[]
Dark As My Heart
  • Published: 15 October 2016
  • ISBN: 9780099593577
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $32.99

Dark As My Heart

Formats & editions
EBook
1 Oct 2015
Paperback
15 Oct 2016
Buy from…
Amazon Booktopia Dymocks QBD Readings Your Bookstore Abbeys Boomerang Find local retailers Find local retailers Collins Fishpond Gleebooks Harry Hartog Kinokuniya Robinsons The Nile Mighty Ape

A Hitchcockian psychological thriller from Finland's top crime writer, about a son's search for the truth about his mother's disappearance

From Finland's top crime-writer, the prize-winning author of The Healer

Aleksi lost his mother on a rainy October day when he was 13 years old. 20 years later, he is certain that he knows who's responsible. Everything points to millionaire Henrik Saarinen. The police don't agree. Aleksi has only one option: to get close to Henrik Saarinen and find out the truth about his mother's fate on his own. But as Aleksi soon discovers, delving into Saarinen and his beautiful daughter’s family secrets is a confusing and dangerous enterprise.

Dark As My Heart tells the story of a mother and son and the search for justice. It's a story about the cost of obsessions, the price of vengeance and the power of love. Set against a vividly conjured bleak and beautiful Finnish landscape, Dark As My Heart is both a Hitchcockian mystery tale and a modern Greek tragedy.
  • Published: 15 October 2016
  • ISBN: 9780099593577
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $32.99
Categories:

About the author

Antti Tuomainen

Antti Tuomainen was born in Finland in 1971 and lives in Helsinki. His novel The Healer was awarded the Clue Award for Best Finnish Crime Novel. Bestselling author Sofi Oksanen has said of Tuomainen’s work: ‘The ability to use all the tricks of crime fiction and all the tools of poetry makes Tuomainen's work unique.'

portrait photo of Antti Tuomainen

Also by Antti Tuomainen

The Healer
See all

Praise for Dark As My Heart

The story carries a strong purpose, a downright obsession, under which everything culminates. .. The novel is extremely well written, and is a pleasure from a literary perspective as well

Ilta-Sanomat (Finland)

Refined writing and thinking, original and different from the mainstream. *****

Iltalehti (Finland)

Dark as My Heart is definitely THE crime story of this summer. (…) Antti Tuomainen is the freshest success in the Finnish thriller novel field. His new book Dark As My Heart proves it. The book is sensational

Etelä-Saimaa (Finland)

With this thriller, Antti Tuomainen shows that he is one of the best crime authors in Finland. The story is believable, exciting and wistful at the same time

Iltalehti Ilona (Finland)
penguin pop image
penguin pop image