📱 eBook en inglés THE BURNING STONES

A top saleswoman at a Finnish sauna company must outwit the police and a murderer when her boss is found dead … in a sauna. A darkly funny, tense new thriller from The funniest writer in Europe´ (The Times)

`The best comic crime novel youll read this year´ Abir Mukherjee

`Suspense is uppermost in this adroit mix of psychological thriller, whodunnit and middle-aged rom-com. Comedy is still pervasive … the novels glorious gallery of weirdos´ Sunday Times Book of the Month

`Finnish author Tuomainen has a talent for creating offbeat characters … [a] tense, pacy novel, laced with the authors trademark laconic humour´ Guardian Book of the Month

`It may seem hard to find good comic crime-writers, but clearly we havent been looking in Finland … simultaneously thrilling and evocative of the mundanity of life, and also very funny indeed´ Telegraph

**Antti Tuomainens Little Siberia is NOW a major NETFLIX movie**

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Love, murder, middle age, and a sauna to die for…

A cold-blooded killer strikes at the hottest moment: the new head of a sauna-stove company is murdered … in the sauna. Who has turned up the temperature and burned him to death?

The evidence points in the direction of Anni Korpinen – top salesperson and the victims successor at Steam Devil.

And as if hitting middle-age, being in a marriage that has lost its purpose, and struggling with work werent enough, Anni realizes that she must be quicker than both the police and the murderer to uncover who is behind it all – before its too late…

From the international bestselling author of Little Siberia and The Rabbit Factor, comes a darkly funny, delightfully tense new thriller that showcases humanity at its most bare – in middle age, suspected of murder and, of course, in a sauna…

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`Showcases Anttis trademark deadpan humour and crime plots focused on intriguingly quirky individuals. An utter delight´ Vaseem Khan

`Just what you want from Antti Tuomainen, the brilliant moulding of apparent mundanity into a which-way-now thrill ride, with humour drier than a desert snakes belly Ian Moore

`The funniest writer in Europe´ The Times

`Hilarious, beautifully penned and startlingly inventive. No other writer can come up with more ways to kill you in a sauna, and The Burning Stones cements Tuomainens position as the king of the humorous crime caper´ Abir Mukherjee

`Laconic, thrilling and warmly human – hugely enjoyable´ Christopher Brookmyre

`Antti turns the heat up with this wryly comic thriller. Youll sweat along with the characters!´ Douglas Skelton

`You dont expect to laugh when youre reading about terrible crimes, but thats what youll do when you pick up one of Tuomainens decidedly quirky thrillers´ New York Times

`Finlands greatest export´ M.J. Arlidge

`A refreshing change from the decidedly gloomier crime fiction for which Scandinavia is known´ Publishers Weekly

`Right up there with the best´ Times Literary Supplement

Praise for Antti Tuomainen

`Delightfully funny´ Guardian

`Deftly plotted, poignant and perceptive in its wry reflections on mortality and very funny´ Irish T...