Dark As My Heart

Antti Tuomainen author Lola Rogers translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:6th Oct '16

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

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A Hitchcockian psychological thriller from Finland's top crime writer, about a son's search for the truth about his mother's disappearance

From Finland's top crime-writer, the prize-winning author of The Healer

Aleksi lost his mother on a rainy October day when he was 13 years old.

From Finland's top crime-writer, the prize-winning author of The Healer

Aleksi lost his mother on a rainy October day when he was 13 years old. 20 years later, he is certain that he knows who's responsible. Everything points to millionaire Henrik Saarinen. The police don't agree. Aleksi has only one option: to get close to Henrik Saarinen and find out the truth about his mother's fate on his own. But as Aleksi soon discovers, delving into Saarinen and his beautiful daughter’s family secrets is a confusing and dangerous enterprise.

Dark As My Heart tells the story of a mother and son and the search for justice. It's a story about the cost of obsessions, the price of vengeance and the power of love. Set against a vividly conjured bleak and beautiful Finnish landscape, Dark As My Heart is both a Hitchcockian mystery tale and a modern Greek tragedy.

Dark As My Heart, the most lauded Finnish crime novel of recent years, lives up to its acclaim -- Marcel Berlins * The Times *
A dark and thrilling book with unexpected twists. * Weltexpres (Germany) *
The king of Helsinki Noir... The novel soon brings James Ellroy to mind, more specifically the brilliant My Dark Places, where Ellroy tries to make sense of his murdered mother's fate * Aamulehti (Finland) *

Here is an international crime sensation, a wordsmith who delivers macabre details and close observations in a clear-cut and poetic voice. A dense crime mystery.

* Dagsavisen (Norway) *
Within the framework of an intricate plot sure to delight every puzzle loving crime enthusiast, unfolds a sensitive and multi-layered story * Aftenposten (Norway *

  • Short-listed for The Petrona Award for the Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year 2016 (UK)

ISBN: 9780099593577

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 20mm

Weight: 224g

320 pages