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The Healer

The Healer

Author(s): Antti Tuomainen

Location(s): Helsinki

Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future

Era(s): Future

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It’s two days before Christmas and Helsinki is battling ruthless climate catastrophe: subway tunnels are flooded: abandoned vehicles are burning in the streets. People are fleeing to the far north where conditions are still tolerable. Social order is crumbling and private security firms have undermined the police force. Tapani Lehtinen, a struggling poet, is among the few still willing to live in the city.

When Tapani’s wife Johanna, a journalist, goes missing, he embarks on a frantic hunt for her. Johanna’s disappearance seems to be connected to a story she was researching about a serial killer known as ‘The Healer’. Determined to find Johanna, Tapani’s search leads him to uncover secrets from her past: secrets that connect her to the very murders she was investigating…

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“I implore you to read one more Scandinavian thriller. Antti Tuomainen’s The Healer is a mix between Stieg Larsson and an introduction to Cormac McCarthy’s The Road” (Patrick Neale Booksellers’ Choice )

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