This series follows a police detective in the Finnish city of Turku as he navigates the complexities of his job while grappling with personal loss. Each investigation delves into dark secrets and intricate cases, with his own grief often coloring his perception of justice. Readers will find themselves drawn into atmospheric Nordic noir, compelling crime plots, and a profound exploration of a man confronting his demons.
L'inspecteur Kimmo Joentaa vient de perdre sa femme, Sanna, atteinte de la maladie de Hodgkin. Il sombre dans un chagrin mutique. Heureusement, son supérieur le charge d'une affaire de meurtre : une jeune femme retrouvée étouffée pendant son sommeil dans sa villa, sans effraction ni viol. Cette victime rappelle à Kimmo la mort de Sanna et redouble ses obsessions.
When a young woman dies peacefully in her sleep, her husband sits distraught at her side. Returning to his job at the Finland CID he finds that a murder inquiry is just beginning. A woman has been smothered while she slept and, as the case unfolds, others will be found having met death in the same eerily tranquil way.
One ordinary summer's day a young girl disappears while cycling to volleyball practice. Her abandoned bike is found in exactly the same place that another girl was assaulted and murdered thirty-three years previously. The perpetrator was never brought to justice so the authorities suspect the same killer has struck again. The eeriness of the crime unsettles not only the police and public, but also someone who has been carrying a burden of guilt for many years... Detective Kimmo Joentaa calls upon the help of his older colleague Ketola, who worked on the original murder, in the hope that they can solve both cases. While they are following up leads, the ripples from the impact of the new disappearance spread and Kimmo discovers that the truth is not always what you expect.
A young girl disappears while cycling to volleyball practice. Her bike is found in exactly the same place that another girl was murdered, thirty-three years before. Detective Kimmo Joentaa calls upon the help of his older colleague Jetola, who worked on the original murder, in the hope that they can solve both cases.
A young prostitute turns up on Detective Kimmo Joentaa's doorstep at Christmas. Not long afterwards one of Kimmo's colleagues, a forensic pathologist, is found murdered and Finland's most famous talk-show host is brutally attacked.
Finnish detective Kimmo Joentaa is called in when an unidentified woman in a coma is murdered, the killer's tears staining her sheets, in a haunting, beautifully written thriller for fans of Menkell and Chandler Finnish detective Kimmo Joentaa is called to the local hospital in which his young wife died several years before. An unidentified woman in a coma has been murdered by someone who wept over the body, their tears staining the sheets around her. The death marks the start of a series of killings, with the unknown patient at their center. As autumn turns to winter, and Christmas fast approaches, Kimmo’s attempts to unravel the case and identify the first victim are complicated by the disappearance of his sometime girlfriend, who has vanished after a party thrown by the head of the police force, and by a colleague’s spiral into the depths of a gambling addiction.
Début mai, dans la ville finlandaise de Turku, tombe la dernière neige. D'abord appelé pour un accident de la circulation avec délit de fuite où une petite fille a perdu la vie, le commissaire Kimmo Joentaa doit faire face à un double meurtre : deux inconnus sont retrouvés allongés près d'un banc comme s'ils dormaient. Les enquêtes croisées conduisent Kimmo Joentaa sur la piste d'individus que tout semble éloigner : un architecte qui croit à la symétrie de la vie, un étudiant qui pète les plombs, une jeune Roumaine qui essaie d'échapper à la misère et un banquier d'investissement qui mène une double vie. Quand Joentaa entrevoit ce qui les relie tous, il est déjà trop tard. C'est seulement alors qu'il comprend que sa tâche véritable est tout autre que la recherche d'un meurtrier. Ce nouveau roman est une élégie tendue et intense sur la mort. Et une tendre fête de la vie.
Die Macht des Todes – die Kraft des Lebens. Jan Costin Wagner ist der Meister des literarischen Kriminalromans – ein Buch von hypnotischer Intensität, das zugleich verstört und glücklich macht Auf dem Marktplatz der finnischen Stadt Turku steigt ein junger Mann in einen Brunnen. Er ist nackt und offenbar verwirrt. Und er hat ein Messer bei sich. Im Nachhinein kann sich niemand so recht erklären, warum einer der herbeigeeilten Polizisten ihn erschossen hat – vor allem nicht der Schütze selbst. Er versucht, mehr über den jungen Menschen zu erfahren, dem er das Leben genommen hat, und wendet sich hilfesuchend an seinen Kollegen Kimmo Joentaa. Kimmo, inzwischen selbst alleinerziehender Vater einer Tochter, sucht die Eltern des Toten auf – und stößt auf Spuren einer Katastrophe, die nicht nur das Leben des Jungen aus dem Brunnen, sondern das zweier Familien tragisch und tiefgreifend verändert hat. Kimmo Joentaa beginnt, die losen Fäden zu verknüpfen. Und er begreift, dass diese Ermittlung ihn vor allem mit der Frage konfrontiert, woran Menschen sich in unserer Welt festhalten können, wenn schlimmste Befürchtungen wahr werden.