Loukko by 
Original title: Hengissä
Author: Martta Kaukonen
Published: 2023
Publisher: WSOY
Genre: Crime & Suspense
Pages: 272
Part of a series: Follow the Butterfly
Reading material:
English synopsis, German ms., English ms in October 2024.
Nothing is as it seems.
✓ Sequel to the internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed Follow the Butterfly!
✓ Rights to Follow the Butterfly have been sold to 15 territories, including UK & US!
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…
Martta Kaukonen wrote a captivatingly intellectual book that is suitable for even the most hardened crime reader. [–] Martta Kaukonen’s second novel Meet Me in the Darkness is a celebration of surprises. [–] Kaukonen’s most skillful magic trick is in the joy of surprise, which she erupts as she betrays the expectations she has created for the reader.
Taika Dahlbom in Helsingin Sanomat newspaper
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Rights sold:
FINLAND: WSOY (orig.)
GERMANY: Heyne
GREECE: Psichogios
HUNGARY: Partvonal Kiadó
POLAND: Czarna Owca
UNITED KINGDOM: Pushkin Press
