Dimensions
155 x 235 x 23mm
A young woman dies peacefully in her sleep, her husband bereft at her bedside. The man returns to work at the Finland CID, where a murder inquiry is just beginning: a woman smothered with her pillow while she slept. Others will be found murdered in the same eerily quiet and bloodless way. It is a very tranquil, peaceful sort of death, in which the victims appear to have experienced neither fear nor pain.
His interpretation of the killings tinted by his own grief and loneliness, the young policeman begins to feel an affinity with this humane killer. In a parallel narrative we spend time with the murderer, whose dysfunctional relationship with his own cracked personality has spawned his macabre behaviour.
The juxtaposition of the plights of these two young men results in a story haunting and unsettling, a novel peopled with characters who share the anxiety of feeling misunderstood, even by themselves.
