Vares, Private Eye

The family of a young girl who was found stabbed in the pring hire him to investigate her unsolved death. Vares feels slightly suspicious of the fact that the mother of the slain girl is the sister of his lover, Laila. As he delves into the case of the murdered girl, he soon realizes that the culprit must have been a close acquaintance of hers or, at least, someone with a personal motive.

Vares gets hired by a friend at a newspaper to investigate a 15 year old mystery regarding the disappearance of three girls

A lawyer hires Vares to keep tabs on his wife, whom he suspects is having an affair with a lounge pianist. The simple case turns into something complex, however, when the sleuth learns that the pianist is involved in the seedy worlds of porn and drugs.

A dismissed pastor hires Vares to investigate after he stumbles upon the body of a young woman. The case takes the private detective to a small village that's home to a bevy of eccentric characters.

Jussi Vares falls in love with a beautiful brunette – only to lose her in a horrible way. After dating Sole a few weeks, her body is found in a bird-watching tower. In the end the clues lead to a familiar person and more death in unavoidable. The noose tightens; Vares solves the con of the century.

The body of a young woman whose heart has been ripped out of her chest is found in the region of Ostrobothnia. The finder of the body, a dismissed pastor named Hukkanen, hires Jussi Vares to investigate the crime. This launches the strangest case in Vares’s career. He travels to Kahdenvirranmaa (Land of Two Rivers), a small, languishing village gripped by a powerful sect.