Book description
Every year since the death of his wife, Detective Kimmo Joentaa
prepares a glass of milk and a bottle of vodka to arm himself against
the isolation of Christmas and the harsh Finnish winter.
But this Christmas Eve, his lonely routine is interrupted: first by
the unepxected arrival of a damaged young woman and then by the murder
of two men - one of them Joentaa's colleague on the police force.
JAN COSTIN WAGNER was born in 1972 in Langen/Hesse near Frankfurt.
After studying German language, literature and history at Frankfurt
University, he went on to work as a journalist and freelance writer. He
divides his time between Germany and Finland (the home country of his
wife). His first crime novel featuring Detective Kimmo Joentaa was
Ice Moon
(2006) and
Silence
(2010) is the second in the series.
Silence
won the 2008 German Crime Prize.
