Helene Tursten Books in Order

A late-night phone call from a voice she thought long dead drags Embla back into the cold case of her best friend Lollo’s disappearance. At the same time, two criminal brothers are shot in rural guesthouses, and following their surviving sibling may be the only way to the truth.

In this second Maud collection, a planned trip to South Africa and unwelcome attention from curious detectives stir up memories of the deaths that have shadowed her since childhood. The stories reveal how far this seemingly harmless old lady will go to keep control of her life.

Back on duty near the coastal town of Stromstad, Embla leads the search for a nine-year-old girl who vanished after accepting a ride from a withdrawn teenager. When a second child disappears and a policeman is murdered, she races to stop a vigilante backlash and face echoes of her own past.

Detective Inspector Embla Nystrom takes a break from her mobile crimes unit for the annual moose hunt with family and old friends in rural Dalsland. After ominous pranks and rising tensions, a hunter is found dead, and Embla must investigate a killer hidden within the group.

This collection of linked stories introduces Maud, an irritable eighty-eight-year-old living alone in Gothenburg who fiercely guards her rent-free apartment and quiet life. When people threaten her comfort or safety, she responds with cunning, darkly funny acts of carefully arranged violence.

Rival gangs are pushing Gothenburg toward open war when a biker is burned alive and a bomb is planted under Irene Huss’s husband’s car. Working with organized-crime detectives, she hunts for both the killers and the police mole feeding them information before her family pays the price.

A woman is found strangled in a cemetery, wrapped in plastic, days after receiving a flower, a strange note, and a photo of herself. As similar deaths follow, Irene Huss realizes a moralistic stalker is judging women by his own twisted rules, and she may be next.

In early spring, the naked, scarred body of a teenage girl is discovered in the woods outside Gothenburg, and another goes missing soon after. Irene Huss and her overworked team track a predator who lures vulnerable girls through anonymous online chats and social media.

A stolen BMW mows down a pedestrian outside the police station, then turns up abandoned near the corpse of a teenage girl hidden in a root cellar. Irene Huss follows the trail into a ruthless sex-trafficking ring where young women are treated as disposable cargo.

When the charred body of a young dancer turns up in an abandoned warehouse, Irene Huss is forced to revisit one of her earliest cases. The victim is Sophie Malmborg, a ballerina who, as a child, survived a deadly fire that has never stopped haunting Irene.

Three men are gunned down in one of Gothenburg’s wealthiest neighborhoods, all linked to glamorous internet entrepreneur Sanna Kaegler-Ceder. Irene Huss’s hunt for the shooter leads through start-up fortunes, toxic partnerships, and the personal cost of chasing success at any price.

During a stormy night at a small private hospital, the power fails, a patient on a respirator dies, and a nurse is found strangled while another disappears. As staff whisper about a ghostly figure, Irene Huss uncovers long-buried affairs, grudges, and cover-ups.

A popular teacher is found shot in his remote cottage, and his parents are soon discovered murdered in their bed, each crime marked by satanic symbols. Irene Huss follows a trail from a troubled parish in rural Sweden to the victim’s fragile sister in London.

A mutilated torso washes up on a Swedish beach, its identity and gender erased. Irene Huss joins forces with Danish detectives, tracing the victim’s connections through artists, ex-lovers, and a parallel case in Copenhagen as the investigation creeps dangerously close to her own circle.

Tycoon Richard von Knecht falls from his Gothenburg balcony in what looks like suicide, but Detective Inspector Irene Huss quickly sees signs of murder. Following money trails, biker gangs, and bombings, she must untangle the secrets of Sweden’s elite before the killer strikes again.