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Detective Maria Kallio investigates a doping scandal turned murder in award-winning author Leena Lehtolainen's pulse-pounding thriller. After surviving a terrifying assault during her last investigation, Maria Kallio traded in her badge for a comfortable desk job. But when the head of social affairs for the Finnish Athletics Federation is murdered--the victim of an apparent poisoning--Maria is drawn back into a race against more than murder. A series of crimes has unfolded, and to Maria's show more trained eyes, they look like the makings of a conspiracy. As Maria follows the track to a doping scandal, a money-laundering scheme, domestic abuse, and explosive death threats leveled against a sports reporter, she collects the pieces of a baffling puzzle. Now, to run down the killer and save the next victim, all she has to do is make them fit. So far only one thing is for certain: Maria Kallio is rediscovering the thrill of the chase. show lessTags
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This is the first Maria Kallio book that I've read, and I was favorably impressed. While this is the most recent in a 10-book series, it was relatively easy to pick up the background and not feel lost (though I think I'll appreciate Maria's reluctance more after I read the previous books, not having that knowledge didn't detract from this story). Maria is a refreshing addition to the police procedural--a mother, a cop, and a wife who has to play different roles as her day progresses. I highly recommend this book and I plan to check out the earlier novels.
I received the book for free through Goodreads Giveaways.
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- Canonical title
- Derailed
- Original title
- Väärän jäljillä
- Alternate titles
- Auf der falschen Spur
- Original publication date
- 2008
- Disambiguation notice
- Original title: Väärän jäljillä (On the Wrong Track)
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Mystery
- DDC/MDS
- 894.54133 — Literature & rhetoric Asian Literature Literatures of Altaic, Uralic, Hyperborean, Dravidian languages; literatures of miscellaneous languages of south Asia Finno-Ugric languages Finnic languages Finnish Finnish fiction 1900–2000
- LCC
- PH355 .L376 .V3313 — Language and Literature Uralic languages. Basque language Uralic. Basque Finnish
- BISAC
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- Languages
- English, Finnish, German
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 11
- ASINs
- 3
