While investigating the apparent suicide of a wealthy financier who is connected to one of the most powerful families in Sweden, Detective Inspector Irene Huss soon finds herself immersed in a murder mystery involving motorcycle gang members, skinheads, immigrants, and neo-Nazis.
Helen Tursten has been compared to P.D. James in her native Sweden. Her two subsequent Irene Huss mysteries have been highly praised. She was born in Goteborg in 1954 where she now lives.
Helene Tursten was a nurse and a dentist before she turned to writing. Other books in the Irene Huss series include
Night Rounds,
The Torso, and
The Glass Devil. She was born in Goteborg, Sweden, where she now lives with her husband and daughter.
From the Trade Paperback edition.