📱 eBook en inglés THE WINTER JOB

A desperate fathers Christmas promise sparks a wild Finnish road trip involving an antique sofa, unexpected passengers and danger … A darkly humorous and warmly touching suspense novel about friendship, love and death, The Winter Job flies at 120 kilometres an hour straight into the darkest heart of a Finnish winter night.

`Another wonderfully lean slice of European noir by one of its finest exponents. As darkly fun as any Coen brothers offering´ Vaseem Khan

`The king of the humorous crime caper´ Abir Mukherjee

`It may seem hard to find good comic crime-writers, but clearly we havent been looking in Finland´ Telegraph

The NEW standalone darkly funny, poignant and uber-tense thriller from The funniest writer in Europe (The Times)

Fargo meets Carl Hiassen and Fredrik Backman … via the Coen Brothers

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Sofas, secrets and a snowbound road to trouble…

Helsinki, 1982. Recently divorced postal worker Ilmari Nieminen has promised his daughter a piano for Christmas, but with six days to go – and no money – hes desperate.

A last-minute job offers a solution: transport a valuable antique sofa to Kilpisjärvi, the northernmost town in Finland.

With the sofa secured in the back of his van, Ilmari stops at a gas station, and an old friend turns up, offering to fix his faulty wipers, on the condition that he tags along. Soon after, a persistent Saab 96 appears in the rearview mirror. And then a bright-yellow Lada.

Thats when Ilmari realises that he is transporting something truly special.

And thats when Ilmari realises he might be in serious trouble…

A darkly funny and unexpectedly moving thriller about friendship, love and death – The Winter Job tears through the frozen landscape of northern Finland in a beat-up van with bad steering, worse timing, and everything to lose…

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Praise for Antti Tuomainen

`Humour drier than a desert snakes belly´ Ian Moore

`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

`Deftly plotted, poignant and perceptive in its wry reflections … and very funny´ Irish Times

`Laconic, thrilling and warmly human´ Christopher Brookmyre

`Right up there with the best´ Times Literary Supplement

`Finlands greatest export´ M.J. Arlidge

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

`Fresh and witty´ Chris Ewan

`Charming, funny and clever´ Literary Review

`Thrilling and hilarious´ Liz Nugent

`A delight from start to finish´ Big Issue

`Tuomainen has a talent for creating offbeat characters that you cant help rooting for´ Guardian