Before I Go, Leena Lehtolainen
Before I Go, Leena Lehtolainen
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Before I Go

Author: Leena Lehtolainen, Owen F. Witesman

Narrator: Amy Rubinate

Unabridged: 10 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/25/2017

Synopsis

A fierce detective risks everything to unravel a tangle of secrets and corruption protecting a killer in this spellbinding seventh mystery in the tension-filled Maria Kallio series.When Petri Ilveskivi is murdered in the street on his way to a city-planning meeting, Maria Kallio, commander of Espoo's Violent Crime Unit, and her team are first on the scene. Almost immediately, her focus is on the band of skinheads who brutally attacked the Finnish commissioner and his husband three years earlier. Did they finally finish the hate crime they started? But the trail soon reveals a web of lies—secrets Petri was keeping from even those closest to him—and a long list of suspects.As she juggles her obligations as a wife, mother, and detective, Maria suggests to her superiors that what first appears to be a random assault may actually be something more sinister. When she's met with silence and higher-ups take her off the case, she disobeys orders and investigates on her own, putting both her family and herself at risk. In this captivating tale in the Maria Kallio series, someone is protecting a killer. Can Maria track them down before the next victim falls?

About Leena Lehtolainen

Leena Lehtolainen was born in Vesanto, Finland, to parents who taught language and literature. A keen reader, she made up stories in her head before she could even write. At the age of ten, she began her first book—a young adult novel—and published it two years later. She released her second book at the age of seventeen. She has received numerous awards for her writing, including the 1997 Vuoden Johtolanka (Clue) Award for the best Finnish crime novel and the Great Finnish Book Club prize in 2000. 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, Taitoluistelun lumo (The Enchantment of Figure Skating), was chosen as the Sport Book of the Year 2011 in Finland. Leena lives in Finland with her husband and two sons.

Reviews

Goodreads review by di on November 07, 2020

Ahhhh, finished another mystery by Leena Letholainen - like a reunion with best friends who also enjoy good writing!......more

Goodreads review by Mike on June 27, 2018

I have come across Lehtolainen’s work before and enjoyed it. This entry has all of the features of her earlier works with a faster pace. Maria Kallio is a lieutenant in the Espoo police department. (Espoo is the second-largest city in Finland and a suburb of Helsinki.) Her staff is mixed and one of......more

Goodreads review by Roxann on March 16, 2018

From the cover: When Petri Ilveskivi is murdered in the street on his way to a city-planning meeting, Maria Kallio, commander of Espoo’s Violent Crime Unit, and her team are first on the scene. Almost immediately, her focus is on the band of skinheads who brutally attacked the Finnish commissioner a......more

Goodreads review by Janne on April 15, 2020

Espoon kaupunginvaltuutettu, Petri Ilveskivi, piestään kuoliaaksi. Paikalla on moottoripyörän renkaanjäljet ja epäilylykset viittaavat skiniin, joka on aiemminkin runnellut Ilveskiveä. Homoseksuaalina poliitikkona Ilveskivi ei ole skinien keskuudessa kovassa huudossa. Asiat menevät kuitenkin paljon s......more

Goodreads review by Jean on June 03, 2017

I won a copy of this book from Goodreads. While it is the seventh book in the series, it also works well as a stand-alone. When Petri Ilveskivi is killed on his way to a City Planning Commission meeting, it falls to Maria Kallio and her Violent Crimes Unit to investigate. Petri and his lover Tommi h......more

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