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Cruel Is the Night

✍ Scribed by Karo Hamalainen

Publisher: Soho Press;Soho Crime
Year: 2017
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 153 KB
Category: Fiction

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✦ Synopsis

Prizewinning Finnish author Karo Hämäläinen's English-language debut presents us with a literary homage to Agatha Christie with this black comedy locked-room mystery about murder, mayhem, and morality in our cynical modern world.

Three cell phones ring in an opulent London apartment. The calls go unanswered, because their recipients are all dead.

Earlier that night, four Finnish friends meet for a reunion dinner. It's been ten years since the host, Robert, has seen his once-best friend, Mikko. The two had an ideological falling-out because Robert, a banker, made millions off of unethical (but not illegal) interest rate manipulation; Mikko, meanwhile, is an investigative journalist who has dedicated his career to bringing down corrupt financiers and politicians. Mikko's wife, Veera—with whom Robert once had a secret affair—and Robert's young trophy wife, Elise, are also joining the fray. Mikko has arrived in London with an agenda...

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