Trouble / Katja Ivar.

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Author:

Ivar, Katja, author.

ISBN:

9781913394776

Physical Description:

220 pages ; 20 cm.

Series:

Hella Mauzer series ; [3]

Hella Mauzer crime series ; 3.

Abstract:

"Hella has been asked by the police to do a background check on Johannes Heikkinen, a senior member of the Finnish secret services. Heikkinen has a complicated past: a child dead just weeks after birth and a wife who died in the fire that destroyed their house a few years later. Background checks are not exactly the type of job Hella was hoping for, but she accepts it on the condition that she is given access to the files concerning the roadside death of her father in 1942. Colonel Mauzer, his wife and other family members were killed by a truck in a hit and run incident. An accident, file closed, they say. But not for Hella, whose unwelcome investigation leads to some who would prefer to see her stopped dead in her tracks."-- Provided by publisher.

Subject Term:

Women private investigators -- Fiction.

Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

Helsinki (Finland) -- Fiction.

Finland -- Helsinki. (OCoLC)fst01210194

Genre:

Detective and mystery stories.

Detective and mystery fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726581

Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787

Historical fiction.

Detective and mystery fiction.

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Summary

Helsinki, June 1953, at the heart of the Cold War. Hella, now a reluctant private investigator, has been asked by her former boss at the Helsinki murder squad to do a background check on a member of the Finnish secret services. Not the type of job Hella was hoping for, but she accepts it on the condition that she is given access to the files concerning the roadside death of her father in 1942, at a time when Finland joined forces with Nazi Germany in its attack against the Soviet Union. German troops were sent to Finland, the Gestapo arrived in Helsinki and German influence on local government was strong, including demands for the deportation of local Jews. Colonel Mauzer, his wife and other family members were killed by a truck in a hit and run incident. An accident, file closed, they said. But not for Hella, whose unwelcome investigation leads to some who would prefer to see her stopped dead in her tracks.

Reviews (1)

Publisher's Weekly Review

Set in 1953, Ivar's stellar third mystery featuring Hella Mauzer (after 2020's Deep as Death) finds Hella working as a PI after losing her job as the first-ever woman inspector in the Helsinki Homicide Unit. She's surprised to hear from her former boss, Police Chief Jokela, who asks her to meet him at headquarters after hours when few people would be around. The reason for that timing becomes clear once Jokela specifies the sensitive help that he's seeking--a background check on Johannes Heikkinen, a member of SUPO, the Finnish secret service, a candidate to become the head of homicide. Hella agrees on the condition that she's given unfettered access to the files on the 1942 deaths of her parents, sister, and nephew, who were killed by an unidentified hit-and-run truck driver. From the prologue, readers know that Colonel Mauzer and his family were deliberately targeted and he recognized the driver just before being fatally struck. Hella pursues that cold case as well as disturbing discoveries from her look into Heikkinen's history. Ivar balances the complex plotlines perfectly. Fans of multifaceted female leads will be riveted. Agent: Marilia Savvides, Peters, Fraser & Dunlop (U.K.). (Feb.)