Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

Where Have All the Young Girls Gone
Where Have All the Young Girls Gone
Where Have All the Young Girls Gone
Audiobook9 hours

Where Have All the Young Girls Gone

Written by Leena Lehtolainen

Narrated by Amy Rubinate

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

3.5/5

()

About this audiobook

A group of hate crimes, a conspiracy, or a coincidence? Investigator Maria Kallio searches for answers close to home in award-winning author Leena Lehtolainen’s riveting thriller.

After completing a dangerous mission training police officers in war-torn Afghanistan, Detective Maria Kallio returns to Finland as the head of a new special crimes unit. But what awaits her in her home country is her most challenging and unsettling case yet. Three immigrant Muslim girls, all members of the same social club, have gone missing under mysterious circumstances. When the body of a fourth girl is found in the snow, strangled with her own headscarf, the investigation takes on a grim new urgency.

Is there a xenophobic serial killer on the loose? A random white nationalist? Or does something more insidious bind the girls? In a Finnish city struggling to assimilate a new population of Muslim immigrants, the answers are hard to come by…

One thing is certain: it will take a detective familiar with the darkest depths of humanity to sift through the wreckage of clashing cultures in search of the truth. That detective is Maria Kallio.

LanguageEnglish
TranslatorOwen F. Witesman
Release dateJan 8, 2019
ISBN9781978650220
Where Have All the Young Girls Gone
Author

Leena Lehtolainen

Leena Lehtolainen was born in Vesanto, Finland, to parents who taught language and literature. A keen reader, she made up stories in her head before she could even write. At the age of ten, she began her first book—a young adult novel—and published it two years later. She released her second book at the age of seventeen. She has received numerous awards for her writing, including the 1997 Vuoden Johtolanka (Clue) Award (for the best Finnish crime novel) for Luminainen (The Snow Woman), the Great Finnish Book Club prize in 2000, and more. Besides writing, Leena enjoys classical singing, her beloved cats, and—her greatest passion—figure skating. Her nonfiction book about figure skating, Taitoluistelun lumo (The Enchantment of Figure Skating), was chosen as the Sport Book of the Year 2011 in Finland. Copper Heart, now translated into English, serves as another thrilling adventure in the best-selling Maria Kallio series. Leena lives in Finland with her husband and two sons.

More audiobooks from Leena Lehtolainen

Related to Where Have All the Young Girls Gone

Titles in the series (11)

View More

Related audiobooks

Police Procedural For You

View More

Related articles

Related categories

Reviews for Where Have All the Young Girls Gone

Rating: 3.44 out of 5 stars
3.5/5

25 ratings2 reviews

What did you think?

Tap to rate

Review must be at least 10 words

  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This manages to be a compelling read despite rather than because of the plot. The plot looks straightforward: Maria has to investigate the disappearance of three Islamic immigrant girls, and then the murder of a fourth. Unfortunately, it wanders all over the place. Usually, this would make me stop reading, but in this instance the characters and the problems they face were so interesting that I stayed involved.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Hate crimes and cultural differencesComplex story involving Detective Maria Kallio fresh from Afghanistan where she's been helping with the training of Afghani police women. An exercise that ended in tragedy and unbeknownst to her will hold overtones for her forthcoming role as head of a new special crimes unit.Three immigrant Muslim girls are missing and converging thought has their fate hovering between the possibility of them being runaways, of honor killings, possible actions by white nationalists, the involvement of Afghani drug lords, or that their families have sent them away.The truth is layered somewhere between cultural differences and people's attitudes. Kallio gives an outstanding performance as an investigator with a conscience looking into sensitive issues.Although this is the 11th in the Kallio series it reads well as a stand alone.Having visited some of the places in Finland mentioned, the reading brought to mind some treasured moments.Lehtolainen continues to be a strong voice in the Nordic Noir trope.An AmazonCrossing ARC via NetGalley