Snow Angels, James Thompson
Snow Angels, James Thompson
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Snow Angels

Author: James Thompson

Narrator: T. Ryder Smith

Unabridged: 8 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 12/17/2010


Synopsis

The first book of James Thompson's Inspector Vaara series won immediate critical acclaim for a sterling tale set in the brutal cold and soul-testing isolation of kaamos, Finland's two weeks of utter darkness. Even as the unrelenting winter conditions tighten their grip on the residents of the Lapland town, a lovely Somali movie star is found murdered, a racial slur cut into her chest. "Masterful."-Michael Connelly

Reviews

Goodreads review by Charles on September 18, 2021

Brilliant debut crime novel Snow angel. It sounds so innocent and even playful but this snow angel is the result of a brutal, horrific sexual assault and murder. The victim is a well known black actress. One of the few blacks living in Finland at the time. Inspector Vaara hopes against hope that the......more

Goodreads review by Ed on April 09, 2011

James M. Thompson, an American author, is married to a Finnish lady, and they live in Finland, and so quite fittingly, he sets his gritty police procedural there. My wife is of Finnish extraction (in fact, a minor character in the novel shares her surname). Therefore I wanted to read Snow Angels. I'......more