Only a week after losing his wife, a distraught Detective Kimmo Joentaa returns to work to join a murder inquiry. It is the case of a woman smothered in her sleep—a curiously tranquil death, it seems, and one with no motive—and Kimmo becomes obsessed.
Finnish detective Kimmo Joentaa is called to the local hospital in which his young wife died several years before. An unidentified woman in a coma has been murdered by someone who wept over the body, their tears staining the sheets around her. The death m
One ordinary summer's day a young girl disappears while cycling to volleyball practice. Her abandoned bike is found in exactly the same place that another girl was assaulted and murdered thirty-three years previously. The perpetrator was never brought to
Tracing the life of "Sissi" Empress of Austria, Brigitte Hamann paints a portrait of a highly-gifted, clear-sighted and unconventional personality. The volume contains extracts from Elisabeth's diaries and includes relevant pictures from original pictoria
Setting out to find his grandfather, Listener carries with him a mysterious stone which takes him far away to do great harm. But, through the magical powers of the stone and his grandfather's flute, he also comes to find happiness and to possess a power g
In London, Jack the Ripper has claimed another victim.But this "London" is a crime-free virtual city, a historical theme park for tourists. Qualified witch Roberta Morgenstern and her young police assistant, Clément Martineau, set out to solve the murder
Who is the most foolish? The prince who turns himself into a swineherd to go courting the emperor's daughter? The princess who hates the sweet red rose because it's not artificial? Or perhaps the emperor who throws his slipper at them both when he finds t
