Fatal Headwind (36 page)

I took one more swig before leaving.

I knocked on Koivu’s door and opened it.

“Koivu!” My voice was already a little thick. “Hey, Koivu, take me home.”

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Photo © 2011 Tomas Whitehouse

Finland’s bestselling female crime author, Leena Lehtolainen first rose to fame with her series starring feisty detective Maria Kallio. She won the Finnish Whodunnit Society’s annual prize for the best Finnish crime novel twice and was nominated for the prestigious Glass Key Award for the best Nordic crime novel. Her books have been translated into twenty-nine languages and have sold over two million copies. Lehtolainen currently lives in Finland with her husband and two sons.

ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR

Photo © 2015 Owen Witesman

Owen F. Witesman is a professional literary translator with a master’s in Finnish and Estonian area studies from Indiana University. He has translated more than thirty Finnish books into English, including novels, children’s books, poetry, plays, graphic novels, and nonfiction. His recent translations include the novels
My First Murder
,
Her Enemy
,
Copper Heart
,
Snow Woman
, and
Death Spiral
from the Maria Kallio series by Leena Lehtolainen; the novels in the Snow White trilogy by Salla Simukka; the satire
The Human Part
by Kari Hotakainen; the thrillers
Cold Courage
and
Black Noise
by Pekka Hiltunen; Risto Isomäki’s eco-thriller
Lithium-6
; and the nonfiction opus
The Mapmakers’ World
by Marjo Nurminen. He currently resides in Springville, Utah, with his wife and three daughters, two dogs, a cat, and twenty-nine fruit trees.