Inspector Vaara novels
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1) Snow angels
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English
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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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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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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 3
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
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.
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Inspector Vaara novels volume 4
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
Description
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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Helsinki dead , Inspector Vaara novels volume 5
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