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The Healer

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099569572

  • Length: 256  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 16mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 181g

  • RRP: £12.99

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...

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099569572

  • Length: 256  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 16mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 181g

  • RRP: £12.99

Reviews

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

    Sunday Telegraph

  • Thrillingly atmospheric

    Liz Jensen

  • This chilling novel compels…clever, atmospheric and wonderfully imaginative

    Sunday Mirror

  • Tuomainen's book is set in the near future, but nothing here is less than frighteningly plausible...a compelling crime story

    Barry Forshaw, Independent

  • I implore you to read one more Scandinavian thriller. Antti Tuomainen's The Healer is a mix between Stieg Larsson and an introduction to Cormac McCarthy's The Road

    Patrick Neale, Booksellers' Choice

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About the Author

Antti Tuomainen

Antti Tuomainen was born in Finland in 1971 and lives in Helsinki. His novel The Healer was awarded the Clue Award for Best Finnish Crime Novel. Bestselling author Sofi Oksanen has said of Tuomainen’s work: ‘The ability to use all the tricks of crime fiction and all the tools of poetry makes Tuomainen's work unique.'

Antti Tuomainen

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