Why a Booktrail?
2000s: The second outing for Inspector Inspector Kari Vaara of Helsinki and it’s a gruesome one. A woman has been attacked and murder by torture is the name of the utterly brutal game.
Lucifer’s Tears
What you need to know before your trail
Inspector Kari Vaara of Helsinki investigates a case that sees a beautiful young woman murdered in an apparent sadomasochistic attack… As the investigation gets underway, it might well lead to the very highest levels of power.
Vaara has had a difficult time of it up to now and scars still haunt him in more ways than one. Murder by torture is a difficult case for any officer but to him it’s almost impossible.
The philandering wife of a Russian businessman has been murdered by torture. And her husband Ivan Filippov, has got friends in high places.
Vaara is trapped in between these highs and lows and the past and the present…
Travel Guide
Cold, icy unforgiving Finland
War crimes, sexual jealousy and corruption in high places….
“My home, Finland, The ninth and innermost circle of hell. A frozen lake of blood and guilt formed from Lucifer’s tears, turned to ice by the flapping of its leathery wings”
This novel gives a graphic and unforgiving impression of Finland and the darkest depths of its already gritty underbelly explored in book one. Murder by torture of the wife of a Russian businessman, and an examination of a country looking deep into its soul and past.
A national hero is being tried at the age of 90 for crimes committed during WW2. Whilst the government want to protect the Finnish image and one of its own, but Germany wants answers. A country fighting with its own heroic perception of itself is a country in turmoil.
The setting from rural Finland in the first book to the big bad city of Helsinki ramps up the tension and we advise you to read book one first as it does help!
You may need a glass of Koskenkorva Viina yourself when you’ve finished 😉
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