Winter Grave, Helene Tursten
Winter Grave, Helene Tursten
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Winter Grave

Author: Helene Tursten, Marlaine Delargy

Narrator: Stina Nielsen

Unabridged: 9 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 12/03/2019


Synopsis

In this thrilling mystery set in rural Sweden, Detective Inspector Embla Nyström must solve a murder case and find two missing children before the small town takes matters into their own hands.

When a little girl disappears a few weeks before Christmas, suspicion falls on the last person she was seen with: the mentally disabled teenage boy who gave her a ride home after school. Complicating the matter is the fact that detectives can hardly get a word out of him. When a second child disappears and a police officer is found dead, tensions in the small town of Strömstad reach an all-time high.

Meanwhile, 28-year-old Detective Inspector Embla Nyström has just returned to work and is still recovering from her recent brush with a killer, which left her unable to get back in the ring to defend her title of Nordic light welterweight champion. As she hunts for the missing children, Embla can’t help but think of the case that has been haunting her for years: the disappearance of her childhood best friend. Could the incidents be linked? With the passing of each dark winter day, the odds of finding the children alive shrink, and desperation mounts. Their parents want answers and will stop at nothing to get them.

About Helene Tursten

Helene Tursten was a nurse and a dentist before she turned to writing. She is the author of the Irene Huss series, including Detective Inspector Huss, Night Rounds, Who Watcheth, and Protected by the Shadows; the Embla Nystrom series; and the short story collection An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good. Her books have been translated into twenty-five languages and made into a television series. She was born in Gothenburg, Sweden, where she now lives with her husband.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Barbara on January 13, 2020

“Winter Grave” is a suspenseful novel taking place in the Swedish countryside. Two young children mysteriously vanish, both close to home and late afternoon/early evening. Detective Embla Nystrom and her squad are called in to investigate. While they are investigating, a major drug lord is found sla......more

Goodreads review by Bam cooks the books on January 22, 2021

*3-3.5 stars. Every parent's nightmare: a child disappears without a trace between home and school. In this police procedural set in Sweden, the police are baffled. The public wants to blame a young autistic man who gave her a ride earlier but he has an alibi. When another child disappears, the pres......more

Goodreads review by Laura on October 19, 2019

I have a love/hate relationship with series books that don't require you to have read the previous books but when you're done reading you realize that you really do need to go back because you enjoyed what you read. This is one of those books (and yes, I know, I'm meant to be taking things off the T......more

Goodreads review by Denise on December 05, 2019

This crime thriller set in rural Sweden by an author new to me was an engaging introduction to Detective Inspector Embla Nyström of Vastra Gotaland County Bureau of Investigation Mobile Unit. She and her two colleagues, Superintendent Goran Krantz and Hampus Stahre, are sent to help in Stromstad aft......more