If you’re a fan of Jo Nesbo’s The Snowman, you’ll love this gripping scandi thriller.‘We don’t talk about hatred, we hate in silence. It’s our way. We do everything in silence.’One hundred miles inside the Arctic Circle, Sufia Elmi, a beautiful and enchanting Somali movie star, is found dead – her body stripped naked and mutilated.Detective Kari Vaara is determined to get right to the heart of the hate crime. As the media reaches fever pitch, suspects emerge. Among them a past figure Vaara would...
His previous case left Kari Vaara with a scarred face, chronic insomnia and a full body count's worth of ghosts. A year later, in Helsinki, and Kari is working the graveyard shift in the homicide unit.Kari is drawn into the murder-by-torture case of Isa Filippov, the philandering wife of a Russian businessman. Her lover is clearly being framed and while Ivan Filippov's arrogance is highly suspicious, he's got friends in high places. Kari is sucked ever deeper and soon the past and present...