<DIV><p>“The scenes in which Huss tracks her killer through the underbelly of Copenhagen are as good as Louise Welsh’s similarly creepy tour of Glasgow in <I>The Cutting Room.</I>”—<I>Entertainment Weekly</I></p> <p>“[Tursten] is a master at setting the scene, detailing a foreign milieu until it feels familiar. She juggles a large cast of characters with aplomb.”—<I>Time Out Chicago</I></p> <p>“One of the better examples of the Swedish crime fiction invasion.”—<I>Baltimore Sun</I></p> <p>“Outstanding.”—<I>Publishers Weekly</I> (starred review) </p> <p>“Spins a good story . . . this is a solid police procedural.”—<I>Library Journal</I></p> <p>Part of a human torso washes up on a beach near Göteborg, Sweden. It is so mutilated that gender is only established by DNA testing. A similar crime, now several years old, remains unsolved in Denmark. Detective Inspector Irene Huss is dispatched to Copenhagen to liaise with police. Then a third corpse is discovered. This time it’s identified. It is a girl Detective Huss knew; she had been asked by the girl’s mother to locate her missing daughter. A fourth victim, the son of a woman heading the Copenhagen crime squad, is also known to Huss. She fears the killer is tracking her, killing people with whom she is connected. There is even a chilling suggestion that he or she is one of her colleagues. </p> <p> <B>Helene Tursten</B> has been compared to P.D. James in her native Sweden. Her Irene Huss mysteries have been highly praised. She lives in Göteborg, where she was born in 1954.</p></DIV>