The winter job

Sobre el libro The winter job de Antti Tuomainen publicado por Simon and Sch UK al 2026:

A desperate fathers 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 Jobflies at kilometres an hour straight into the darkest heart of a Finnish winter night.Another wonderfully lean slice of European noir by one of its finest exponents. As darkly fun as any Coen brothers offeringVaseem KhanThe king of the humorous crime caperAbir MukherjeeIt may seem hard to find good comic crime-writers, but clearly we havent been looking in FinlandTelegraphThe NEW standalone darkly funny, poignant and uber-tense thriller from The funniest writer in Europe The TimesFargomeets Carl Hiassen and Fredrik Backman via the Coen Brothers____Sofas, secrets and a snowbound road to troubleHelsinki, . Recently divorced postal worker Ilmari Nieminen has promised his daughter a piano for Christmas, but with six days to go and no money hes desperate.A last-minute job offers a solution: transport a valuable antique sofa to Kilpisjärvi, the northernmost town in Finland.With the sofa secured in the back of his van, Ilmari stops at a gas station, and an old friend turns up, offering to fix his faulty wipers, on the condition that he tags along. Soon after, a persistent Saab appears in the rearview mirror. And then a bright-yellow Lada.Thats when Ilmari realises that he is transporting something truly special.And thats when Ilmari realises he might be in serious troubleA darkly funny and unexpectedly moving thriller about friendship, love and death The Winter Jobtears through the frozen landscape of northern Finland in a beat-up van with bad steering, worse timing, and everything to lose.