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DARLING
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264 Pages, paperback
ISBN: 978-1-937241-08-7
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Twenty-six-year-old Laura Vatanen is found dead in her apartment in North Helsinki. Detective Lieutenant Kari Takamaki’s team seems certain that the perpetrator is the man they arrested from her inner circle. But the case becomes complicated as Defense Attorney Nea Lind, spurred by her own motives, sets out to prove the police wrong. Meanwhile, Sanna Rompotti, an investigative journalist, starts her own probe that uncovers new twists. Will Takamaki’s team end up violating their own motto, “Never Assume”?
Excerpt from the novel:
He lay in the dimly lit prison cell. The only light was the red hue of the street lamp streaming in through the bars in the window. He couldn't sleep, but the problem wasn't the bed. He was used to sleeping on prison bunks by now, and the mattress wasn't bad. The problem was his cell mate in the top bunk.
They had brought the guy in two days ago, and it was obvious from his eyes that he'd been medicated. "Hell," he said to the guards. "Take him to the hospital. He shouldn't be here in that condition."
The guy coughed and wheezed for a minute before his breathing slowed down.
Last night the guard asked him if the upper-bunk guy had taken his medication. What the hell did they think he was, a damn nurse? If the guard was so worried about it, he should watch the guy himself. Or take him to the hospital. The guard snorted and disappeared.
Unlike his cell mate who lay in bed all day, he'd at least kept himself busy in the license plate shop.
He heard mumbling from the top bunk but couldn't make it out.
He wasn't scared of the guy; he could take care of himself, no problem. Sometimes, though, hallucinating junkies could get violent if they thought you were someone else.
They'd exchanged few words earlier in the day and it seemed like the guy was at least aware that he was in prison.
"I killed her."
The direct statement startled him.
"I killed her, goddammit."
Was the guy talking in his sleep or was he awake?
"Strangled her. Fuck, I strangled her."
He wondered if he should say something to the guards, but for now decided against it.
Darling is the fifth book in Jarkko Sipila’s popular Helsinki Homicide series to be translated into English. The novel continues the rugged realism of his previous works: Against the Wall, Vengeance, Nothing but the Truth, and Cold Trail.
“The best one in the Helsinki Homicide series. It impresses with a skillful plot arising from gritty everyday life.”
- Kansan Uutiset
“This must be what ordinary crime is like.”
- Savon Sanomat
Excerpt from the novel:
He lay in the dimly lit prison cell. The only light was the red hue of the street lamp streaming in through the bars in the window. He couldn't sleep, but the problem wasn't the bed. He was used to sleeping on prison bunks by now, and the mattress wasn't bad. The problem was his cell mate in the top bunk.
They had brought the guy in two days ago, and it was obvious from his eyes that he'd been medicated. "Hell," he said to the guards. "Take him to the hospital. He shouldn't be here in that condition."
The guy coughed and wheezed for a minute before his breathing slowed down.
Last night the guard asked him if the upper-bunk guy had taken his medication. What the hell did they think he was, a damn nurse? If the guard was so worried about it, he should watch the guy himself. Or take him to the hospital. The guard snorted and disappeared.
Unlike his cell mate who lay in bed all day, he'd at least kept himself busy in the license plate shop.
He heard mumbling from the top bunk but couldn't make it out.
He wasn't scared of the guy; he could take care of himself, no problem. Sometimes, though, hallucinating junkies could get violent if they thought you were someone else.
They'd exchanged few words earlier in the day and it seemed like the guy was at least aware that he was in prison.
"I killed her."
The direct statement startled him.
"I killed her, goddammit."
Was the guy talking in his sleep or was he awake?
"Strangled her. Fuck, I strangled her."
He wondered if he should say something to the guards, but for now decided against it.
Darling is the fifth book in Jarkko Sipila’s popular Helsinki Homicide series to be translated into English. The novel continues the rugged realism of his previous works: Against the Wall, Vengeance, Nothing but the Truth, and Cold Trail.
“The best one in the Helsinki Homicide series. It impresses with a skillful plot arising from gritty everyday life.”
- Kansan Uutiset
“This must be what ordinary crime is like.”
- Savon Sanomat