
American-trained bodyguard Hilja Ilveskero is accustomed to danger. Once there, hilja tries to forget David, but her heart just won’t let go. Maybe that’s what attracted her to agent david stahl in the first place—he’s sexy, he’s dashing, and he’s most definitely dangerous—and try as she might, she just can’t seem to stay away.
When hilja meets david for a secret rendezvous in Italy, their romantic holiday is cut short by a deadly turn of events. After david goes missing and hilja comes upon a fresh corpse in his cabin, she decides it’s time to make a quick return to Finland.
The Bodyguard The Bodyguard Series Book 1

As a professional bodyguard, Hilja Ilveskero rarely loses her cool. But one day, she and a client have an argument in a Moscow fur salon, and Hilja quits on the spot. A fast-paced, betrayal, tightly woven tale of love, and high-stakes deal-making, murder, The Bodyguard—the first in a gripping trilogy by internationally acclaimed Nordic crime author Leena Lehtolainen—exposes the delicacy and dark underbelly of international relations on both a human and global scale.
When the client turns up dead, Hilja quickly discovers that she is a suspect.
The Devil's Cubs The Bodyguard Series Book 3

Hilja must do everything in her power to protect enemies, loved ones, and innocents alike. From bestselling scandinavian crime writer Leena Lehtolainen comes the final gripping installment of The Bodyguard series.
Derailed Maria Kallio Book 10

Detective maria kallio investigates a doping scandal turned murder in award-winning author Leena Lehtolainen’s pulse-pounding thriller. After surviving a terrifying assault during her last investigation, Maria Kallio traded in her badge for a comfortable desk job. Now, to run down the killer and save the next victim, all she has to do is make them fit.
So far only one thing is for certain: Maria Kallio is rediscovering the thrill of the chase.
Where Have All the Young Girls Gone Maria Kallio Book 11

Three immigrant muslim girls, all members of the same social club, have gone missing under mysterious circumstances. That detective is Maria Kallio. 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.
But what awaits her in her home country is her most challenging and unsettling case yet.
The Nightingale Murder Maria Kallio Book 9

The victim’s clients included some of the top names in Finnish society, but the list of suspects is even longer: her infatuated bodyguard, a suicidal TV producer, and a talk-show host with political aspirations. But how is lulu’s murder connected to the tortured woman’s disappearance?As the body count keeps rising, Maria plunges into the dark demimonde of the sex trade.
Though the victim refused to identify herself, Violent Crimes Unit Commander Maria Kallio suspects she’s connected to the city’s sex-worker underworld. And this time, searching for answers may shatter all that she has.
Below the Surface Maria Kallio Book 8

Almost as soon as the inquiry starts, it goes off the rails, as those connected to Annukka—and to Smeds—seem to have more secrets than they have alibis. Was the journalist about to reveal a bombshell that someone was desperate to keep quiet? Or will it take some reading between the lines? The clues may be few, but the list of suspects is long.
As she struggles to balance her home life, and catch a killer, run a department tainted by career-threatening allegations, Maria is shocked to find just what someone was willing to do in the name of love…or revenge.
Before I Go Maria Kallio Book 7

Can maria track them down before the next victim falls? Did they finally finish the hate crime they started? But the trail soon reveals a web of lies—secrets Petri was keeping from even those closest to him—and a long list of suspects. As she juggles her obligations as a wife, and detective, mother, Maria suggests to her superiors that what first appears to be a random assault may actually be something more sinister.
A fierce detective risks everything to unravel a tangle of secrets and corruption protecting a killer in this spellbinding seventh mystery in the tension-filled Maria Kallio series. When petri ilveskivi is murdered in the street on his way to a city-planning meeting, Maria Kallio, commander of Espoo’s Violent Crime Unit, and her team are first on the scene.
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Fatal Headwind Maria Kallio Book 6

But before assuming her new post as head of the Violent Crime Unit, she vacations with her husband and daughter on the island of Rödskär. In light of such a coincidence, kallio searches for the link between these two tragedies and is soon convinced that they weren’t accidents—they were murders. Was the ceo’s disillusioned wife involved? his environmental-activist son? Or perhaps his rebellious daughter? Or might the culprit be his half brother, an adventurous sailor whom Kallio finds altogether a little too intriguing?From internationally bestselling Finnish author Leena Lehtolainen comes the sixth book of the gripping Maria Kallio Mystery series.
As the finnish nights grow longer, so too does the list of suspects.
Death Spiral Maria Kallio Book 5

Death spiral, high stakes, the fifth book in Lehtolainen’s international bestselling Nordic crime series, is a chilling tale of hot tempers, and the untimely death of a rising star. But when the sixteen-year-old skating sensation is found slain with her own skates, her promising career is unexpectedly cut short.
Detective maria kallio is seven months pregnant, but that isn’t going to stop her from putting everything she has into solving the murder.
Snow Woman Maria Kallio Book 4

As the missing woman’s friends and family quickly become the pool of suspects, Maria must soften her tough interrogation style to uncover the information she needs to solve the crime. Meanwhile, a killer Maria put in prison escapes and sets out to take revenge.