"My heroine, Hella Mauzer, is Finland’s first ever woman police inspector. She is smart, she is competent, but she is also very stubborn, at a time when women are expected to shut up and be beautiful. Because she has a bad habit of contradicting her supervisors, Hella gets reassigned to a tiny police station in Lapland. And when a seemingly small and random crime turns out to be something much bigger, Hella is the only person brave enough - or mad enough- to look beyond the obvious."
Gianrico Carofiglio will be at Waterstones in Bath on September 19th and at the Italian Cultural Institute in London on September 20. All free events but sign up now. It's not too late.
The German writer Hans Werner Kettenbach passed away on 5 January 2018 at the age of 89 in Cologne. With Hans Werner Kettenbach, we have lost »a masterful storyteller and one of Germany’s few world-class crime writers.« (Ulrich Baron/Rheinischer Merkur, Bonn).