Goodreads Blurb
In the midst of the freezing Arctic winter, seventeen-year-old Lumikki Andersson walks into her school’s dark room and finds a stash of wet, crimson-colored money. Thousands of Euros left to dry—splattered with someone’s blood.
Lumikki lives alone in a studio apartment far from her parents and the past she left behind. She transferred into a prestigious art school, and she’s singularly focused on studying and graduating. Lumikki ignores the cliques, the gossip, and the parties held by the school’s most popular and beautiful boys and girls.
But finding the blood-stained money changes everything. Suddenly, Lumikki is swept into a whirlpool of events as she finds herself helping to trace the origins of the money. Events turn even more deadly when evidence points to dirty cops and a notorious drug kingpin best known for the brutality with which he runs his business.
As Lumikki loses control of her carefully constructed world, she discovers that she’s been blind to the forces swirling around her—and she’s running out of time to set them right. When she sees the stark red of blood on snow, it may be too late to save her friends or herself.
My Review: Rated 5 out of 5 stars
This was a thriller, crime novel, and fairy tale all in one. Lumikki was a teenager who was constantly bullied by two classmates. She started to learn how to fight and was able to use scents, noise, and movements in order to hide from her perpetrators. I was shocked at the things she went through and how easy just changing her walk would make others not realize her. At times, she was like a ghost not seen but very much there. I enjoy the fairy tale of Snow White that was throughout the book. Was happy that she fought hard and was over to live. Can’t wait to see what the next book brings. She got herself involved in a crime that was committed, and she was the undercover detective that with smarts, strength, and will was able to figure out the whole scheme.
Author Biography
Salla Simukka is Finnish writer and translator who lives in Tampere. She has studied Nordic philology, Finnish language, general literature, creative writing and women’s studies at the University of Turku.
Besides books, Simukka writes book reviews for the newspapers Helsinkin Sanomat and Hämeen Sanomat.
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