The Winter Job
The darkly funny, touching new thriller from the author of the Netflix hit LITTLE SIBERIA A desperate fatherâs Christmas promise sparks a wild Finnish road trip involving an antique sofa, unexpected passengers and danger âŠÂ 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. 'Another wonderfully lean slice of European noir by one of its finest exponents. As darkly fun as any Coen brothers' offering' Vaseem Khan âThe king of the humorous crime caperâ Abir Mukherjee 'It may seem hard to find good comic crime-writers, but clearly we havenât been looking in Finland' Telegraph The NEW standalone darkly funny, poignant and uber-tense thriller from âThe funniest writer in Europeâ (The Times) Fargo 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 daughter a piano for Christmas, but with six days to go â and no money â heâs desperate. A last-minute job offers a solution: transport a valuable antique sofa to KilpisjĂ€rvi, 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 96 appears in the rearview mirror. And then a bright-yellow Lada. Thatâs when Ilmari realises that he is transporting something truly special. And thatâs when Ilmari realises he might be in serious trouble⊠A darkly funny and unexpectedly moving thriller about friendship, love and death â The Winter Job tears through the frozen landscape of northern Finland in a beat-up van with bad steering, worse timing, and everything to lose⊠________ Praise for Antti Tuomainen âHumour drier than a desert snakeâs bellyâ Ian Moore âYou donât expect to laugh when youâre reading about terrible crimes, but thatâs what youâll do when you pick up one of Tuomainenâs decidedly quirky thrillersâ New York Times 'Deftly plotted, poignant and perceptive in its wry reflections ⊠and very funny' Irish Times  âRight up there with the bestâ Times Literary Supplement âCharming, funny and cleverâ Literary Review
A darkly humorous and warmly touching suspense novel about friendship, love and death, The Winter Job flies a hundred and twenty kilometres an hour straight into the darkest heart of a Finnish winter night.
âLaconic, thrilling and warmly humanâ Christopher Brookmyre
âFinland's greatest exportâ M.J. Arlidge
âA refreshing change from the decidedly gloomier crime fiction for which Scandinavia is knownâ Publishers Weekly
âFresh and wittyâ Chris Ewan
âThrilling and hilariousâ Liz Nugent
âA delight from start to finishâ Big Issue
'Tuomainen has a talent for creating offbeat characters that you canât help rooting for'Â Guardian
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The darkly funny, touching new thriller from the author of the Netflix hit LITTLE SIBERIA A desperate fatherâs Christmas promise sparks a wild Finnish road trip involving an antique sofa, unexpected passengers and danger âŠÂ 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. 'Another wonderfully lean slice of European noir by one of its finest exponents. As darkly fun as any Coen brothers' offering' Vaseem Khan âThe king of the humorous crime caperâ Abir Mukherjee 'It may seem hard to find good comic crime-writers, but clearly we havenât been looking in Finland' Telegraph The NEW standalone darkly funny, poignant and uber-tense thriller from âThe funniest writer in Europeâ (The Times) Fargo 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 daughter a piano for Christmas, but with six days to go â and no money â heâs desperate. A last-minute job offers a solution: transport a valuable antique sofa to KilpisjĂ€rvi, 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 96 appears in the rearview mirror. And then a bright-yellow Lada. Thatâs when Ilmari realises that he is transporting something truly special. And thatâs when Ilmari realises he might be in serious trouble⊠A darkly funny and unexpectedly moving thriller about friendship, love and death â The Winter Job tears through the frozen landscape of northern Finland in a beat-up van with bad steering, worse timing, and everything to lose⊠________ Praise for Antti Tuomainen âHumour drier than a desert snakeâs bellyâ Ian Moore âYou donât expect to laugh when youâre reading about terrible crimes, but thatâs what youâll do when you pick up one of Tuomainenâs decidedly quirky thrillersâ New York Times 'Deftly plotted, poignant and perceptive in its wry reflections ⊠and very funny' Irish Times  âRight up there with the bestâ Times Literary Supplement âCharming, funny and cleverâ Literary Review
A darkly humorous and warmly touching suspense novel about friendship, love and death, The Winter Job flies a hundred and twenty kilometres an hour straight into the darkest heart of a Finnish winter night.
âLaconic, thrilling and warmly humanâ Christopher Brookmyre
âFinland's greatest exportâ M.J. Arlidge
âA refreshing change from the decidedly gloomier crime fiction for which Scandinavia is knownâ Publishers Weekly
âFresh and wittyâ Chris Ewan
âThrilling and hilariousâ Liz Nugent
âA delight from start to finishâ Big Issue
'Tuomainen has a talent for creating offbeat characters that you canât help rooting for'Â Guardian
