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Posted: July 11, 2021 Book Review Tursten, Helene (2018).  Snowdrift. This is the third volume in Helen Tursten’s Embla Nystrõm series.  She has reportedly been quite successful with her longer Detective Inspector Irene Huss series, but this is my first time reading this author. Tursten does not commit to the story.  Each time a small plot advance is made, paragraphs and pages are spent setting and describing scenes, writing in the style of an interior designer.  Some central characters remain only shadows of their potential. The author is a Swedish writer.  It would be reasonable to...

Share Translated by Marlaine Delargy — Detective Inspector Embla Nyström returns in the third instalment of Helene Tursten’s series based on the detective. 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. Lollo disappeared 15 years earlier, allegedly kidnapped by the Stavic brothers, gangsters operating in Gothenburg. Her disappearance remains a cold case for the police. When Embla’s phone rings late one night and the caller utters the name Åsa, Embla’s birth name, h...