Book cover for The Beige Man by Helene Tursten

The Beige Man

2015 Released
336 Pages
5-6 Hours
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Soho CrimeISBN 9781616954017
Translated by Marlaine Delargy

A speeding BMW leaves a dead pedestrian in its wake and leads police to the corpse of a young girl in a cellar. Detective Inspector Irene Huss's ensuing investigation draws her into the chilling world of sex trafficking.

Göteborg, Sweden: The high-speed chase of a stolen BMW takes a chilling turn when the two police officers involved witness a gruesome hit-and-run. When they finally recover the abandoned vehicle, search dogs are unable to trace the thieves, but they do uncover an entirely different horror: the half-naked corpse of a young girl in a nearby root cellar.

As Detective Inspector Irene Huss and her colleagues struggle to put the pieces together, they discover the man whose car was stolen—a retired police officer—is none other than the victim in the hit-and-run. Could it be a strange coincidence? Or is something larger at play? Meanwhile, the hunt for the girl’s killer leads Irene into the dark world of sex trafficking. An international criminal has arrived in Göteborg, and he’ll stop at nothing to expand his sinister operation.

Marlaine Delargy

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Marlaine Delargy studied Swedish and German at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. She has translated novels by many writers, including Viveca Sten and John Ajvide Lindqvist, as well as Johan Theorin and Henning Mankell, two authors with whom she won the Crime Writers' Association International Dagger.

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