Discover the asocial world of Shark
Aliisa Tuulikki Ykspetäjä. It’s a mouthful to non-Finns, so it’s helpful everybody knows her as Shark. Thirty-two, one-handed, Finnish, emotionally deplete with a social circle of one. But don’t let that put you off. As a Detective Chief Inspector at Greater Bradford CID, she gets through her cases, her expertise in missing children and murder is second to none. Some would say she’s murder to work with.
Beefy plants his size twelves on the extensive black desk.
‘Why anyone would choose to live out in the sticks, I’ll never know.’
I cough.
‘Yes, Shark, but living out on the bare moors probably reminds you of the empty wastelands of Finland, and you’re certifiably antisocial anyway.’
He means asocial. We asocials get this all the time. We don’t bite, bark at full moons, attack people or eat them. Not often anyway.
The investigations are set in and around West Yorkshire, England, and southern Finland.
Shark - The Prequel
Aliisa Tuulikki Ykspetäjä sits before the bulk of Superintendent Chris Braithwaite, her would-be boss at Greater Bradford CID, with hopes of being selected for the position of Detective Chief Inspector. It’s a test of her abilities, to showcase her unique investigative savvy while craftily distracting the big man from her significant interpersonal inadequacies.
Shark - the detective series
Sabine
While heavy snow blankets the county of West Yorkshire, Detective Chief Inspector Aliisa Tuulikki Ykspetäjä is tasked with investigating the disappearance of Sabine, the daughter of a celebrated architect couple, Stephanie and Maximilian Moller. Is it just another routine teenage runaway, or something more? Can the asocial Shark navigate the unholy subtleties of human nature to bring Sabine home? To make matters worse for her, the Mollers have contacts in high places, most notably the Chief Superintendent of Greater Bradford Police. Can she survive the pressure from above to resolve the case ASAP? Meanwhile, the citizens of Bradford are unsettled by a murder of a rather dark and disturbing kind.
Silent John
In the early hours of the morning, a van is driven at speed into a police road block. Who is the driver? Where is he from? Was he intent on suicide? What had he been up to? Shark has the case, but also an inexperienced partner she doesn’t want, an uncooperative neighbouring jurisdiction, and a suspect who refuses to speak. Also, a secret in her past that must remain secret. And Bradford is in the grip of a deranged serial killer.
Chilled Waters
Shark is in an alcoholic haze as Finnair flight AY1338 kisses the Helsinki-Vantaa runway, her mind on the past, dreading this return to her homeland. Uncovering family secrets and finding her real mother might be the most troubling case of her life. Meanwhile, suspicions are growing over what happened to Sadman, and unfriendly eyes in Bradford are focusing on her.
The House on the Hill
It seems so simple. A woman found dead on the moors. Is it an innocent accident, or something more murderous? Nothing is ever simple in Shark’s world.
The house is creepy, the people not what they seem, and she’s investigating in what would have been out of her jurisdiction, but she’s free of boundaries and free for work.
But files from an old acquaintance outlining a distinctly familiar and ugly series of murders is luring Shark back to her homeland.
Salo
Salo is where the Samaritans go to commit suicide. Shark should know, it’s where she’s from.
She’s returned because a series of gruesome, Nail-in-the-Neck style copycat killings are beginning to appear across southern Finland.
Shark is invited to make up an unlikely alliance to investigate and stop the murders.
Unfortunately, her re-appearance in Salo opens the eyes of a certain superintendent who believes she’s behind a suspicious death during her previous visit to the city.
All Good Things
There’s no such thing as the perfect murder. That’s what they say.
The search intensifies for the missing detective, the net closing in on the killer, no resources being spared – including Shark’s. But she’s damned if she takes on the case, damned if she doesn’t. Her record is impeccable and she doesn’t want to spoil it.
And while one detective is determined her suspicions will be proved correct, the other is determined to keep out of her clutches.
It’s the end for one of them.
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