An old man has been found run over, seemingly an accident involving a young Hungarian au pair. Anna has been called in to investigate, given her common language with the suspect. Meanwhile her partner Esko is investigating an immigrant gang, who are trying to muscle in on Hell Angels drug dealing te...
This novel centers around Jaaska, a Finnish mushroom entrepreneur, who discovers that has been poisoned over some length of time and is going to die. This leads to him investigating who is responsible. Other issues come to light to complicate his life. The balance between descriptions and plot is ab...
A Finnish thriller, this deals with a police officer going to the Serbian-Hungarian border to see her family and have a holiday. There her handbag is stolen and this leads to a murder case which she cannot resist investigating This is a story of characters as well as hard-boiled detective work and...
A Finnish thriller, this deals with an investigative journalist looking into a mine in the North of Finland and its environmental impact. His marriage is crumbling and his father enters his life after an absence of thirty years. This is a story of characters and their relationships rather than hard-...
Finnish Lapland is a brutal place. It’s above the Arctic Circle. It’s remote. Until the Russian Revolution and World War II arrived, even the modern world hadn’t touched it much. In Katja Kettu’s The Midwife (translated by David Hackston), we see a level of horror visited up on the Finns and Sami wh...
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