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If you have yet to read any of James Thompson’s first-rate novels featuring the exploits of Finnish cop Kari Vaara, please take this advice from me:
Tackle them in order of their publication.
First read Snow Angels, (Booklist called it “one of the best debut crime novels of 2010”). The book takes place in Finland’s far north and sets the stage for the three that follow.
Lucifer’s Tears (a Kirkus pick for one of the Best Ten Crime Novels of 2011) brings Vaara to Helsinki and involves him in a sequen ...more
Tackle them in order of their publication.
First read Snow Angels, (Booklist called it “one of the best debut crime novels of 2010”). The book takes place in Finland’s far north and sets the stage for the three that follow.
Lucifer’s Tears (a Kirkus pick for one of the Best Ten Crime Novels of 2011) brings Vaara to Helsinki and involves him in a sequen ...more
No as good as his previous efforts in that Thompson spends too much time letting his hero and his wife bemoan their difficulties which ends in a combo of drugs and alcohol, the supporting cast brings the rating up to acceptable.
Mar 15, 2013
Julie Griffin
marked it as to-read
