Crime Novel

By: Petri Tamminen

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Synopsis: A mysterious criminal upends lives across Helsinki through a string of deviously absurd pranks in this Finnish comic noir novella. The winter dark of Helsinki is even more chilling thanks to Hermann Ångström, who subjects his unsuspecting victims to a series of unbearable embarrassments. Ångström leaves a young bride at the altar, disguises himself as a doctor and delivers false medical reports, sends a government official into a downward spiral of depression—it&’s a veritable plague of shame. As Ångström&’s methods grow ever more cunning, his true identity remains as mysterious as his motive. The case is assigned to Commissioner Vehmas, a widower who believes that the future is an illness and that police work is folk poetry. And though he&’s seen it all, even Vehmas can&’t seem to track down Ångström. Until serendipity steps in. At once suspenseful and blackly comic, Crime Novel is a playful twist on Nordic crime fiction from one of Finland&’s greats.