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The Redacted Names: A Nordic Noir Thriller of Corruption, Silence, and the Names Hidden in Plain Sight
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 27 2026
Pages: 148
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.37 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The journalist vanished before she published.
She left behind only a wall of redacted documents.
When Detective Daniel Berg is sent from Stockholm to assist Finland's National Bureau of Investigation, he expects another missing-person case.
Instead, he walks into an apartment where every wall is covered with evidence connected by red string-but every name has been carefully blacked out. The investigation centers on journalist Marta Lund, who uncovered suspicious municipal contracts, disappearing companies, and millions of euros routed through shell corporations before vanishing without a trace.
Partnered with Detective Sergeant Aino Korhonen, Berg follows a trail through Helsinki's frozen streets, abandoned warehouses, encrypted phones, frightened witnesses, and a corruption network stretching from Finland to Estonia and Sweden. Every answer uncovers another layer of deception, and every official document seems designed to hide the one name that matters.
As political figures, corporate middlemen, and organized criminals quietly close ranks, Berg realizes Marta's disappearance is only one part of a much larger conspiracy. Someone has spent years building a system where evidence disappears, records are altered, and honest people become liabilities.
Now the final witness is running out of time.
And the last name hidden beneath the black marker could destroy everything.
The Redacted Names is an atmospheric Nordic Noir thriller about institutional corruption, investigative journalism, loyalty, and the devastating cost of exposing powerful people who believe they are untouchable.
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