Katja Ivar

A woman author and a female heroine. A misunderstood, flawed, whip-smart detective, now a P.I, fighting against both prejudice and crime. Hella Mauzer has just been fired by the police and is now a reluctant private investigator. Escaping the mind-numbing routine of shadowing unfaithful spouses, Hella finds herself at the centre of an investigation of multiple murders. It all begins...

Lapland, Finland, 1952. It's the height of the Cold War, and Finland is a snow-smothered powder keg. Sharing a long border with the Soviet Union, the country is engaged in a high-wire act of protecting its independence from its sometimes dangerous neighbour. Hella Mauzer is the first female Inspector in the Helsinki Homicide Unit. Or was, until she was deemed...

Helsinki, June 1953, at the heart of the Cold War. Hella, now a reluctant private investigator, has been asked by her former boss at the Helsinki murder squad to do a background check on a member of the Finnish secret services. Not the type of job Hella was hoping for, but she accepts it on the condition that she is...