Night Rounds, Helene Tursten
Night Rounds, Helene Tursten
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Night Rounds

Author: Helene Tursten

Narrator: Suzanne Toren

Unabridged: 12 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/01/2012

Synopsis

Irene Huss is a former jujitsu 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.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 the first three novels of the series, the Irene Huss novels are available once again for English-language fans.

About Helene Tursten

Helene Tursten is a Swedish author who was a nurse and a dentist before she turned to writing. She is the author of the Irene Huss series, the Embla Nystrom series; and the Elderly Lady series of connected short stories. Her books have been translated into twenty-five languages and made into a television series.

About Suzanne Toren

Suzanne Toren has over thirty years of experience in narration. She has won the American Foundation for the Blind’s Scourby Award for Narrator of the Year, AudioFile magazine named her the 2009 Best Voice in Nonfiction & Culture, and she is the recipient of multiple Earphones Awards.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kathy

I had read a few of these books years ago and thought I ought to circle back to the second in the series where Irene has the opportunity to display her judo moves more than once -- like, is she the most banged up detective ever? Me thinks so. Anyway...I wanted to refresh her family status, etc. befor......more

Goodreads review by Huda

Night Rounds wins my vote in 'Highest Number of Outrageous Texts'. My copy of the book is littered with underlines, circled errors and comments... but there's too many to highlight them all here. I really wanted to like this book though, I was excited thanks to the premise and the author's backgroun......more

Goodreads review by Bill

I read the 1st Inspector Huss mystery by Swedish author Helene Tursten back in 2012 and actually didn't finish it. I don't know if it was the translation or the actual story but it just didn't seem to work. So it took me quite awhile to even consider trying another book in the series. It was very di......more

Goodreads review by Ed

Irene Huss, Detective Inspector in the Gothenburg, Sweden police force is a person you would like to know and, especially, a person you would want on your side in a crisis. She is an intuitive investigator who also follows accepted procedure--other than when the exigences of the plot force her to do......more

Awards

  • Library Journal Best Book
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