dead and another vanishes after their hospital is hit by a blackout. The only witness claims to have seen Nurse Tekla doing her rounds, but Nurse Tekla died sixty years ago. Detective Inspector Irene Huss of the Violent Crimes Unit has the challenge of disentangling wandering ghosts and complex human relationships to get to the bottom of this intriguing case.
A cult hit in its first three installments, the Irene Huss series is available once again for English-language fans.
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4.0 out of 5 stars (27 customer reviews)
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Solid Sandinavian procedural, Jan 2 2012
By Alan A. Elsner "Alan Elsner, author" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Night Rounds: A Detective Inspector Irene Huss Investigation (Hardcover)
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The American taste for Scandinavian crime fiction seems to have no end. All it seems is necessary to entice publishers is a dark Goteborg or Malmo setting and a bunch of Swedish names with umlauts. We apparently can't get enough of sentences like, "We decided to take Vilans Vag to Drottninggatan and from there to Finfallet where we could take the short cut to Sunsberget."Reading all these books, one would think that Norway and Sweden are the most crime-ridden countries in Europe with serial killers and psychos lurking around every corner -- instead of two of the most placid, orderly and law abiding countries in the world.
Some of the wave of Scandawegian writers are truly exceptional talents. I would not put Helene Tursten in that class. This is a very sold, well-constructed police procedural that starts pretty slowly and eventually works its way to a fairly predictable solution. The final denouement scene is a very weak let-down. The prose is workmanlike but rarely evocative.
The setting of this book is Goteborg, Sweden's second city, but there really isn't much sense of place. Inspector Irene Huss, the main protagonist, is a mother of two teenager girls, wife of a chef and also a deadly practitioner of jujitsu. She is surrounded in the station house by the usual collection of Nordic types -- a couple of male sexists, a taciturn Finn (are all Finns taciturn?) etc etc. Huss is a sympathetic heroine, a nice woman one wouldn't mind having a cup of coffee with -- but she doesn't have enough in the way of personal demons to be truly fascinating.
The team is investigating a mysterious double murder that takes place one cold night in a small private hospital. The one witness, an elderly nurse, insists she sees the ghost of another nurse who committed suicide decades before and whose ghost is said to haunt the precincts. More vicious murders follow and bodies are found.
To figure it all out will take some teamwork, lots of patient sifting and a couple of flashes of intuition from Huss and her colleagues.
I can say I enjoyed this book without ever being enthralled. Goteborg is the home of Volvo -- and this novel reads a little as if it rolled off the Swedish assembly line.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
3 1/2 Stars and It was First Published in 1999, Jan 15 2012
By Sires "I like mysteries (particularly British... - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Night Rounds: A Detective Inspector Irene Huss Investigation (Hardcover)
Pre-release customer review from the Amazon Vine™ Program
I had left the ARC I received from Amazon on my desk where a coworker picked it up and carried it off to read. When she brought it back I asked what she thought about it. She wrinkled her nose and admitted that it was ok, but she had not thought a Swedish police force would be so sexist. Further it bothered her that the main character was always sizing up the people she met in the course of her investigation as to how attractive they were. There was also a lot of exercising going on in the book.Well, the book was first published in Sweden as Nattrond in 1999. The publisher would be doing everyone a favor if they would head the first chapter with the year and the name of the city. While it has been established that there is a market in the US for Scandinavian crime novels, there is also a temporal factor that the reader needs to consider when reading about a book written for popular culture even a decade or so ago.
I don't know why it's called Night Rounds because the private hospital in the book has one patient recovering from surgery in the ICU and four others spending the night in the ward. It's a bit of a gothic pile build in the 19th century and haunted, so it was said by a nurse who hanged herself in the attic in 1947. Then this particular night the power goes out, the back up generator fails to kick in and the patient in ICU dies. A young nurse who was supposed to be watching him disappears and an older nurse is terrified because she things she has seen the ghost dressed in an old fashion nurse uniform. The police are called in to investigate.
Meanwhile Irene Huss, aside from her investigation, also has to deal with her misogynistic boss, her twin daughters, and her chef husband.
It's not bad but there are some hanging threads in the background story.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Supernatural Detective Story, Jan 9 2012
By Coding Genius "CG" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Night Rounds: A Detective Inspector Irene Huss Investigation (Hardcover)
Pre-release customer review from the Amazon Vine™ Program
Mystery novels with cerebral heroines have become popular, a la Kathy Reichs or Patricia Cornwell. Although Inspector Huss is not a physician or anthropologist, Tursten's medical background shines through in this novel.Set in Sweden, a "haunted" hospital is an intriguing setting for a murder, and the murder is only the beginning of the mystery. The characters are interesting and the author's attention to both medical and police procedure adds to the realism and atmosphere.
Until the last 10% of the book, the truth is unclear. Within the conclusion, every loose end is tied up satisfactorily and foreshadowing throughout the book is revealed. It is during this last part that Tursten's skill shines through.
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