Jarkko Sipilä: Helsinki Homicide: Nothing but the Truth

Jarkko Sipilä: Helsinki Homicide: Nothing but the Truth
Ice Cold Crime, 2011, 321 pages, pocket book,
Condition: good
Original title: Mitään salaamatta

Hyväkuntoinen pehmeäkantinen englanninkielinen Jarkko Sipilän dekkari.

Helsinki Homicide –series:

Kari Takamaki is a detective lieutenant in the Helsinki Police Violent Crimes Unit. Takamaki, unlike most Finnish fictional police characters is not a boozing wildcat, but the ultimate professional who directs his team to track down criminals in an organized fashion. He is also a family man who strives to spend any extra time with his family, sometimes to no avail.

Sipila’s style is direct, realistic, and action packed. He comprehensively describes modern police work in Finland and discusses, but without lecturing, many issues facing today’s societies, such as racism, immigration, witness protection, and legality / morality of police activity around the grey areas, etc. Sipila also address the difficulties and stresses of ordinary police work on the police force and the dedication of Takamaki and his team to their jobs.

NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH, Ice Cold Crime, 2011

Helsinki Homicide: Nothing but the Truth – How much should you have to sacrifice? Third translation from the author of the 2009 Best Finnish Crime Novel A young cocaine dealer is gunned down at the door of his apartment on the outskirts of downtown Helsinki. Detective Lieutenant Kari Takamäki and his homicide team find the trigger man-but who was working behind the scenes? A woman from a neighboring building comes forward with an image of the getaway driver’s face burned into her memory. After testifying in the trial, she finds herself the target of an escalating spiral of threats. Not wishing to uproot her life, she and her twelve-year-old daughter risk death by spurning the police’s offer of a safe house. As the threats mount, the witness is torn between her principles and her desire to keep her family safe. How much should an ordinary citizen sacrifice for the benefit of society as a whole? Helsinki Homicide: Nothing but the Truth is yet another thrilling read from Sipila. A prequel to previously published Against the Wall and Vengeance, this is the third of his books to be translated into English.

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