From the Book Elf

  Trouble by Katja Ivar Another investigation for headstrong  Finnish detective Hella Mauzer Trouble by Katja Ivar was  published on 19th January 2023 by Bitter Lemon Press. My thanks to the author and publisher who sent me a copy and Random Book Tours for inviting me to take part on the tour. Trouble  is the third in the series featuring Hella Mauzer to follow on the success from Evil Things and Deep as Death .            Synopsis Helsinki, June 1953, at the heart of the Cold War. Hella, now a reluctant private investigator, has been asked by her former boss at the Helsinki murder quad to do a background check on a member of the Finnish secret services. Not the type of job Hella was hoping for, but she accepts it on the condition that she is given access to the files concerning the roadside death of their father in 1942, at a time when Finland joined forces with Nazi Germany in its attack against the Soviet Union. German troops were sent to Finland, the Gestapo arrived in Helsinki an