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1) Snow angels
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During the darkest time of the year in Lapland, Finland, a beautiful Somali immigrant is found dead and mutilated in a snowfield, and as Inspector Kari Vaara looks into the killing, he tries to keep the case out of the headlines; the investigation puts a strain on his marriage to his young American wife as he tracks down the prime suspect, who may be the wealthy man his ex-wife left him for years earlier.
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Sisterchicks novels volume 1
Pub. Date
c2003
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Best friends Penny and Sharon, connected as young moms twenty years ago, take a "post-kids" trip to Findland to seek out Penny's only living relatives.
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Cass Neary novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2012.
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Fleeing for her life after she is shown photographs of ritual killings during a mysterious job in Helsinki, Cass Neary encounters a former lover and exiled musician in Iceland only to be inundated by a series of unsolved murders.
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Pub. Date
2012
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During the period known as the Days of Awe that lead up to Yom Kippur, Ariel Kafka, inspector in the Violent Crime Unit of the Helsinki police and one of two Jewish policemen in Finland, is confronted with the most difficult case of his career. Two Arabs are killed near the capital and shortly after Kafka discovers two more bodies at an Iraqi-owned garage. Are these deaths evidence of gang warfare or international terrorism? When it transpires that...
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[2011]
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The Sufia Elmi case left inspector Kari Vaara with a scarred face, chronic insomnia, a constant migraine, and a full body count's worth of ghosts. Now it's a year later, in Helsinki. Kari and his beautiful American wife, Kate, have relocated here at her urging but it's a city where Kari has only bad memories. He is working the graveyard shift in the homicide unit, with a team that resents him as an overpaid Lapland hick, and a brilliant but egomaniacal...
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Inspector Vaara novels volume 4
Pub. Date
[2013]
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Entreated by a desperate mother whose daughter, a young woman with Down syndrome, has gone missing while seeking employment in Finland, Kari Vaara pursues leads through Helsinki's high-class clubs to the darkest circles in underground trafficking.
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Inspector Vaara novels volume 3
Pub. Date
[2012]
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After recovering from surgery for a brain tumor, Kari Vaara assumes leadership of a rogue black-ops unit while investigating the assassination of an immigrants' rights advocate at the height of xenophobic uprisings in Finland.
9) Ice islands
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Rake Ozenna volume 4
Pub. Date
2022.
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"Major Rake Ozenna's mission is simple: gain access to the Kato family - Japan's most dangerous crime empire - and stop the threat to America. But when the secret son of the Russian leader is executed and Rake's target, Sara Kato, is implicated in the murder, a political crisis between Russia, Japan and the US is set in motion. It's a race to protect Sara and earn her trust whilst escaping the inhospitable terrain of the icy Aland Islands. Meanwhile,...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Given the ultimate chance to prove herself when a Russian defector walks into her post, brilliant young CIA officer Amanda Cole teams up with a fearless—and legendary—spy to unravel an international conspiracy—one shockingly linked to her father, a spy during the Cold War.
12) Wilderness
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2007
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As Irish teenager Gráinne anxiously prepares for a reunion with her mother, who abandoned the family years before, Gráinne's half-brothers and their mother take a dogsledding vacation in Finland.
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Lavender Ladies Detective Agency volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
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"Change is afoot at Sunset Grove retirement home, and its residents aren't impressed. Under threat from falling masonry, best friends Irma and Siiri are forced out of their home to negotiate twenty-first-century living in the centre of Helsinki. Their new surroundings throw up an endless number of daily challenges, from caring for the ailing Anna-Lisa to the mystery of which of the many remotes controls the TV. The pair are joined by growing numbers...
14) The witch hunter
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Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"A shocking murder in an affluent Helsinki suburb has ties to the occult in this thrilling US debut from Finnish author Max Seeck. A bestselling author's wife has been found dead in a gorgeous black evening gown, sitting at the head of a formally set dinner table. Her most chilling feature - her face is frozen in a ghastly smile. At first it seems as though a deranged psychopath is reenacting the gruesome murders from the victim's husband's bestseller,...
15) The Finnish line
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S.A.S.S. : Students Across the Seven Seas volume 10
S.A.S.S. Students Across the Seven Seas volume 10
S.A.S.S. Students Across the Seven Seas volume 10
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Ski jumper Mo Clark goes to Finland with the Scholar Athlete Exchange Program, trying to get away from her famous and accomplished family and seeking equality in her male-dominated sport.