Helsinki White: 3 (An Inspector Vaara Novel) - Tapa blanda

"Thompson's style is on the dark end of the 'Nordic Noir' spectrum. The genre -- with its stark and often violent police procedurals -- has proved wildly successful...The marquee names have come from Sweden -- think Stieg Larsson's Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, or Henning Mankell's Wallander series -- but Norway's Jo Nesbo and Iceland's Arnaldur Indridason and Yrsa Sigurdardottir have also made their mark with international readers. Thompson stands out from that crowd by writing in English and telling Vaara's gritty narrative in the first person. "--The New York Times

"A must-read for fans of Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell."--Booklist

"The laconic voice of Inspector Kari Vaara is at the same time dangerous and human, his world cold, barren, yet intriguingly exotic."--Peter Høeg, New York Times bestselling author of Smilla's Sense of Snow

But Kari's team is too good, and their actions have unintended consequences...The president of Finland wants the team on a new case: the vicious assassination of a prominent immigrants' rights activist. Against a backdrop of simmering hatred spreading across the country, Kari must solve a case that involves the kidnapping of a billionaire’s children, a Faustian bargain with a former French Legionnaire—and his own wife.