A group of hate crimes, a conspiracy, or a coincidence? Investigator
Maria Kallio searches for answers close to home in award-winning author
Leena Lehtolainen's riveting thriller.
After completing a dangerous mission training police officers in
war-torn Afghanistan, Detective Maria Kallio returns to Finland as the
head of a new special crimes unit. But what awaits her in her home
country is her most challenging and unsettling case yet. Three immigrant
Muslim girls, all members of the same social club, have gone missing
under mysterious circumstances. When the body of a fourth girl is found
in the snow, strangled with her own headscarf, the investigation takes
on a grim new urgency.
Is there a xenophobic serial killer on the loose? A random white
nationalist? Or does something more insidious bind the girls? In a
Finnish city struggling to assimilate a new population of Muslim
immigrants, the answers are hard to come by...
One thing is certain: it will take a detective familiar with the darkest
depths of humanity to sift through the wreckage of clashing cultures in
search of the truth. That detective is Maria Kallio.