Fatal Headwind, Leena Lehtolainen
Fatal Headwind, Leena Lehtolainen
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Fatal Headwind

Author: Leena Lehtolainen, Owen F. Witesman

Narrator: Amy Rubinate

Unabridged: 9 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 07/12/2016

Synopsis

After months of maternity leave, tough-talking Espoo police detective Maria Kallio is ready to return to work. But before assuming her new post as head of the Violent Crime Unit, she vacations with her husband and daughter on the island of Rödskär. There Kallio learns that, one year earlier, her ex-boyfriend Harri had mysteriously fallen to his death from the isle’s steep and treacherous cliffs.On the anniversary of that event, Harri’s boss, the CEO of an allegedly nontoxic paint company, loses his life on those very same rocks. In light of such a coincidence, Kallio searches for the link between these two tragedies and is soon convinced that they weren’t accidents—they were murders. As the Finnish nights grow longer, so too does the list of suspects. Was the CEO’s disillusioned wife involved? His environmental-activist son? Or perhaps his rebellious daughter? Or might the culprit be his half brother, an adventurous sailor whom Kallio finds altogether a little too intriguing?From internationally bestselling Finnish author Leena Lehtolainen comes the sixth book of the gripping Maria Kallio Mystery series.

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. Fatal Headwind is the sixth installment in the bestselling Maria Kallio Series, which debuted in English in 2012 with My First Murder and continued with Her Enemy, Copper Heart, Snow Woman, and Death Spiral. She is also the author of the romantic suspense Bodyguard Trilogy. Lehtolainen lives in Finland with her husband and two sons.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ken on May 14, 2016

This was a good book for following Maria Kallio in her job as Commander Espoo Violent Crime Unit. It weaved in and out of a crime of her old boyfriend Harri Immonen's death and a year later Juha Merivaara's death. It also followed her life as a wife and mother of Lida and Antti Sarkese. It was a in......more

Goodreads review by Hannelore on May 14, 2016

Fatal Headwind, Leena Lehtolainen's 6th Maria Kallio book, was the first I read, but it won't be the last. Maria, after her maternity leave, goes on a last trip to the island of Rodskar with her husband and baby. Her ex-boyfriend Harri died from a fall off the rocks a year ago. When another man fall......more

Goodreads review by CL on July 04, 2016

Detective Maria Kallio is ready to return to after her maternity leave only to learn while on vacation on the island of Rodskar with her family only to learn an old boyfriend, Harri, had fallen to his death the previous year. When Harri’s boss falls to his death one year later the coincidences are t......more

Goodreads review by Nightwitch on November 21, 2020

I’ve been zooming through this series but I think it’s time to take a break - Maria’s kind of exhausting at this point. She’s an interesting character but she’s not always likable, and the books are told in the first person so as her life gets more “adult” and her problems more complex, it gets a li......more

Goodreads review by Kate on February 17, 2025

An enjoyable instalment in the Maria Kallio series. This one deals with the murder of a corporate bigwig and takes on the issue of radical environmentalism. There are also developments in Maria’s character arc and a healthy dose of police politics. I will continue this series at some point.......more

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