Inspector Vaara novels
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1) Snow angels
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A Booklist Best Crime Novel Debut
“Don’t miss this one.”—USA Today
"A masterful job." -Michael Connelly
It is called kaamos—two weeks of unrelenting darkness and soul-numbing cold that falls upon Finnish Lapland, a hundred miles into the Arctic Circle, just before Christmas. Some get through it with the help of cheap Russian alcohol; some sink into depression.
This year, it may have driven...
“Don’t miss this one.”—USA Today
"A masterful job." -Michael Connelly
It is called kaamos—two weeks of unrelenting darkness and soul-numbing cold that falls upon Finnish Lapland, a hundred miles into the Arctic Circle, just before Christmas. Some get through it with the help of cheap Russian alcohol; some sink into depression.
This year, it may have driven...
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Inspector Vaara novels volume 3
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
326 p. 24 cm.
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Two days after their daughter is born, Kari Vaara drops a bombshell on his American wife, Kate: He has a brain tumor . . . and he's been handpicked to run a rogue black-ops unit, using crime to fight crime. After recovering from surgery, he gets to work. The black-ops unit is small, and reports directly to Finland's national chief of police. They have secrecy, autonomy, and the cash to buy all the high-tech gear. Soon the unit is cleaning house, robbing...
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Helsinki dead , Inspector Vaara novels volume 5
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