Aarni Susi #1
Verijälki
Aarni Susi is one step away from evil. What if he already crossed it?
Aarni Susi comes to at an airport abroad.
There is fresh blood under his fingernails.
He does not know whose.
What returns to him comes in fragments: a disfigured body in shallow water, archival material describing old brutality, a graveyard at night, blood, darkness.
Susi is a violent-crime investigator used to reconstructing other people's actions from the traces they leave behind. This time the traces may point inward.
Set against a winter-dark Helsinki, Verijälki begins the Aarni Susi series: hard-boiled crime fiction in which the investigator's own cognition is not a safe place to stand.
“The spirit of hard-boiled crime arrives in 2020s Helsinki.” — Helsingin Sanomat (translated from Finnish)
Literal English gloss of the Finnish title: “Blood Trace.” This is not an announced English-edition title.
Originally published in Finnish by WSOY in 2022. View at publisher.
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