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...
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Antti Tuomainen, nascut a Finlàndia el 1971, era un publicista de renom abans de començar la seva carrera literària el 2007 com a autor de novel·les de suspens. El 2011, amb El Guaridor, va guanyar el premi Clue a la millor novel·la negra finlandesa. I així va néixer una estrella en el gènere. El Guaridor és, segons la premsa finesa, la novel·la més addictiva de l'any. Antti Tuomainen viu a Hèlsinki.