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Death Spiral
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 75
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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- Unabridged
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 79
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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The Nightingale Murder
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Maria Kallio suspense mystery Book 9
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Her Enemy
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 108
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 90
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Story4 out of 5 stars 89
After solving her first murder and leaving the Helsinki Police Department behind, Maria Kallio thought that a move to the neighboring city of Espoo would signal a fresh start - a chance to not only put her new law degree to use but to nurture her budding romance with Antti Sarkela. But when she discovers the strangled body of a new acquaintance, old habits die hard for the redheaded sleuth - especially since the accused is not only the victim's fiancé but a member of Antti's family. Though she works as a legal counselor, Kallio soon finds herself unofficially investigating the murder, now labeled a sex crime.
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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.
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My First Murder
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The new summer house on Sandhamn Island is an architectural dream for its owner, Carsten Jonsson. It’s a nightmare for the locals. The venture capitalist has flouted local traditions, property lines, and the natural beauty of the coastline. He’s also too wealthy and arrogant to heed the anonymous warnings to leave. The threats escalate when his guest lodge is burned to the ground and an unidentifiable corpse is found in the charred ruins.
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5 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars
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Please translate this series more rapidly!
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5 out of 5 stars
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best Sandhamn Murder book!
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4 out of 5 stars
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Swedish Mystery Series Continues
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On a hot July morning on Sweden's idyllic vacation island of Sandhamn, a man takes his dog for a walk and makes a gruesome discovery: a body, tangled in fishing net, has washed ashore. Police detective Thomas Andreasson is the first to arrive on the scene. Before long, he has identified the deceased as Krister Berggren, a bachelor from the mainland who has been missing for months. All signs point to an accident - until another brutalized corpse is found at the local bed-and-breakfast.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Awful narration
- By Silvia Leis on 11-15-16
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Broken Glass
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- By: Alexander Hartung, Fiona Beaton - translator
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 75
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 62
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3 out of 5 stars
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Lost in translation
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Dark Pattern
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5 out of 5 stars
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Publisher's Summary
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.
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- Wayne
- Matthews, NC
- 05-02-16
Great murder mystery!
A 16 year old wold class figure skater is brutally murdered near her home in Finland. Her body is placed in the trunk of a car in a parking deck. Sargent Maria Callio, 4 weeks before the start of her maternity leave, is assigned the case. The murder case is set in the figure skating world in Finland. The potential murders are many.
Death Spiral is a well written and narrated murder mystery.
5 of 7 people found this review helpful
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
- Shirley
- 03-01-19
Good listen! Good narrator!
I liked listening to the book but I just say I got tired of hearing about "the creature" . Th e names still confuse me. I will listen to these books but not read them, they drag along too much for me. The plot is sad but interesting. I will continue to listen to this series but may decide to bail out if it gets to be all about the new b a by !
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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Performance4 out of 5 stars
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Story4 out of 5 stars
- Sherry
- Lakeland, FL, United States
- 05-06-16
Finished series in a week
very entertaining series, good characters, just hard to keep up with names from Finnish translation
0 of 1 people found this review helpful