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As the title suggests, snow drifts are frequent in Embla’s world, along with the phenomenon of ‘snow smoke’. Her descriptions of wind and snow are noticeable and create a teeming atmosphere. References to the area where Tursten herself grew up and the weather conditions are spread throughout. There are still plenty of the required crime fiction elements, including a convincing, high-octane action scene, but it seems less sombre than the author’s previous books. In comparison to earlier novels like The Torso and The Glass Devil, Snowdrift has a lighter, less grisly touch. For example, Embla’s only baggage is her chronic nightmares and accompanying guilt due to Lollo’s disappearance. According to Tursten, she wants to create a normal female detectives with normal lives and families who also happen to be good cops. Nonetheless Huss still makes the odd appearance and briefly stars in Snowdrift.īoth Irene Huss and Embla are strong female characters who are level-headed and practical without the emotional baggage that usually accompanies archetypal male detectives.

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Now Embla Nyström has taken over from Huss in a new series which started with Hunting Game.

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Many Scandinavian crime fiction lovers will be familiar with Helene Tursten’s character Detective Inspector Irene Huss, who appeared in 10 books and two seasons of a TV series. But could the motivation behind these gruesome killings really be that simple?

When the remains of a man are found in a burnt down house in Split all fingers point to a rival gang. Meanwhile Luca is also found killed and his wife Kader and their children have disappear from their home in Croatia. However, the teenage witnesses at the scene of Robin Petterson’s murder and their hostile parents seem to be hiding secrets which might shed light on both murders. Whether the two murders in the same area are connected is for Embla and Olle to figure out. Fortunately the misunderstanding is cleared up and shortly after they join forces on another murder case – that of an 18-year-old high school student fatally stabbed during a party. Now he has been brutally slaughtered with his brother Luca’s gun.īefore Embla can make sense of his death, Inspector Olle Tillman from the nearby town of Åmål threatens to arrest her for trespassing at the crime scene. For years Embla has lived in fear after being threatened by Milo to keep what happened that night a secret. Milo and his two brothers, Luca and Kadar, were suspected of Lollo’s abduction on the fateful night she convinced Embla to go with her to meet her new, secret boyfriend. The victim has been shot in the head at close range with a high calibre weapon and is none other than Milo Stavic, one of Europe’s major crime bosses operating from Embla’s hometown, Gothenburg.

This time it’s her uncle’s cousin, Harald, who runs a guesthouse where one of his guests has been brutally murdered. While visiting her uncle Nisse with Elliot, the son of an ex-boyfriend whom she has taken under her wing, she receives another call. Is it possible Lollo is still alive and trying to contact her? When Embla’s phone rings late one night and the caller utters the name Åsa, Embla’s birth name, her terrible memories of the night Lollo disappeared return. Her disappearance remains a cold case for the police. Lollo disappeared 15 years earlier, allegedly kidnapped by the Stavic brothers, gangsters operating in Gothenburg. Snowdrift picks up only eight days after the end of 2019’s Winter Grave when Embla receives a call from her childhood friend, Louise Lindqvist, also known as Lollo. Translated by Marlaine Delargy - Detective Inspector Embla Nyström returns in the third instalment of Helene Tursten’s series based on the detective.

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