Working the night shift in any situation is often lonely
and a little spooky. But no more so than in a hospital,
where death lurks around every corner. And on this night
at Lowander Hospital in Goteborg, Sweden, death has a
mysterious helper who is stalking the nurses on their night
rounds.
In Helen Tursten's novel, NIGHT ROUNDS, she once again
calls upon her character, Swedish detective Irene Huss, to
solve a baffling crime that has the city on edge.
One nurse is murdered and another is missing from a small,
private hospital in the chilly seaside city of Goteborg,
and the only witnesses are blaming the ghost of a nurse
that has been dead for sixty-something years. But something
doesn't add up, and bit by bit, with repeated inspections,
and multiple interrogations and re-interrogations, Huss and
her colleagues begin to put together the puzzle of who did
what and why they did it.
Meanwhile, Huss must live a somewhat double life, juggling
her home life with her professional one. At home, one
daughter has become a militant vegan and her chef husband,
who Huss feels should really lose a little weight to stay
healthy, is furious. The dog needs walking, her hair needs
coloring, and her mother needs visiting. It never ends.
I particularly enjoyed the fact that Irene Huss is not a
super-sleuth. She's just a woman doing her job in a man's
world, and that's the charm and strength of NIGHT ROUNDS.
As
the mother of twin teenage girls, wife of a talented,
temperamental chef, dutiful daughter of a chatty widow with
a new boyfriend, and best friend of her male police
partner, Huss's skill in crime solving is grounded in her
skill at maintaining her relationships and having keen
observation skills, keeping a close eye on the world around
her. She's a force to be reckoned with as a third dan black
belt in Ju-Jitsu, but she uses smart soft skills like
strategic silence, tactical flattery and sincere
consideration more often than force in her investigations.
She's a hero in my eyes for sure.
Although NIGHT RUONDS was originally a Swedish novel, the
translation comes across with all the nuances of mystery
and intrigue that the tale requires. This is a gritty,
mesmerizing story that will leave readers breathless and
enthralled.
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.
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