The Healer

It's two days before Christmas and Helsinki is battling ruthless climate catastrophe: subway tunnels are flooded; the streets are full of abandoned vehicles; the social order is crumbling and private security firms have undermined the police force. Tapani Lehtinen, a struggling poet, is among the few still willing to live in the city. When Tapani's journalist wife Johanna goes missing, he embarks on a frantic hunt for her. Johanna's disappearance seems to be connected to a story she was researching about a serial killer known as 'The Healer'. Determined to find Johanna, Tapani's search leads him to uncover secrets from her past: secrets that connect her to the very murders she was investigating...

About the author

Antti Tuomainen

Summary

It's two days before Christmas and Helsinki is battling ruthless climate catastrophe: subway tunnels are flooded; Determined to find Johanna, Tapani's search leads him to uncover secrets from her past: secrets that connect her to the very murders she was investigating...

Report

Tersely written, full of twists and sudden violence, this is nothing less than the birth of a new genre: dystopian detection Sunday Telegraph

Product details

• Authors: Antti Tuimainen, Antti Tuomainen
• Assisted by: Lola Rogers (Translation)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.02.2014
• EAN: 9780099569572
• ISBN: 978-0-09-956957-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 16 mm
• Series: VINTAGE BOOKS
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Fiction > Suspense > Crime fiction, thrillers, espionage; Finnische SchriftstellerInnen; Werke (div.)