Maria Lamont

Villosh is a small-time Russian gambler hiding from the KGB in a dreary perogie factory in Winnipeg. He dreams of rolling the dice in Atlantic City - but he needs a lot of money to make the move. So he concocts a scheme to kidnap a Finnish hockey star that steadily goes awry.

Professor Jasper Tempest, a genius Cambridge University criminologist with OCD and an overbearing mother, advises the police. British version of the Belgian crime drama of the same name.