Pauliina Susi

Pauliina Susi (born 1968) is a versatile writer who has published numerous crime novels and a nonfiction book about private detectives. She has a master’s degree in political science and has worked as a journalist for several Finnish publications.

Readers and critics have fallen in love with her Tuulia Raja cozy-crime series, which combines sparkling writing with tangled human relationships and gripping murder mysteries. When the lively and happy-go-lucky forty-year-old flight attendant Tuulia finds herself unemployed, she works as a private investigator for an unsavory old guy named Yrjö Rahkonen.

The crimes are solved, and the story skims along in a way that has reminded many readers of the 1980s Cybill Shepherd / Bruce Willis TV series Moonlighting.

The books are set in the small town of Järvenpää in southern Finland, where the author herself has lived.

Rear Window, the first book in Pauliina Susi’s earlier Leia Laine thriller trilogy, won the Finnish Whodunnit Society’s prize for best Finnish crime novel of the year—and sent many readers checking to see if their data was as secure as they’d thought it was…