THE WINTER JOB

A desperate father s 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 WINNER OF THE CWA CRIME IN TRANSLATION DAGGER 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 With echoes of writers such as Christopher Brookmyre and Carl Hiassen this is delicious stuff expertly juggling dark humour and quirky characterisation against the backdrop of a frigid northern landscape Financial Times A quirky murderous road trip Imagine blending a Donald Westlake comic mishap caper with some famous Nordic levity and you might have something like The Winter Job Irish TimesThe NEW standalone darkly funny poignant and uber tense thriller from The funniest writer in Europe The TimesFargo meets Carl Hiassen and Fredrik Backman via the Coen Brothers Sofas secrets and a snowbound road to trouble Helsinki 1982 Recently divorced postal worker Ilmari Nieminen has promised his daught