A dead man on a boat. The detective’s daughter covered with blood. A cat and a mouse play with a serial killer with high stakes about to begin…
Author: J. M. Ilves
Finnish original: Sorjonen – Loppupeli
Publisher: Gummerus, 2017
Genre: Crime fiction
Number of pages: 331 pp.
Reading material: Finnish original, English sample
Rights sold: Estonia, Post Factum (Eesti Meedia); Germany, Suhrkamp; Poland, Virtualo/EmpikGo
Just as Detective Inspector Kari Sorjonen is starting to get used to his life in the bordertown to Russia, his 18-yearold daughter Janina wakes up on a sailing boat – covered with blood. A body of a middle-aged man is found abroad and all the evidence seems to point at the girl.
As other suspicious deaths start taking place, Sorjonen – not allowed to take part in the official investigation and troubled by his personal worries as well – sees it fit to start an investigation of his own to find out what has really happened…
The first book of the Bordertown series, Doll’s House, was published in 2016. The books are written by two Finnish professional authors under the pseudonym J. M. Ilves.
The novels are based on the internationally successful television series Bordertown, sold so far to over 40 countries.
Also available:
Doll’s House (Bordertown #1)
Five Finger Excersise (Bordertown #3)
The Man-Beast (Bordertown #4)
About the author:
J. M. Ilves