- Paperback: 352 pages
- Publisher: Arcadia Books; paperback / softback edition (28 Aug 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1905147759
- ISBN-13: 978-1905147755
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 455,779 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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After a strange succession of deaths at Helsinki tube stations, the police are baffled: no one has seen anything and the tapes from the CCTV show nothing. Detective Sergeant Timo Harjunpaa of the Helsinki Violent Crimes Unit has seen more than enough of the seamier side of human nature in his career, but the forces of evil have never before crossed his path in such an overwhelming fashion. It emerges that his adversary is a deluded but dangerous character living in an underground bunker in the middle of an uninhabited Helsinki hillside. Detective Sergeant Harjunpaa must now face his most terrifying case yet.
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Someone called out his name; rapidly, over and over, as if they were thrashing him over the head with a twig. Read the first page
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Policeman novelist Matti Yrjänä Joensuu is a Finn with a vision. In this book, he develops a peculiar mish-mash of new age religion, serial killings, deeply troubled adults and their disturbed relationships with appallingly cold and twisted parents, bullied children and their close friendships, mind control, and beneath it all, such aching sadness that it is not surprising Finland has one of the highest suicide rates in the world. A couple of fundamentalist preachers are accosting passersby at various Metro stops in Helsinki, and there appears to be a correlation between them and people falling onto the tracks. Were they pushed? Are they suicidal? The CCTVs show nothing suspicious. The investigating policeman is that rare bird in detective fiction - a man truly content in his marriage and with his little girls. Separate strands of the tale deal with a shaman who invokes an earth goddess and bleeds birds to death for his sacrifices, and a boy who strikes up a friendship with a girl who saves him from bullies. The boy's mother is a virulently manipulative shrew, and his father is - like Joensuu - a man isolated from his colleagues because of his side career as a successful novelist. It's obvious from the get-go who the killer is, but the goodness in the book is in the chase and in the details of a hidden Helsinki, and Joensuu's fervent belief that the police, with a ringside view on society, is the front line in sensing evil in all its forms.
8 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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Unusually the detective doesn't get his man - well not how you might think, anyway. The characterisation is gripping, but you need to concentrate and keep your wits about you. Can't wait for the next one.
3 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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I bought this book attracted by the comments about its originality, but I was very disappointed. The story never really becomes gripping; the characters have no real depth; the writing is nondescript. And I can't see what's original about it. If you like psychological thrillers (as I do), or action and suspense filled thrillers (as my husband, who didn't even want to finish the book, does), this is not the book for you.
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