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The Sufia Elmi case left Inspector Kari Vaara with a scarred face, insomnia, migraines, and a full body count's worth of ghosts. A year later, he and his wife have relocated to Helsinki at her urging - but it's a city where Kari has only bad memories. Working the graveyard shift with a team that resents him and a brilliant rookie partner who has a few screws loose, Kari is ordered to investigate a ninety-year-old national hero for alleged war crimes...
2) Snow angels
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Kaamos: Just before Christmas, the bleakest time of the year in Lapland. The unrelenting darkness and extreme cold above the Arctic Circle drive everyone just a little insane . . . perhaps enough to kill. A beautiful Somali immigrant is found dead in a snowfield, her body gruesomely mutilated, a racial slur carved into her chest. Heading the murder investigation is Inspector Kari Vaara, the lead detective of the small-town police force. The vicious...
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Inspector Vaara novel volume 3
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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 they have secrecy, autonomy, and cash. Soon the unit is robbing Helsinki's mobsters blind. But Kari's team is too good, and their actions have unintended consequences...
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Inspector Vaara novel volume 4
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Kari Vaara is recovering from the physical and emotional toll of solving the Lisbet Söderlund case when he's approached by an Estonian woman who begs him to find her daughter, a young woman with Down syndrome who was promised work and a better life in Finland ... and has since disappeared. It's one more missing girl for an overburdened police department. But for Kari, the case is personal: it's a chance for redemption, to help the victims his failed...