A review by liberrydude
Kar Melekleri by James Thompson

4.0

I first met Inspector Vaara in book 3, Helsinki White, and this is the first book in the series and he's a very different man. Vaara is the cop in his home town and has just married an American who manages a plush resort in Lapland, within the Arctic Circle. It sounds like a pretty cold and depressing place-perfect for drinking and violence. A sensational hate/sex murder occurs of a visiting Somali born Finnish actress and puts Vaara in the national news. He's connected to the principal suspect in the case too. The obvious suspect is just too convenient. You know it's going to get complicated and boy does it. It gets more violent too with lots of unsuspected violent action. The ending is wild and pretty unpredictable and I can see how Vaara ended up back in Helsinki. On to book two now.