Preview Darling
Twenty-six-year-old Laura Vatanen is found dead in her apartment in North Helsinki. Detective Lieutenant Kari Takamӓki’s team seems certain that the perpetrator is the man they arrested from her inner circle. But the case becomes complicated as Defense Attorney Nea Lind, spurred by her own motives, sets out to prove the police wrong. Meanwhile, Sanna Römpötti, an investigative journalist, starts her own probe that uncovers new twists. Will Takamӓki’s team end up violating their own motto, “Never Assume?”
Darling is the fifth book in Jarkko Sipila’s popular Helsinki Homicide series to be translated into English. The novel continues the rugged realism of his previous works: Against the Wall, Vengeance, Nothing but the Truth, and Cold Trail.
Jarkko Sipila, a journalist and author, has reported on crime in Finland for more than 20 years and penned 19 novels. Through realistic characters and story lines, Sipila explores current issues surrounding life in contemporary Finland. Sipila earned Finland’s Best Crime Novel Award in 2009 for Against the Wall.
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