A fierce detective risks everything to unravel a tangle of secrets and
corruption protecting a killer in this spellbinding seventh mystery in
the tension-filled Maria Kallio series.
When Petri Ilveskivi is murdered in the street on his way to a
city-planning meeting, Maria Kallio, commander of Espoo's Violent Crime
Unit, and her team are first on the scene. Almost immediately, her focus
is on the band of skinheads who brutally attacked the Finnish
commissioner and his husband three years earlier. Did they finally
finish the hate crime they started? But the trail soon reveals a web of
lies--secrets Petri was keeping from even those closest to him--and a
long list of suspects.
As she juggles her obligations as a wife, mother, and detective, Maria
suggests to her superiors that what first appears to be a random assault
may actually be something more sinister. When she's met with silence and
higher-ups take her off the case, she disobeys orders and investigates
on her own, putting both her family and herself at risk. In this
captivating tale in the Maria Kallio series, someone is protecting a
killer. Can Maria track them down before the next victim falls?
