As Red as Blood

By Salla Simukka

Book #1 in the Lumikki Andersson series

A teen discovers laundered money, plunging into a deadly web of crime and deception.

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236 pages

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In snow-covered Tampere, Finland, seventeen-year-old Lumikki Andersson stumbles upon laundered money in her school's darkroom. Her solitary life is upended as she delves into a dangerous world of corruption linked to the international drug trade. As she navigates this treacherous path, Lumikki must outsmart a cunning criminal known as the 'Polar Bear.' Can she unravel the mystery before becoming his next victim? The stakes are high, and the clock is ticking in this gripping Nordic crime thriller.

From the publisher

The first story in the thrilling Nordic crime series The Snow White Trilogy, an international success published in 52 territories worldwide and soon to be a Hollywood film. ‘Fans of Nesbø and Larsson won’t be disappointed’ Publishers Weekly The streets of Finland are frozen and white with snow. And nothing is as red against snow as blood . . . Seventeen-year-old Lumikki Andersson is hardly your average teenager. She lives by herself in the city of Tampere, Finland, and has a firm rule to mind nobody’s business but her own. But that rule is put to the test when she happens upon five hundred washed euro notes hanging up to dry in her school’s darkroom, and it is shattered once Lumikki realises who owns them. Caught in an increasingly tangled web of deception, corruption and danger, Lumikki finds herself navigating Tampere’s dark underbelly in her quest to expose its shocking connection to the international drugs trade. Lumikki is smart, but is she smarter than a master criminal? Can she bring down the infamous ‘Polar Bear’ - or will she become another one of his victims?

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