Martta Kaukonen’s FOLLOW THE BUTTERFLY trilogy travels to Iceland!

We are thrilled to announce that Storytel has acquired the Icelandic rights to Martta Kaukonen’s FOLLOW THE BUTTERFLY, MEET ME IN THE DARKNESS and FREE (working title). The deal was closed by Martti Berner. This is Kaukonen’s first three-book deal. Follow the Butterfly has now sold to 16 territories, with a full English manuscript available!

Congratulations to Martta Kaukonen, and Storytel!

Martta Kaukonen’s international acclaim continues to grow. Follow the Butterfly was recently nominated for Germany’s Viktor Crime Award and previously for the prestigious Glass Key Award. Published as Therapiert in Germany, the book has sold over 24,000 copies and it hit the Spiegel bestseller list. Film and TV rights have been acquired by Legendary Tobis. Martta Kaukonen’s work has received glowing starred reviews everywhere it has been published.

The eagerly anticipated third book in the Follow the Butterfly series is set for Finnish publication in May 2025, and its stunning cover has just been revealed! Heyne Verlag is set to release the second book, Traumatisiert, in Spring 2025, with Pushkin Press planning to publish the English edition of the second book around the same time.

English and German editions are available!

Click here to download all reading materials for FOLLOW THE BUTTERFLY!

Want to be part of this global phenomenon? Rights are still available in Sweden, France, World Spanish, the Netherlands, Portugal, China, Thailand, and more!

FOLLOW THE BUTTERFLY offers a brilliant cat and mouse game between the author and the reader. Regardless of which narrator you choose to believe, the pieces of this psychological thriller ultimately click into place like a jigsaw puzzle. – The Times

FOLLOW THE BUTTERFLY
by Martta Kaukonen

An addictive psychological thriller in the spirit of Gillian Flynn

Ira, 20, a serial killer who was abducted as a child, starts therapy with celebrity therapist Clarissa. Only one of them knows that they share a mutual secret from the past. Will the other one realize it before she gets murdered?

Clarissa is a middle-aged psychotherapist, the best in her field. She is familiar to everyone from her TV appearances and from glossy magazines. For her, every patient is a princess. And someone only she can save. Or can she? Clarissa already has one suicide to answer for; a teenage boy’s death never seizes to haunt her.

When Ira becomes Clarissa’s patient, a cat-and-mouse game begins in which rules are followed by no one. The kind of game that never ends well.

MEET ME IN THE DARKNESS
by Martta Kaukonen

Nothing is as it seems.

Four years have passed since the events of Follow the Butterfly. Ira and Arto have teamed up, and both work as crime journalists for the Helsinki Today. Everything’s going nicely, until Ira starts suspecting there’s a serial killer on the loose in Helsinki.

The murders are investigated by Senior Crime Inspector Kerttu Leppänen, who leads the murder unit and eagerly waits for retirement. Unsolved cases haunt Kerttu, who is unable to forgive herself.

The past catches up with all of them – if they were ever free from its clutches in the first place…

FREE
by Martta Kaukonen

Is it worth digging up the truth?

It’s 1995. Detective Chief Inspector Kerttu Leppänen and her spouse, Inspector Esko Koivuvyö, are tasked with investigating the murder of a middle-aged woman. However, the crime scene presents a mystery that complicates the investigation: beside the body, there is a bloody knife on a pillow, even though it cannot be the murder weapon.

Thirty years later, Ira is determined to uncover the truth about her parents’ marriage. Why did her mother Marja fear her father Arto? And why does Arto refuse to answer Ira’s questions? Across different decades, Kerttu and Ira each come to the same realization: if you uncover the truth, you must be prepared to face its consequences.