The Healer
Antti Tuomainen author Lola Rogers translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:6th Feb '14
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
In this chilling dystopian detective story, a man searches for his missing wife in a Helsinki devastated by ruthless climate change, and finds himself on the trail of a serial killer
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...
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...
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 *
ISBN: 9780099569572
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 16mm
Weight: 181g
256 pages