Henkireikä

Hoping a new hobby will take his mind off his work, a detective chief superintendent joins a mixed choir. It does not turn out that way. Singing in the same choir are a church verger and a hairdresser, both haunted by money trouble and love that has cooled, and tied to each other by a tangle of dark secrets. Against his will the policeman finds common ground with them, and the three are drawn into a whirl that takes their reason. The novel asks what a man does who has never done anything, and what happens when someone crosses the line: a darkly comic, painful story about the work of love and hate and the anatomy of a crime that is planned more than carried out.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

199 pages in the original

Genres

Crime, Love (assigned by AI)

First published

2015 by Siltala

Author's age

58 when first published

ISBN

9789522343161 (original)