Hella Mauzer, former Helsinki policewoman, now a PI, is doing a background check of a Finnish secret services member. She accepted the job because she was promised information about the 1940 death of her father. An accident, file closed they say. But not for Hella. Her investigation leads to people who want her stopped dead in her tracks.
Helsinki, March 1953. Feisty Homicide cop Hella Mauzer has returned from her exile in Lapland. Fired by the police, now a reluctant PI, she investigates the death of Nellie, a high-end prostitute found floating in Helsinki Harbor. The second in the Hella Mauzer series, to follow on from the success of Evil Things.
Lapland Finland, 1952, at the height of the Cold War. A misunderstood, flawed, whip-smart Finnish woman police detective investigates a murder on the Finno- Russian border. But that is but the beginning of her involvement. In fact, the locals have been the victims of a crime so evil it is beyond anything any of them could have ever imagined.