Jan Costin Wagner - The Winter of the Lions, An Atmospheric Crime Mystery Novel

Jan Costin Wagner is a German crime author, yet the setting of his thriller novel series is Finland. The first instalment of the series is Ice Moon (2006), followed by Silence, then, in 2011, the third and newest part, a great and atmospheric read, The Winter of the Lions.



Detective Kimmo Joentaa usually spends Christmas time alone since his wife has died. However, this year his habit seems to change: a complainant – a young lady furthermore, supposedly a prostitute, appears in his home unexpectedly, and they decorate a tree together. In the meanwhile, two men get murdered, one of them, a forensic pathologist, was Joentaa’s old friend. He starts investigating the cases. It turns out that both men appeared in a known talk show not much before they died.