The Burning Stones: The nail-bitingly tense, darkly funny new thriller from the author of The Man Who Died

A top saleswoman at a Finnish sauna company must outwit the police and a murderer when her boss is found dead … in a sauna.A darkly funny, tense new thriller from ‘The funniest writer in Europe’ (The Times) ‘The best comic crime novel you’ll read this year’ Abir Mukherjee 'Suspense is uppermost in this adroit mix of psychological thriller, whodunnit and middle-aged rom-com.Comedy is still pervasive … the novel’s glorious gallery of weirdos' Sunday Times Book of the Month 'Finnish author Tuomainen has a talent for creating offbeat characters … [a] tense, pacy novel, laced with the author’s trademark laconic humour' Guardian Book of the Month 'It may seem hard to find good comic crime-writers, but clearly we haven’t been looking in Finland … simultaneously thrilling and evocative of the mundanity of life, and also very funny indeed' Telegraph ______ Love, murder, middle age, and a sauna to die for… A cold-blooded killer strikes at the hottest moment: the new head of a sauna-stove company