Winner in the \"Best Thriller 2022\" category by LitRes.
There is no such island on any map. But it’s inhabited… On the coast of the White Sea, a mutilated body of a young woman is found. It seems the unknown killer has surpassed all maniacs in cruelty: breasts cut out, genital area sewn shut, and three fingers missing from the legs—clearly a genetic deformity. In addition, her hips and arms are covered with incomprehensible letters, resembling the marks left with a knife on tree bark…
Investigator Simo Ilves believes this is a ritual murder. And it could have been carried out on the nearby island of Amaya the Siren—where no civilized human had ever been before. A mixed team is sent to the supposed lair to unravel the mystery of the girl’s death: an investigator, an operative, a crime scene expert, a scholar in religious studies, and a pathologist.
The shore greeted them with ominous silence. But in the very next second, the moment they set foot on alien ground, they realized they had entered a completely unfamiliar—and clearly hostile—world. A world where death isn’t the worst evil…
A novel in which a real monster is hiding, born from familiar words and a terrible atmosphere. Having survived such a nightmare once, a person will return to it again and again in their thoughts—where their feverish mind keeps searching for a way out.