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<\/i>)<\/b><\/p>\n
‘The best comic crime novel you’ll read this year’\u00c2\u00a0Abir Mukherjee<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n
‘Showcases Antti’s trademark deadpan humour and crime plots focused on intriguingly quirky individuals. An utter delight’\u00c2\u00a0Vaseem Khan<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n
‘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 snake’s belly’\u00c2\u00a0Ian Moore<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n
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Saunas, love and a ladleful of murder?<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n
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?<\/b><\/p>\n
The evidence points in the direction of Anni Korpinen – top salesperson and the victim’s successor at Steam Devil.<\/b><\/p>\n
And as if hitting middle-age, being in a marriage that has lost its purpose, and struggling with work weren’t enough, Anni realizes that she must be quicker than both the police and the murderer to uncover who is behind it all – before it’s too late?<\/b><\/p>\n
From the international bestselling author of\u00c2\u00a0The Man Who Died<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0and\u00c2\u00a0The Rabbit Factor<\/i>, 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?<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n
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‘The funniest writer in Europe’\u00c2\u00a0The Times<\/i><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n
‘Hilarious, beautifully penned and startlingly inventive. No other writer can come up with more ways to kill you in a sauna, and\u00c2\u00a0The Burning Stones<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0cements Tuomainen’s position as the king of the humorous crime caper’\u00c2\u00a0Abir Mukherjee<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n
‘Laconic, thrilling and warmly human – hugely enjoyable’\u00c2\u00a0Christopher Brookmyre<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n
‘Antti turns the heat up with this wryly comic thriller. You’ll sweat along with the characters!’\u00c2\u00a0Douglas Skelton<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n
‘You don’t expect to laugh when you’re reading about terrible crimes, but that’s what you’ll do when you pick up one of Tuomainen’s decidedly quirky thrillers’\u00c2\u00a0New York Times<\/i><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n
‘Finland’s greatest export’\u00c2\u00a0M.J. Arlidge<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n
‘A refreshing change from the decidedly gloomier crime fiction for which Scandinavia is known’\u00c2\u00a0Publishers Weekly<\/i><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n
‘Right up there with the best’\u00c2\u00a0Times Literary Supplement<\/i><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n
Praise for Antti Tuomainen<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n
‘Delightfully funny’\u00c2\u00a0Guardian<\/i><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n
‘Deftly plotted, poignant and perceptive in its wry reflections on mortality and very funny’\u00c2\u00a0Irish Times<\/i><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n
‘Fresh and witty’\u00c2\u00a0Chris Ewan<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n
‘A thrilling and hilarious read’\u00c2\u00a0Liz Nugent<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n
‘Charming, funny and clever’\u00c2\u00a0Literary Review<\/i><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n
‘A delight from start to finish’\u00c2\u00a0Big Issue<\/i><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n
‘Original and brilliant story-telling’\u00c2\u00a0Helen FitzGerald<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n
‘Finnish criminal chucklemeister Tuomainen is channelling Carl Hiassen’\u00c2\u00a0Sunday Times<\/i><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n
‘A thriller with black comedy worth of Nabokov’\u00c2\u00a0Telegraph<\/i><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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