Meet Me in the Darkness

Five years ago, Ida bravely took the stand against her celebrity therapist Clarissa Virta-and Virta's monstrous husband. Now in her twenties and working alongside her newly sober father at Helsinki Aviisi's crime desk, Ida stumbles upon a disturbing pattern: a series of murders that point to a hidden serial killer stalking the streets of Helsinki. Leading the official investigation is Detective Chief Inspector Kerttu Leppänen, a veteran homicide officer with retirement in sight and ghosts she can't lay to rest. Haunted by unsolved cases and her own regrets, Kerttu is determined to uncover the truth before the killer strikes again. But the past has a way of tightening its grip. And it's not finished with them yet.



Martta Kaukonen lives in Helsinki. Before she became a full-time author, she was a film critic for Finland's biggest newspaper. Alongside writing, Martta loves psychological thrillers, film noir, flea markets, abandoned houses and travelling. Follow the Butterfly was her debut thriller - it was a critical and commercial hit in Finland, is being translated into twelve languages, has already made the Spiegel bestseller list in Germany and is being adapted for a TV series. Meet Me in the Darkness is its sequel.