Where Have All the Young Girls Gone, Leena Lehtolainen
Where Have All the Young Girls Gone, Leena Lehtolainen
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Where Have All the Young Girls Gone

Author: Leena Lehtolainen, Owen F. Witesman

Narrator: Amy Rubinate

Unabridged: 8 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 01/08/2019


Synopsis

A group of hate crimes, a conspiracy, or a coincidence? Investigator Maria Kallio searches for answers close to home in award-winning author Leena Lehtolainen’s riveting thriller.After completing a dangerous mission training police officers in war-torn Afghanistan, Detective Maria Kallio returns to Finland as the head of a new special crimes unit. But what awaits her in her home country is her most challenging and unsettling case yet. Three immigrant Muslim girls, all members of the same social club, have gone missing under mysterious circumstances. When the body of a fourth girl is found in the snow, strangled with her own headscarf, the investigation takes on a grim new urgency.Is there a xenophobic serial killer on the loose? A random white nationalist? Or does something more insidious bind the girls? In a Finnish city struggling to assimilate a new population of Muslim immigrants, the answers are hard to come by…One thing is certain: it will take a detective familiar with the darkest depths of humanity to sift through the wreckage of clashing cultures in search of the truth. That detective is Maria Kallio.

About Leena Lehtolainen

Leena Lehtolainen was born in Vesanto, Finland, to parents who taught language and literature. At the age of ten, she began her first book—a young adult novel—and published it two years later, followed by a second book at the age of seventeen. The author of the long-running bestselling Maria Kallio Mystery series, which includes—most recently—Derailed and The Nightingale Murder, Leena has received numerous awards. Among them are the 1997 Vuoden Johtolanka (Clue) Award for the best Finnish crime novel and the 2000 Great Finnish Book Club prize. 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, The Enchantment of Figure Skating, was chosen as the Sport Book of the Year 2011 in Finland, where Leena lives with her husband and two sons.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jenny on July 16, 2021

And now the wait is on for the next books to get translated into audiobooks.......more

Goodreads review by Christine on February 04, 2019

Maria Kallio returns home to Finland after training police officers in Afghanistan. As the commander of the new special crimes unit of the Espoo Police Department, Maria’s first case deals with three missing Muslim immigrants. The three girls attended the same youth group as Maria’s daughter. The ca......more

Goodreads review by Paula on January 08, 2023

It's dificult to rate this book,because it was written in 2010,but it was translated now,when the refugees/racism/crazy fascist groups angle has been done a million times in crime fiction,and honestly I'm rather tired of it. Even taking that into account,it didn't engage me,was slow and certain plot......more

Goodreads review by Laura on June 24, 2023

ihan ok.......more

Goodreads review by Kirsten on February 24, 2025

There were some issues with the names and assumptions about the Bosnian family in this book that made me wonder if there were errors related to the other Muslim girls' backgrounds. But overall a gripping read that keeps you wondering.......more