Original title: Elävien kirjoihin
Author: Marko Kilpi
Published: 2011
Publisher: Gummerus
Genre: Crime & Suspense
Pages: 498
A gripping depiction of police work against drug crime, but also a haunting love story.
Can people from the opposing sides of life find each other? Is there any hope for them?
Pike has lived her whole life outside the law with Lalli, who rules the underworld with ferocious violence. When she finds out that she is pregnant, Pike is ready to take new steps in her life, but her old life won’t leave her alone. The aging vice cop Elias Kaski notices the strange change in his former regular customer. The change in Pike’s life also begins a process of change in Kaski. In the end, these two lonely souls find that they are each other’s only possibility. But what kind of possibility is it?