Helene Tursten (born in Gothenburg on February 17, 1954) is a Swedish writer of crime fiction. The main character in her stories is Detective Inspector Irene Huss. Before becoming an author, Tursten worked as a nurse and then a dentist, but was forced to leave due to illness. During her illness, she worked as a translator of medical articles.
Police investigator Irene Huss lives in Gothenburg, Sweden, and tries to balance between murder investigations and family life.
Release Date2007-08-17
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenstory
Episode Count12
Vote Count6
Two Boy Scouts find a buried female body in a desolate field. Irene Huss and her team begin to investigate the case. As the investigation continues, more graves are discovered, each containing a buried female body along with what appears to be a personal item. It is now clear that a horrific serial killer is rampaging in the area. The police are very puzzled and cannot find a connection between the victims other than that they are middle-aged women. At the same time, Irene begins to feel persecuted...
Release Date2011-07-06
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count8
A man jumps from a balcony and dies. His terrified wife witnesses the event in a nearby taxi cab. Once Irene Huss arrives on the scene, it soon turns out that what appeared to be a tragic suicide is actually a brutal murder, and the victim is one of Gothenburg's wealthiest men. When it becomes clear that a biker gang is involved, the investigation gets even more complicated and Irene finds herself tracking down a shrewd and dangerous murderer among ex-millionaires, motorcycle gangs, drug dealers, and blackmailers. At the same time, she has to deal with everyday life and a teenage daughter who has decided to join a gang of skinheads with Neo-Nazi tendencies.
Release Date2008-03-05
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count8
On a beach in Gothenburg found parts of a dismembered man's body. The only thing that is going on, a tattoo on the torso. Irene Huss finds similar previous cases that will take her to Copenhagen, where she is forced to look for a friend's daughter who disappeared. Likfyndet will be the prelude to more nasty murders that lead Irene to Copenhagen's underworld.
Release Date2007-08-16
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count13
A young man is found dead, dumped in a container. The body is naked, bloody and battered. An autopsy shows the victim was GHB in the body and have suffered whiplash, cuts and burns. Everything indicates that he has been kidnapped and sexually abused and tortured. There seems to be an organized gang has done this before, this is just the first time the victim has died. The tracks leading to a nightclub that Irene's daughter Jenny and her friend's visit, unaware of the danger. Irene Huss and her colleagues have a problem with the investigation when those who become victims do not report crimes because of shame, and for fear that someone will find out what happened.
Release Date2011-10-05
DepartmentWriting
JobCharacters
Vote Count6
In a small community near Gothenburg three members of a family priest brutally murdered. The walls are covered with up-and-inverted pentagram - the symbol of the devil's face - painted there by the victims blod.Kriminalinspektör Irene Huss drag quickly parallels to a previous case in which a priest was murdered. Even in that case there were satanic connections. But the deeper Irene Huss digs in case the more convinced she becomes that the clergy are not always as pious as they should be
Release Date2008-06-11
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count4
A bicycle messenger sees a girl being brutally assaulted and dragged into a van. She immediately calls the police, but unfortunately the girl is found too late. It turns out that the murdered girl has been the victim of a serious sexual crime. Detective Inspector Irene Huss and the rest of the team begin to look for the murderer, but have very few clues to go on. When another young girl is murdered in a similar way, the team realizes that they are dealing with a sexual predator. How does he get in touch with the girls? Why do they agree to meet him? Why are they wearing special underwear?
Release Date2011-08-10
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count9
A young beautiful woman is found dead in Göta Älv and on her finger she wears a brilliant-set wedding ring that belongs to someone else. Detective Inspector Irene Huss and her colleagues are put on the case and immediately run into problems. The autopsy shows that the cause of death is not drowning but a head injury. Who is she? She is not missing, no one can identify her, no one knows anything. Meanwhile, in a run-down barracks area, an abused man is sitting and brooding over a terrible secret... Angela Kovács returns in the role of Irene Huss. We also get to see Lasse Brandeby, Reuben Sallmander, Eric Ericson, Dag Malmberg and Anki Lidén again. In addition, a new forensic technician joins the team in the form of Moa Gammel, known from, among others, Summer with Göran. Finally, the hit series about Irene Huss is back, again this time based on Helene Tursten's best-selling detective series, and with more excitement than ever.
Release Date2011-12-07
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count7
A series of arsons is affecting Gothenburg. The leads brings Irene Huss to an unsolved case that happened 15 years ago. Meanwhile, a lady gets murdered in the archipelago, and at first it seems like the cases have nothing in common. Irene's investigation of the murder case leads her back far in time where secrets which are forgotten long ago come to the surface again. Irene's hard work gets even more complicated when she finds out that her daughter is a bully in school.
Release Date2008-07-09
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count4
A man is found executed in the harbor. Irene Huss and her team are put on the case and everything points to a deal in the underworld. But eventually Irene realizes that the case has a personal connection. After a bombing, she is suddenly drawn into a blackmailing scheme where no one is safe - least of all her family. The police and prosecutors are powerless against the criminal gangs and Irene is finally forced to take matters into her own hands...
Release Date2011-11-09
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count10
A man is found shot dead in the trunk of a car. Four fingers on one hand have been cut off. The man was a co-owner of an online poker company that quickly grew into a multi-million dollar business before going bankrupt. Shortly thereafter, another co-owner is found murdered. The third and final co-owner, Sanna, is still alive but lives under constant threat. The police eventually find three of the first victim's severed fingers, but where is the fourth finger? Who will the killer send the last finger to? And why were the fingers severed? The investigation leads Irene Huss into a world unknown to her, of expensive luxury cars and magnificent villas in exclusive locations, where Russian caviar is an everyday food and the champagne is genuine, expensive, and constantly flowing. On a personal level, Irene is convinced that her husband Krister is having an affair.
Release Date2008-09-17
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count5
A blackout leaves the distinguished halls of the Löwanderska Hospital in complete darkness. Doctor Sverker Löwander hears the alarm when one of the ventilators go off, and rushes to the intensive care unit only to find the nurse in charge dead in the stairwell and the other disappeared without a trace. When DI Irene Huss arrives, the only witness claims to have seen Nurse Tekla doing her rounds. There's only one slight problem: Nurse Tekla committed suicide at the hospital sixty years ago.
Release Date2008-04-30
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count7
After an elder man gets hit by a stolen car, the police decides to investigate it. The stolen car is later found next to a murdered young girl, prompting Inspector Irene Huss and her co-workers to investigate and slowly get pulled into a world of evil.
Release Date2011-09-07
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count6
