Author: helenetursten

Swedish detective Embla Nyström has long been haunted by the disappearance of her best friend 14 years earlier. But one winter night, a phone call from an all-too-familiar voice sets in motion a chain of increasingly shocking events… A “stunning page-turner” with “a bombshell twist” (Publishers Weekly starred review).

Maud is an irascible 88-year-old Swedish woman with no family, no friends, and… no qualms about a little murder. This funny, irreverent story collection by Helene Tursten, author of the Irene Huss investigations, features two-never-before translated stories that will keep you laughing all the way to the retirement home.Ever since her darling father’s untimely death when she was only eighteen, … was only eighteen, Maud has lived in the family’s spacious apartment in downtown Gothenburg rent-free, thanks to a minor clause in a hastily negotiated contract. That was how Maud learned that good things can come from tragedy. Now in…