Fatal Headwind – Leena Lehtolainen

The worst situation was on the Indian Ocean when I was doing my solo circumnavigation. East of the Chagos Islands I got hit with this terrible stomach bug. I had a fever for days and couldn’t keep anything down. On the fourth day a small cyclone came up from the south.

I was so weak that I just couldn’t control the boat, and it took on a lot of water. Something made me hold on, though, and I managed to throw out the drag anchor, which is what saved me. And once off the shore of northern Spain I had a rudder break. Luckily the Coast Guard came to the rescue before I floated out into the Atlantic.”

Mikke paused for thirty seconds, then looked straight into my eyes. “And what about you? Have you ever been in danger?” My phone rang before I could answer. Puupponen was calling from the station, asking how to handle one of Ström’s open cases. I moved to the bow to talk, and by the time I had the issue handled, we were almost at the marina. I called Seija Saarela, who said she was available all afternoon.

Koivu said he wasn’t going to interview Saarela or fill out a single line of paperwork until he got some food, so I promised him we’d hit Chico’s for steak fajitas before going to see Saarela. We needed to get moving. I remembered I had promised to get home early so Antti could make it to a vintage French film that was being screened at the State Film Archives. It wasn’t until Koivu slapped me on the back that I realized I was staring at Mikke Sjöberg as he climbed into Holma’s car.

“Maria,” Koivu said cautiously. “Remember that you’re married and that guy is a suspect. You know he’s hiding something.” “Did you escort Wang all the way home last night or just to the bus?” After shooting off that comeback, I headed to our car. Damn it. Koivu was getting to know me a little bit too well.

OceanofPDF.com “I didn’t particularly like Juha Merivaara,” Seija Saarela said, setting down a mottled violet amethyst the size of a baby’s fist. We had gone to her home, which happened to be next door to Jiri’s high school. The living room of the one-bedroom apartment was full of crystals and polishing implements.

No part of this book may be reproduced, or stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without express written permission of the publisher. Text copyright © 1998 by Leena Lehtolainen Translation copyright © 2016 Owen F. Witesman All rights reserved. Previously published as Tuulen puolella by Tammi Publishers, Finland, in 1998.

Translated from Finnish by Owen F. Witesman and first published in English by AmazonCrossing in 2016. Published by AmazonCrossing, Seattle www.apub.com Amazon, the Amazon logo, and AmazonCrossing are trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc., or its affiliates. ISBN-13: 9781503936485 ISBN-10: 1503936481 OceanofPDF.com Cover design by Scott Barrie OceanofPDF.com CONTENTS CAST OF CHARACTERS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 ABOUT THE AUTHOR ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR OceanofPDF.com CAST OF CHARACTERS THE COPS Maria Kallio …………

Commander, Espoo Violent Crime Unit Jyrki Taskinen ………… Director, Espoo Criminal Division Pekka Koivu ………… VCU detective Lähde ………… VCU detective Juhani Palo ………… VCU detective (deceased) Ville Puupponen ………… VCU detective Petri Puutsjärvi ………… VCU detective Pertti Ström ………… VCU detective Akkila ………… Patrol officer Haikala ………… Patrol officer Hannula ………… Patrol sergeant Raitio ………… Patrol officer (boat patrol) Liisa Rasilainen ………… Patrol officer Yliaho ………… Patrol officer Hannu Hirvonen …………

Forensic technician Hakkarainen ………… Forensic technician Niinimaa ………… Forensic chemist Laine ………… Commander, Organized Crime Unit Kantelinen ………… White-Collar Crime detective Jormanainen ………… Agent, Security Intelligence Service THE M ERI VAARA/S J Ö BERG CLAN Juha Merivaara ………… CEO, Merivaara Nautical Anne Merivaara ………… Communications Director, Merivaara Nautical Riikka Merivaara ………… Juha and Anne Merivaara’s daughter Jiri Merivaara ………… Juha and Anne Merivaara’s son Katrina Sjöberg …………

Mikke’s mother, Juha’s stepmother Mikael (Mikke) Sjöberg ………… Katrina’s son, Juha’s half brother Martti Merivaara ………… Juha and Mikke’s father, Katrina’s ex-husband Mikael Sjöberg/Merivaara ………… Founder, Merivaara Nautical, Martti’s father SUPPORTING CAST Antti Sarkela ………… Maria’s husband Iida ………… Maria’s daughter Einstein ………… Maria and Antti’s cat Marcus Enckell ………… Board member, Merivaara Nautical Tuomo Haaranen ………… Attempted rapist Heikki Halonen ………… CFO, Merivaara Nautical Tapio Holma ………… Riikka’s boyfriend, opera singer Harri Immonen …………

Ornithologist, Maria’s ex-boyfriend Kaarela ………… Plant Manager, Malinen Meats Imants Peders ………… Mare Nostrum shareholder Vitalis Ramanauskas ………… Mare Nostrum shareholder Seija Saarela ………… Merivaara family friend Paula Saarnio ………… Administrative assistant, Merivaara Nautical Ari Väätäinen ………… Wife beater OceanofPDF.com 1 The island that rose out of the sea burned red, as if the ground were covered in blood. At first I could see only its silhouette, but gradually the smooth slopes of the ruddy granite cliffs along the shore began to take shape.

A round lighthouse and fortress left over from the Crimean War emerged above them. Rödskär Island was the southernmost point in Espoo, the last major piece of land before the boundary of Finland’s territorial waters.

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