Karo Hamalainen. (2017). Cruel Is the Night. Soho Press.

Karo Hamalainen. 2017. Cruel Is the Night. Soho Press.

Karo Hamalainen, Cruel Is the Night. Soho Press, 2017.

Karo Hamalainen. Cruel Is the Night. Soho Press, 2017.

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   • bioText: Karo Hämäläinen spent 15 years as an economics reporter and currently works as the managing editor of Parnasso, Finland’s leading literary publication. His debut novel, The Buyout, was shortlisted for the 2011 Savonia Prize and received the 2012 Tampere Literary Prize. His novel Alone won the 2016 Savonia Prize. Following stints in Munich, Berlin, and Tampere, he now lives in Helsinki. In his spare time, he likes reading and running; his record marathon time is 3:04:04.
     Owen F. Witesman is a professional literary translator with a master’s in Finnish and Estonian area studies from Indiana University. He has translated more than thirty Finnish books into English, including novels, children’s books, poetry, plays, graphic novels, and nonfiction. Owen currently resides in Springville, Utah, with his wife, three daughters, one son, two dogs, a cat, and thirty-odd fruit trees.
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Prizewinning Finnish author Karo Hämäläinen’s English-language debut is a literary homage to Agatha Christie and a 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 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 manipulations. Mikko, meanwhile, is an investigative journalist who has dedicated his career to bringing down corrupt financiers and politicians. Also along for the evening are Mikko’s wife, Veera—with whom Robert once had a secret affair—and Robert’s young trophy wife, Elise. Mikko has arrived in London with an agenda and thinks he’s about to get away with murder, but he has no idea what’s on the menu for the night: not only does every diner have a bone to pick with another, but there’s an arsenal of deadly weapons hiding in plain
sight.
And by the end of the night, there will be only one survivor.

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   • content: "It's hard to separate the potential killers from the probable victims, and the mood ranges from darkly humorous to just plain terrifying. Hamalainen is a wicked and controlled writer who rarely allows his readers a moment of peace."
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     Starred review from February 6, 2017
     Hämäläinen makes his English-language debut with a darkly humorous, carefully crafted Finnish take on the classic British locked-room mystery. Telegraphing the ending first—no one is alive in millionaire banker Robert’s London apartment—Hämäläinen rewinds to the events of a dinner party, to which Robert has invited his old school friend Mikko, whose sense of righteousness as an investigative journalist fighting financial corruption leads him to take the occasion as an opportunity to poison Robert for the good of the world. Mikko’s wife, Veera, who is fiercely attached to him despite a long secret affair with Robert, and Robert’s beautiful wife, Elise, whose simplicity hides a complex background, round out the group. Hämäläinen is at ease with using the four distinct character voices to shift the apparent power balance constantly over the course of the evening, providing both thrilling surprises and the dread of inevitability, all in the context of some truly delightful dinner dialogue.

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     March 1, 2017
     A tense, irony-laden, not-so-cozy ode to cozies, award-winning author Hamalainen's English-language debut begins innocently enough as Finnish college friends Mikko, Rob, and Veera reunite in Rob's London penthouse. But the story quickly darkens as it becomes evident that Mikko plans to murder Rob in a plot entangling Veera and Rob's wife, Elise, who have their own motives for murder. Rob's ethically flexible financier lifestyle couldn't be more different from his best friend Mikko's, a journalist world renowned for outing finance's biggest cheats. Mikko is disgusted by Rob's rampant entitlement and his treatment of Elise, whose covert relationship with Mikko is slowly revealed. And Veera, Mikko's wife and Rob's occasional lover, harbors a simmering rage over Rob's role in his college girlfriend's death. The quartet dance around failed and aborted murder attempts as Hamalainen initiates a nail-biting shell game of poisons and allegiances. It's clear early on that only one of them will survive the night, but clever storytelling masks Hamalainen's secrets until the final pages.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2017, American Library Association.)

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