Loukko by 
Original title: Tunturi, joka ulvoi
Author: Joona Keskitalo
Published: 2025
Publisher: FINLAND: Bazar (orig.)
Genre: Crime & Suspense
Part of a series: The Outback series
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English synopsis
Muonio, a place where to live and a place where to die.
Janita left the Muonio night to return home with a new love of her life. Nine hours later, she finds it hard to remember what it was about him that she fell in love with. But today, the mild aftertaste of a love adventure turns promisingly sweet.
Janita, aged 27, has been living out of control and has accumulated debts to every second person in Muonio. All that's left is her own house with a backyard, next to which lives an old misanthrope called Odd. Despite the fiendish neighbour, Janita’s nocturnal chosen one offers to buy Janita's house out of the blue. So all is for the better - or it would be if the property inspection wouldn’t produce a corpse as a by-product - and if Odd stayed on his own property.
In Joona Keskitalo's The Outback Series, local communities across Finland investigate crimes with their own strength and questionable means, and each book is an independent narrative with its own inimitable characters.
PRAISE: “Keskitalo does completely his own thing. He is the most original of [Finland’s] thriller authors and now also shows that he is the most adaptable. [---] the slow but inevitable tightening of the screw in terms of suspense keeps one hooked till the very end."
- Kai Hirvasnoro in Kansan Uutiset newspaper
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