After months of maternity leave, tough-talking Espoo police detective
Maria Kallio is ready to return to work. But before assuming her new
post as head of the Violent Crime Unit, she vacations with her husband
and daughter on the island of Rödskär. There Kallio learns that, one
year earlier, her ex-boyfriend Harri had mysteriously fallen to his
death from the isle's steep and treacherous cliffs.
On the anniversary of that event, Harri's boss, the CEO of an allegedly
nontoxic paint company, loses his life on those very same rocks. In
light of such a coincidence, Kallio searches for the link between these
two tragedies and is soon convinced that they weren't accidents--they
were murders. As the Finnish nights grow longer, so too does the list of
suspects. Was the CEO's disillusioned wife involved? His
environmental-activist son? Or perhaps his rebellious daughter? Or might
the culprit be his half brother, an adventurous sailor whom Kallio finds
altogether a little too intriguing?
From internationally bestselling Finnish author Leena Lehtolainen comes
the sixth book of the gripping Maria Kallio Mystery series.