Death Spiral, Leena Lehtolainen
Death Spiral, Leena Lehtolainen
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Death Spiral

Author: Leena Lehtolainen, Owen F. Witesman

Narrator: Amy Rubinate

Unabridged: 8 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 02/23/2016

Synopsis

Noora Nieminen was destined to become a world champion. But when the sixteen-year-old skating sensation is found slain with her own skates, her promising career is unexpectedly cut short.Detective Maria Kallio is seven months pregnant, but that isn’t going to stop her from putting everything she has into solving the murder. With a promotion on the line and her arrogant adversary, Pertti Ström, vying for the new job, Maria is determined to make an arrest. Could it be the deviant criminal who’s lately been terrorizing the city? Is it the former lover of Noora’s mother, who has been stalking the family since she rejected him? Or might the killer be someone even closer than that? With so much riding on Noora’s success—and so many people with motives to murder—the detective must sift through the long list of suspects before the case turns ice cold.Death Spiral, the fifth book in Lehtolainen’s international bestselling Nordic crime series, is a chilling tale of hot tempers, high stakes, and the untimely death of a rising star.

About Leena Lehtolainen

Leena Lehtolainen was born in Vesanto, Finland, to parents who taught language and literature. At the age of ten, she wrote her first book, a young adult novel, which was published two years later. Lehtolainen has a passion for figure skating, attending many competitions as a skating journalist and writing for a Finnish figure-skating magazine, Taitoluistelu. Death Spiral is the fifth installment in the bestselling Maria Kallio Series, which debuted in English in 2012 with My First Murder and continued with Her Enemy, Copper Heart, and Snow Woman. She is also the author of the romantic suspense Bodyguard Trilogy. Leena lives in Finland with her husband and two sons.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ken

Leena kept you in suspense throughout the entire book. Maria Kallio was pregnant through the entire book and had her babe at the end. With several scares in between the action to keep it following. I would recommend this book to everyone who has eyes and empathy.......more

Goodreads review by Judy

I enjoy this series more as it goes along. In this one Maria is pregnant, but still solving crimes and competing with other investigators with an eye on promotion. The murder is of a young figure skater and although there are lots of suspects, finding the correct one is a challenge, as always. Some......more

Goodreads review by Outi

I love Maria Kallio -series. Leena Lehtolainen gives a very credible picture of Finnish police work, description of Finnish society and a life of a working woman with a family. She is also very good at foreseeing topics to come, fiction but so much true also.......more

Goodreads review by Minttu

Suosittelen Maria Kallio-dekkareita jokaiselle, joka ei ehkä ole aikaisemmin innostunut kys. genrestä ja kaipailisi erityisesti feminististä, epätyypillistä ja ei-tylsää dekkarisarjaa, jossa löytyy muitakin samaistumisen kohteita kuin se perinteinen keski-ikäinen, valkoihoinen pönöukko. Äänikirjat l......more

Goodreads review by Kate

It was a pleasure to get back into Leena Lehtolainen's Maria Kallio series. In this book, Sergeant Kallio and her team are called to investigate the suspicious murder of a teen Finnish figure skating star. Like other books in the series, this one provides commentary on Finnish society and roles of w......more

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