The Careless Whistleblower

Scandinoir is back....in a big way! And here, we are fully immersed. The action opens in Turku, a town in South west Finland opposite Stockholm across the Baltic sea by overnight ferry. A routine police matter spins into something much more, when Chief Inspector Kaari Sippula, details of murky Nato operations in the past, and intrigues in her own family's history seem to intermingle, in a story that takes us to Bahrain, Syria and Turkey, before a showdown in Finland, where a Finnish suspect of Indian descent, a rock band from Britain, elements of the Assyrian civilisation, and the remnants of a cold war Nato group all come together in a uniquely gripping read. Starlingsson's The Careless Whistleblower has all the eerieness of classic Scandinoir, but there is more in the melange here that makes this a thrilling book, more that I do not dare divulge here, but will surely come to you in echos when you have reached the final page, in what is yet again a classical scene, a hallmark of Starlingsson's writing..

IW Talpian.