Noora Nieminen was destined to become a world champion. But when the sixteen-year-old skating sensation is found slain with her own skates, her promising career is unexpectedly cut short.
Detective Maria Kallio is seven months pregnant, but that isnโt going to stop her from putting everything she has into solving the murder. With a promotion on the line and her arrogant adversary, Pertti Strรถm, vying for the new job, Maria is determined to make an arrest. Could it be the deviant criminal whoโs lately been terrorizing the city? Is it the former lover of Nooraโs mother, who has been stalking the family since she rejected him? Or might the killer be someone even closer than that? With so much riding on Nooraโs successโand so many people with motives to murderโthe detective must sift through the long list of suspects before the case turns ice cold.
Death Spiral , the fifth book in Lehtolainenโs international bestselling Nordic crime series, is a chilling tale of hot tempers, high stakes, and the untimely death of a rising star.
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About the Author
Leena Lehtolainen was born in Vesanto, Finland, to parents who taught language and literature. At the age of ten, she wrote her first book, a young adult novel, which was published two years later. Lehtolainen has a passion for figure skating, attending many competitions as a skating journalist and writing for a Finnish figure-skating magazine, Taitoluistelu. Death Spiral is the fifth installment in the bestselling Maria Kallio Series, which debuted in English in 2012 with My First Murder and continued with Her Enemy , Copper Heart , and Snow Woman. She is also the author of the romantic suspense Bodyguard Trilogy. Leena lives in Finland with her husband and two sons.