Where Have All the Young Girls Gone

by Leena Lehtolainen, Owen F. Witesman (Translator)

Overview

A group of hate crimes, a conspiracy, or a coincidence? Investigator Maria Kallio searches for answers close to home in award-winning author Leena Lehtolainen’s riveting thriller.

After completing a dangerous mission training police officers in war-torn Afghanistan, Detective Maria Kallio returns to Finland as the head of a new special crimes unit. But what awaits her in her home country is her most challenging and unsettling case yet. Three immigrant Muslim girls, all members of the same social club, have gone missing under mysterious circumstances. When the body of a fourth girl is found in the snow, strangled with her own headscarf, the investigation takes on a grim new urgency.

Is there a xenophobic serial killer on the loose? A random white nationalist? Or does something more insidious bind the girls? In a Finnish city struggling to assimilate a new population of Muslim immigrants, the answers are hard to come by…

One thing is certain: it will take a detective familiar with the darkest depths of humanity to sift through the wreckage of clashing cultures in search of the truth. That detective is Maria Kallio.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781542040310
Publisher:	Amazon Publishing
Publication date:	01/08/2019
Series:	Maria Kallio , #11
Edition description:	Translatio
Pages:	316
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.10(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Leena Lehtolainen was born in Vesanto, Finland, to parents who taught language and literature. At the age of ten, she began her first book—a young adult novel—and published it two years later, followed by a second book at the age of seventeen. The author of the long-running bestselling Maria Kallio Mystery series, which includes—most recently—Derailed and The Nightingale Murder, Leena has received numerous awards. Among them are the 1997 Vuoden Johtolanka (Clue) Award for the best Finnish crime novel and the 2000 Great Finnish Book Club prize. Her work has been published in twenty-nine languages. Besides writing, Leena enjoys classical singing, her beloved cats, and—her greatest passion—figure skating. Her nonfiction book about the sport, The Enchantment of Figure Skating, was chosen as the Sport Book of the Year 2011 in Finland, where Leena lives with her husband and two sons.

Editorial Reviews

Narrator Amy Rubinate is the voice of hard-nosed military veteran and detective Maria Kallio. Maria survives fighting in Afghanistan only to be confronted by a serial killer of teenage Muslim girls when she returns to Finland. Rubinate is a solid choice for this no-nonsense character, who is well established in Nordic crime fiction. She manages the wide cast, including Maria, her children, and various policemen. Her narration is believable throughout the twists and turns of this dark thriller. Will Maria find who is targeting immigrants in head scarves? And can she do so without harming her family or entering into the growing controversy around Finland's burgeoning immigrant population? Rubinate keeps us hanging on every word. M.R. © AudioFile 2018, Portland, Maine

NOVEMBER 2018 - AudioFile