Reviews for The Glass Devil (Inspector Irene Huss Series #3)

The average rating for The Glass Devil (Inspector Irene Huss Series #3) based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-03-26 00:00:00 Michael Easter This book serves as my introduction to DI Irene Huss of the Goteberg police force. I read the 2007 paperback, year of translation to English. Huss and her boss, Superintendent Andersson, drive out to a remote cottage to check on a missing teacher from the charter school where his cousin was principal. Having worked for Andersson for 15 years, this was the first time Huss had ever heard of a cousin. The discoveries on this trip become the focus of a murder investigation as the cottage gives them the first body, soon to be followed by driving over to the home of the teacher's parents and finding more death with Pentagrams drawn in blood on computer screens at both locations. There are some strange meetings with one magnetic New Ager who seems overly fond of her glass devil, but the need to go to the one remaining family member takes Huss on her first trip to London. In addition to gathering evidence and conducting interviews with the help of a London detective, Huss is grabbed off the street by notorious and vicious criminal allowing her to utilize her jujitsu skills in stopping that plot and sending two men to hospital. The case also allows Huss to make a second trip to London as well as Edinburgh so we get a little travelogue in both spots including famous landmarks to add spice to a police investigation. I will look for more clean paperbacks from this series next visit to the library. This one held my interest.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-09-18 00:00:00 Michael Mcmanaway Excellent read, this series get's better and better. The only annoying parts were those played in the UK, which were very cliched. London police, just like the rest of the world, hasn't driven in a "Rover" way before the time this book is set, etc. You could feel that Tursten only knew the tourist London/UK , which is ok but then don't make such a issue about it. Didn't see the answer to the crime till the last few pages, although I didn't believe in the red herring as well. Expected quite a different solution because of the first few pages, cleverly done. Already ordered the next in the series.