Wolves and Angels (50 page)
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HARRI NYKANEN
Raid and the Blackest Sheep
(2010,
242p
.
)
Hard-nosed hit man Raid is drivin
g toward the Arctic Circle
a career criminal in the twilig
ht of his life, who is putting
his affairs in order, wreaking vengeance on those who have wronged him and
paying penance to those he has wronged.
Soon, b
oth cops and crooks are on the
ir trail
. In the end, the pilgrimage leaves a trail of wounded and dead in its wake.
Raid and the
Kid
(201
2,
280p.
)
Raid is lying
low when the son of a local shopkeeper stumbles onto his property with bloodthirsty Bolivian
drug traffickers on his heels.
Bo
dies of a Bolivian warehouse worker and a Finnish flight attendant
are found
in a Helsinki home
.
In this twisting tale of cops, criminals, and those who blur the lines,
the police s
truggle to connect the dots behind the case.
JARKKO SIPILA
Helsinki Homicide: Against the Wall
(2009,
291p
.
)
An abandoned house in Northern Helsinki, a dead body in the garage. Detective Lieutenant Kari Takamäki
gets a case that lo
oks like a professional hit, but the
crime scene
is perplexing
.
Detective
Suhonen goes undercover as Suikkanen, a gangster full of action. In pursuit of the murderer, he
must operate within the grey area of the law.
But
will the end justify the means?
Helsinki Homicide: Vengeance
(2010,
335p.
)
A
Finnish crime boss
walks out of prison with one thought on his mind:
v
engeance. Wanting to reclaim his gang's honor and avenge those who have wronged him, Larsson targets Suhonen, the undercover detective who put him in prison. Suhonen hunts for the loose thread that could unravel the entire gang
,
b
ut with every string he pulls, he flirts with death itself.
Helsinki Homicide: Nothing but the Truth
(2011,
321
p.
)
A woman sees the getaway driver in a drug murder.
After testifying
in the trial, she finds herself
as
the target. Not wishing to uproot her life, she and her daughter risk death by spurning
the police’s
offer of a safe house.
She
is torn between her principles and desire to keep her family safe. How much should an ordinary citizen sacrifice for the benefit of society as a whole?