Discover the asocial world of Shark
Aliisa Tuulikki Ykspetäjä. It’s a mouthful for non-Finns, so it’s helpful everybody knows her as Shark. Thirty-two, one-handed, Finnish, emotionally deplete with a social circle of one. But don’t let that put you off. As a Detective Chief Inspector at Greater Bradford CID, she gets through her cases, her expertise in missing children and murder is second to none. Some would say she’s murder to work with.
Beefy plants his size twelves on the extensive black desk.
‘Why anyone would choose to live out in the sticks, I’ll never know.’
I cough.
‘Yes, Shark, but living out on the bare moors probably reminds you of the empty wastelands of Finland, and you’re certifiably antisocial anyway.’
He means asocial. We asocials get this all the time. We don’t bite, bark at full moons, attack people or eat them. Not often anyway.
The investigations are set in and around West Yorkshire, England, and Finland and based on real cases.
If you enjoy the psychological intrigue of Karin Fossum’s “Inspector Konrad Sejer”, the incisive detective nous of Colin Dexter’s “Inspector Morse”, or the dark, acid humour of Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö’s “Martin Beck”, you’ll be at home here.
Shark - The Prequel
Aliisa Tuulikki Ykspetäjä sits before the bulk of Superintendent Chris Braithwaite, her would-be boss at Greater Bradford CID, with hopes of being selected for the position of Detective Chief Inspector. Is she able to keep her dark side under wraps while convincing the big man she’s exactly the person he needs? A case turns up, and she’s put to the test.
Shark - the detective series
Sabine
While heavy snow blankets the county of West Yorkshire, Detective Chief Inspector Aliisa Tuulikki Ykspetäjä is tasked with investigating the disappearance of Sabine, the daughter of a celebrated architect couple, Stephanie and Maximilian Moller. Is it just another routine teenage runaway, or something more? Can the asocial Shark navigate the unholy subtleties of human nature to bring Sabine home?
Meanwhile, bizzare murder unsettles the citizens of Bradford.
Silent John
In the early hours, in a guarded hospital room, a suspect is under detention with no clues to his identity, where he came from, where he was going, why he ran down a police officer, and drove his vehicle at speed into a police road block, with devastating consequences – and he’s saying nothing. Can Shark resolve the case with a new partner?
Meantime, the “Costume Killings” continue to cause alarm, with Emily assuming the mantle of “Costume Killer” expert.
Chilled Waters
Shark’s mind is on the past as Finnair flight AY1338 kisses the Helsinki-Vantaa runway. She’s returned to find her real mother. Finding her might be her most harrowing case yet.
Meanwhile, back in the UK, suspicions are growing over the missing Sadman, and suspicious eyes are looking Shark’s way.
And the serial killings are continuing apace.
Who’s going to end them?
The Nightjar
The case has all the makings of a cosy mystery – a strange death on some lonely moor, an isolated chapel, rumours of devil worship, unaccountable occurrences in the night, a family feud – and all set in a remote English parish.
It’s a setup for any amateur sleuth to step in and solve the case – only it’s not that simple.
Nothing is ever simple in Shark’s world.
Salo
Salo is where the Samaritans go to commit suicide. Shark should know, it’s where she’s from.
She’s returned because a series of gruesome, Nail-in-the-Neck style copycat killings are beginning to appear across southern Finland.
Shark is invited to make up an unlikely alliance to investigate and stop the murders.
Unfortunately, her re-appearance in Salo opens the eyes of a certain superintendent who believes she’s behind a suspicious death during her previous visit to the city.
All Good Things
There’s no such thing as the perfect murder. That’s what they say.
The search intensifies for the missing detective, the net closing in on the killer, no resources being spared – including Shark’s. But she’s damned if she takes on the case, damned if she doesn’t. Her record is impeccable and she doesn’t want to spoil it.
And while one detective is determined her suspicions will be proved correct, the other is determined to keep out of her clutches.
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