A Finnish town right by the Russian border. A detective with hopes of a new start. A crime with connections to the east…
Author: J. M. Ilves
Finnish original: Sorjonen – Nukkekoti
Publisher: Gummerus, 2016
Genre: Crime fiction
Number of pages: 283 pp.
Reading material: Finnish original, English sample
Rights sold: Estonia, Post Factum (Eesti Meedia); Germany, Suhrkamp; Poland, Virtualo/EmpikGo
Detective Inspector Kari Sorjonen is one of the most respected officers at the National Bureau of Investigation in Finland. But when his wife barely survives brain cancer, Sorjonen decides to move with his family to an idyllic small town near the border of Russia to lead a quiet, peaceful life.
Sorjonen joins the local police department and gets a case investigating a young girl found dead in the lake. Soon it starts to seem that someone is trafficking girls across the Russian border – and the traces might lead high to the town’s leadership…
Sorjonen soon comes to realize that the small town attitudes, political shenanigans and frontier crimes can be even harder to handle than the illegal activities in the capital.
Doll’s House is the first book of the Bordertown series. The books are written by two Finnish professional authors behind the pseudonym J. M. Ilves. The novels are based on the internationally successful television series Bordertown that has been sold to over 40 countries.
Also available:
Endgame (Bordertown #2)
Five Finger Excersise (Bordertown #3)
The Man-Beast (Bordertown #4)
About the author:
J. M. Ilves