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Anna Fekete, who fled the Yugoslavian wars as a child, starts working as a criminal investigator in a northern Finnish coastal town, with her new partner, Esko, who doesn't bother hiding his racist prejudices. Anna's work as a criminal investigator barely gets off the ground before she is thrust into a high-profile, seemingly unsolvable case that has riveted the nation. A young woman has been killed on a running trail, and a pendant depicting an Aztec god has been found in her possession. Another murder soon follows. All signs point to a serial killer, but can Anna catch the Hummingbird before he - or she - strikes again? Kati Hiekkapelto is a special needs teacher by training. She lives on an old farm on the island of Hailuoto in Northern Finland. This is her first novel. Translated from the Finnish by David Hackston.
- Sales Rank: #914827 in Books
- Brand: Arcadia Books
- Published on: 2014-12-23
- Original language: Finnish
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.60" h x 1.10" w x 5.10" l, .84 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 364 pages
- Arcadia Books
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
"Wicked people are full of darkness."
By Fairbanks Reader - Bonnie Brody
Anna Fekete is a new hire in the Finnish police department's Violent Crime Unit. She is originally from Hungary and is a survivor of the Serbo-Croatian war. She immigrated to Finland with her mother and brother when she was a child. She speaks fluent Finnish and English, along with several other languages. This book begins as she starts her job in the violent crime unit and is partnered up with Esko, a racist, prejudiced drunk. She questions if she can bear spending time with this taciturn, unpleasant man who does not speak to her and covers the alcohol on his breath with mints.
Shortly after she begins her job, a jogger is murdered by a shotgun blast to the head. This murder is followed by two others and the police are now seeking a serial killer, a rarity in Finland. Anna is a great cop but she has a tendency towards depression and insomnia. She once served in the Finnish army and was a good jogger but lately she spends her time channel surfing and smoking cigarettes. She has a brother named Akos who she has not seen in several years. He is an alcoholic and addict and she decides to make contact with him which causes her more problems.
There are no real leads on the case except that a small necklace is left in the pocket of each victim. The necklace is an Aztec symbol for a powerful and wrathful god. The only other connection between the victims is that they are killed while they are out for a run in the evening.
Anna is also intrigued by another case, that of a Kurdish high school student who has called the police emergency number asking for help. When the call is responded to, the girl says that she dialed the number by mistake. Anna doesn't believe her and thinks that the girl is in danger. She decides, on her own, to watch the family and to see what is going on. She knows that some Kurdish families believe in honor killings and isolating their female children until marriage and Anna is suspicious that this might be going on here.
The characters are well-developed, which is one of the real strengths of this book. I felt like I got to know a lot about Anna and Esko as I got deeper into the novel. The book is a real page-turner and a good thriller. My only problem with it is that the climax about the serial killer occurs at the very end and seems implausible. The situation with the Kurdish girl is resolved wonderfully and added a lot to my enjoyment of the book. I think that some of the translation is a bit awkward but most of the book reads very smoothly. It is a thriller that I'd recommend to readers who enjoy Scandinavian noir.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Good Bones, But Horrible English Translation
By Charlie Watanabe
I'm a fan of Scandinavian noir. I started this book based on an article on the genre in The Guardian.
This book is a translation from the Finnish language original. I can see the author has potential. However, I'm having real issues with the translation. Firstly, this is a translation from Finnish to British English. That's OK, it adds to the charm. Also, Finns speaking English would likely be using that dialect. However, the translator (David Hackston) makes some peculiar word choices. They are not in character with the protagonist, the genre, or at points technically correct.
For example, early in the story Anna Fekete refers to her own "ass" as her "bottom". I can't envision her inner dialog being so juvenile. The description of a murder is made confusing by the erroneous use of the word "rifle". The murder weapon is typically used for duck hunting. Ducks are not hunted with a rifle. The murder weapon is a "shotgun". Also, shotguns 'shoot' "pellets" or "shot" not "bullets" as found in the text. Another example is Anna's use of the expression "bloke-to-bloke". I feel certain it was originally "man-to-man". Which is also the common usage in the UK.
Characters are good. The Anna character being the best. The values dissonance experienced by her character is the strongest suite of this story. Supporting police characters at the nick are a tad clichéd. Although, the Finnish spin to them makes them different enough. Victims, perps and supporting characters are a bit thin, but not cardboard.
Plotting has a solid foundation, but gets a bit creaky as the story progresses. Background plots are the stock "They Fight Crime!" trope going on between Anna and the Esko police character. A murder and a separate immigrant cultural clash push the story along. Steps taken will remind you of any British police procedural. I thought the author was too liberal with her red herrings. In addition, the perp is introduced at a peculiar time. The immigrant secondary story was more interesting to me than the main story.
Not being Finnish, world building is a part of this story for me. Action takes place in an unnamed, coastal Finnish city. I'm certain its Oulu from the minor locations that pop-up in the story. I can't agree with not naming the locale. I'd like to know more about Finland, without the locations be anonymized. However the city is a good backdrop for the current social issues of Finnish society exposed in the story.
This story has good bones. However, a translator or a good British copy editor more attuned to the lingo of noir, mysteries would have greatly benefited this book. Cringe worthy technical errors related to firearms exist throughout. Prose was frankly, weird giving the book a clunky YA feel. While the author and character have some merit, this book is just too poorly done for me to continue the next in the series "The Defenceless". Life is too short and reading time too scarce to waste it reading shoddily translated scandi-noir stories, when many well translated stories are 'out there'.
Readers interested in good scandi-noir should read "Blood on the Snow" by Jo Nesbø.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Just OK
By Dad
Although I finished the book, I could have put it down at any time without regret. I will say the ending was satisfying it just took a long time to get there. I found it hard to like or sympathize with Anna Fekete or most of the other characters. I find it hard to deal with people who feel sorry themselves without trying to help themselves, which I thought Anna and some of the other characters were doing. All in all I thought the plot line was pretty good but the way it was told was somewhat tedious.
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