Ice Wind of Suomi

It's no wonder that the cashier of a major bank, a native of Finland Rauhtapya, took advantage of such a convenient opportunity. The Finnish border is just a stone's throw away. And there, in Helsinki, swept by icy winds, the Russian police are powerless. The local law enforcement officials, for whom the orders of the imperial authorities are mere noise, are in charge. Using forged documents, Mr. Rauhtapya embezzled almost three hundred thousand rubles and vanished...
On one day in August 1913, State Councilor Lykov sets off for the cold and rainy Finnish capital. The order is to find, catch, and return the thief along with the money. But the search for the criminal quickly reached an impasse. The cashier was found murdered, and the stolen money disappeared without a trace. 
Only one small and nearly hopeless lead remained: a strange note lay beside the body, which shattered all of Lykov's previous theories and turned the case from a criminal one into a political one...

An exciting historical detective novel by the winner of the “Russian Detective” award Nikolai Swechin. The novel is part of a series about the detective Alexei Lykov and is the 35th in the series.