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A review by melissa_who_reads
The Torso by Helene Tursten
3.0
This one was a difficult one -- darker, more tense than the other ones. The story starts with a body part being found -- part of a torso in a black plastic garbage bag, tossed in the sea. As the police move forward trying to identify the body based on the little they have (they eventually find a few more parts in black plastic garbage bags), a tattoo points them to Copenhagen, and so off to Denmark Inspector Huss goes.
There she finds that the story began two years earlier, as the Danish police have an unsolved murder mystery with a similarly mutilated body. The body count, both in Copenhagen and in Goteborg, begins to add up -- and even when the bodies are as completely gutted as in the first two, there are enough similarities that the forensic pathologists in both countries are convinced it's the same murderer.
The plot revolves around as darkly perverse sexual kinks as one can imagine, and was really fairly tense as the murderer seemed to be aware of Irene and her investigation .... and one step ahead. And Irene develops a knack for making a few mistakes in this one, perhaps thrown off by being in Copenhagen for some of the investigation rather than her home turf.
Did like it, was engrossed throughout, but now ... am ready to take a short break from Detective Inspector Huss, just to recover from some of the images at play in this book.
There she finds that the story began two years earlier, as the Danish police have an unsolved murder mystery with a similarly mutilated body. The body count, both in Copenhagen and in Goteborg, begins to add up -- and even when the bodies are as completely gutted as in the first two, there are enough similarities that the forensic pathologists in both countries are convinced it's the same murderer.
The plot revolves around as darkly perverse sexual kinks as one can imagine, and was really fairly tense as the murderer seemed to be aware of Irene and her investigation .... and one step ahead. And Irene develops a knack for making a few mistakes in this one, perhaps thrown off by being in Copenhagen for some of the investigation rather than her home turf.
Did like it, was engrossed throughout, but now ... am ready to take a short break from Detective Inspector Huss, just to recover from some of the images at play in this book.