As the brick hurls though the large glass living room
window, hundreds of glass fragments fill the room leaving
blood filled cuts in the severely disabled man sitting in
the comfy chair. How could he clean up all this glass when
he can barely hobble around the fourth floor apartment?
Who could have done this?
The brick has been wrapped with a warning and Inspector
Kari Vaara realizes he has too many enemies to begin to
figure out who is targeting him now. Overmedicating on
painkillers and alcohol, Kari is recovering from the
bullets that had viciously smashed into his jaw and his
previously damaged knee when he and his team had concluded
their last police investigation. All had suffered varying
psychological and physical injuries. Kate, his beloved
American born wife, suffers greatly from post-traumatic
stress disorder from having to kill a man. In her distress,
she left Kari and has taken their six month old baby
daughter Anu with her. The only good thing in Vaara's mind
are the ten million Euros that have gone missing. But Kate
unexpectedly returns only to leave little Anu behind. What
is the unstable Kate planning now? How can he stop his
enemies from hurting him, his baby and his small family of
friends?
Then in the most unusual of circumstances, an Estonian
woman asks that he find her missing nineteen year old
daughter who is a trusting girl with Down's syndrome who
left for the big city of Helsinki for a promised
secretarial job. Vaarga immediately suspects that the
daughter has been victimized by a human trafficking gang.
Despite his weakened condition and the ongoing attacks of
his enemies, he is determined to find little Loviise. In
his mind, filled as it is with pain killers, he believes
that finding the girl will be his talisman to get Kate to
come back to him? Given his condition and the likelihood
of finding a young girl, can he possibly find her still
alive?
HELSINKI BLOOD is the fourth novel in James Thompson's
Inspector Vaara series and it is a very raw and
visceral
account of a cop who wants his life back. Thompson
quickly places the reader right into the action as the
story moves from the disabled cop in his big chair to
ruthless and shocking murders and much more in this deftly
written complex and multilayered story of a small
dysfunctional team up the overwhelming power of corrupt
government officials both in Finland and from Russia.
Thompson fans are sure to appreciate this latest
installment as the seemingly cold-blooded and heartless
Inspector Vaara struggles to redeem himself and find his
long buried humanity. While HELSINKI BLOOD reads quite well
as a stand-alone book as Thompson highlights key events
covered in the earlier books, I would definitely encourage
readers to start with the first book, Snow Angels, and then
to read the others in sequence for fullest impact. The
storyline in HELSINKI BLOOD starts within a few weeks from
the dramatic conclusion in Helsinki White.
While Thompson's characters are all unusual, they do come
across as very real as their reactions and motivations are
so true to their characters. Thompson's talents at
particular strong in depicting Vaara as you find yourself
rooting that things will turn out well for him and his
family, despite his bloody-mindedness and cold-blooded ways
of deal with his enemies and even his friends. If you
like non-stop action and highly unusual police related
stories, you will definitely want to delve into the
shocking high voltage and Nordic depths of HELSINKI BLOOD!
It is tough to read and ever harder to put down!
James Thompson's incomparable Inspector Vaara is back in
a new chilling Nordic mystery.
An Estonian woman begs Inspector Kari Vaara to find her
daughter, Loviise, a young woman with Down syndrome who was
promised work and a better life in Finland… and has since
disappeared.
One more missing girl is a drop in the barrel for a
police department that is understaffed and overburdened, but
for Kari, the case is personal: it’s a chance for
redemption, to help the victims his failed black-ops unit
was intended to save, and to prove to his estranged wife,
Kate, that he’s still the man he once was.
His search will lead him from the glittering world of
Helsinki’s high-class clubs to the darkest circles of
Finland’s underground trade in trafficked women and straight
into the path of Loviise’s captors, who may be some of the
most untouchable people in the country.
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