Death Spiral
Written by Leena Lehtolainen
Narrated by Amy Rubinate
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
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.
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.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This is the fifth book in the series of mysteries about Finnish detective Maria Kallio, and I didn't enjoy it as much as I did the others in the series. The good points of the series remain in place: the central character is appealing, and the subsidiary characters are well developed. The Finnish background is interesting, with some notable differences from the US - people ride around on bikes a lot, heavy drinking is clearly more acceptable, and they have a serious and generous parental leave policy! But -- First off, I spotted the guilty party about half way through, which is sooner than usual and sooner than I like. Secondly, Maria, who is supposed to be a competent police officer, puts herself and her unborn child into a very dangerous position for no good reason. Fortunately, I've already read Number Six, which brings the series back to its usual standard.