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    Copper Heart
    Copper Heart
    Copper Heart
    Audiobook7 hours

    Copper Heart

    Written by Leena Lehtolainen

    Narrated by Amy Rubinate

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Former police sergeant Maria Kallio gladly left her tiny Finnish hometown of Arpikylä without looking back. But even though Maria despises the small town and the acrid smell from its now-closed copper mine, when Arpikylä’s sheriff asks her to serve as deputy sheriff for the summer, she agrees.

    What should have been a quiet summer soon turns dramatic—and deadly. Meritta, an outspoken local artist, plunges to her death from the copper mine’s tower, and Maria immediately suspects someone helped her fall. Now Maria must face the harsh truth that one of the town’s residents killed Meritta, and friends Maria has known for decades all harbor their own murderous motives—even Johnny, her gorgeous former crush who almost makes her forget about her long-distance boyfriend, Antti, who is studying in Chicago.

    In this thrilling addition to the internationally successful Maria Kallio mystery series, the past and present of the beloved Finnish detective violently collide, leaving her future in grave danger.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    TranslatorOwen F. Witesman
    Release dateJan 19, 2016
    ISBN9781511365413
    Copper Heart
    Author

    Leena Lehtolainen

    Leena Lehtolainen was born in Vesanto, Finland, to parents who taught language and literature. A keen reader, she made up stories in her head before she could even write. At the age of ten, she began her first book—a young adult novel—and published it two years later. She released her second book at the age of seventeen. She has received numerous awards for her writing, including the 1997 Vuoden Johtolanka (Clue) Award for the best Finnish crime novel and the Great Finnish Book Club prize in 2000. Her work has been published in twenty-nine languages. Besides writing, Leena enjoys classical singing, her beloved cats, and—her greatest passion—figure skating. Her nonfiction book about the sport, Taitoluistelun lumo (The Enchantment of Figure Skating), was chosen as the Sport Book of the Year 2011 in Finland. Leena lives in Finland with her husband and two sons.

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    • 3/5
      I got this book through Goodreads' First Reads program! Thank you Goodreads and Amazon!

      'Copper Heart' is third in a series, but it works perfectly well as a self-contained, stand-alone story.

      Cop Maria Kallio has taken a temporary job in her hometown as acting Sheriff, for the summer. She's a bit emotionally ambivalent about going back to the small mining town she was so happy to escape, and even more emotionally confused about running into Johnny, the object of her unrequited teenage crush.
      But things get even worse when an old acquaintance, the free-spirited artist Meritta, is found dead - and Johnny may be the primary suspect.

      It's not bad, but it's a pretty formulaic mystery which doesn't transcend genre. There's a murder, there's a cast of characters, all of whom may have some kind of motive for murder, and the investigator does her investigating. Good for light entertainment.
    • 4/5
      This is the third in the series featuring Finnish detective/lawyer Maria Kallio, and the best of three. The Finnish setting is the key thing that made me keep reading after two rather pedestrian efforts, and in this book that's even more in focus. Maria is filling a temporary post as sheriff in her home town -- a small northeastern Finnish mining town called Arpikyla, which translates into "Scar Town". The town has indeed left scars on many of its residents, including Maria, and the depiction of small town life is very interesting. The secondary characters are also better developed than in the first two novels, where many of the suspects seemed like different editions of the same person. Not so here. The plotting is still relatively predictable (I guessed who did it early on), but the book was distinctly enjoyable. On to the next!