Die Frau im Fahrstuhl

by Helene Tursten, Holger Wolandt

Eine Frau auf der Flucht vor ihrem Mann, der sie augenscheinlich misshandelt. Bevor sie ausziehen kann, stürzt sie auf der Treppe ihres Einfamilienhauses zu Tode. Ein klarer Fall, oder? Ein junges Paar, das sich auf der Hochzeitsreise verfährt und schließlich bei einem einsam gelegenen Hof und dessen mysteriöser Besitzerin landet. Ein Witwer, vor dessen Tür plötzlich zwei Rettungssanitäter stehen, die er nicht bestellt hat. Zehn unheimliche Geschichten und eine Inspektor-Irene-Huss-Erzählung hat btb-Bestsellerautorin Helene Tursten in diesem Buch versammelt: höchst spannend und voller Raffinesse.

Genres: Short Stories, Ghost Stories, Sweden

176 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2003

About the author

Helene Tursten (born in Gothenburg in 1954) is a Swedish writer of crime fiction. The main character in her stories is Detective Inspector Irene Huss. Before becoming an author, Tursten worked as a nurse and then a dentist, but was forced to leave due to illness. During her illness she worked as a translator of medical articles.

Series:
* Irene Huss

Reviews

[Maria · Rating 1 out of 5]

1,5 ☆

[stories on paper · Rating 3 out of 5]

Rezension unter: storiesonpaper.wordpress.com

[Eule Luftschloss · Rating 4 out of 5]

trigger warning
domestic abuse

Eleven short stories, ten of them ghost stories and one tale of crime from the Irene Huss series I never heard about before. I am not quite sure why the crime story was included, because the other short episodes fit neatly together, and gave me cozy creeps, if that makes any sense.

Some of these stories are located in brooding houses in the country side, some in a bigger city, and quite a few about life in hospital and weird things nurses might see at night.

Some supernatural encounters creep the characters out, some save their lifes.
I liked this book - apart from said one story - and would like to read more.

[Holger Sch. · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nicht so gut...

[Trine · Rating 5 out of 5]

Whether or not one believes in ghosts, the stories in this anthology all make for a very spooky read.