Helsinki, 1982. Recently divorced postal worker Ilmari Nieminen has promised his daughter a piano for Christmas, but with six days to the eve and with no money, he’s desperate. Through a colleague, Ilmari ends up transporting a valuable antique sofa to Kilpisjärvi, the northernmost town in Finland. At a gas station, a childhood friend appears and promises to fix Ilmari’s van in exchange for a ride north. Soon after, a persistent Saab 96 and then an egg-yellow Lada emerge in the rearview mirror, and Ilmari realizes that he is transporting something truly special.

The Winter Job is a darkly humorous and warmly touching suspense novel about friendship, love, and death. With Antti Tuomainen at the wheel, it flies a hundred and twenty kilometers an hour straight into the darkest heart of a Finnish winter night.

Antti Tuomainen’s novel The Beaver Theory has been nominated for CrimeFest’s Last Laugh Award 2024 in the category Best Humorous Crime Novel. The CrimeFest convention is one of the biggest crime fiction events in Europe, and the winners will be announced at the CrimeFest Gala Dinner on May 11 in the UK.

Netflix announced six new Nordic feature film productions at its Next on Netflix showcase in Stockholm today, including the adaptation of Alex Ahndoril’s bestselling The Key Series, the crime whodunnit novels featuring Private detective Julia Stark.
Working titled The Key Series, the debut feature-length instalment will see Julia Stark hired by a wealthy family to solve a murder been committed at their estate in the northwest of Sweden. Banijay company Filmlance is lead producing. Casting and the delivery date has yet to be confirmed.

Netflix also announced Little Siberia, based on Antti Tuomainen’s celebrated novel with the same name, from Finnish director Dome Karukoski, whose feature credits include Tom Of Finland. The drama revolves around a remote village which is changed forever when a meteorite falls through the roof of a car one night. Karukoski takes co-writing credits with Minna Panjanen on the film.
Ina Sohlberg is producing with Mark Lwoff, Misha Jaari at Bufo. Cast members are Eero Ritala, Malla Malmivaara, Tommi Korpela, Martti Suosalo. Delivery is for 2025.

Antti Tuomainen’s final installment in the acclaimed Rabbit Factor trilogy, The Beaver Theory, has been named one of the Thriller Books of the Year by The Sunday Times. The newspaper calls it “The joyous, triumphant conclusion to Tuomainen’s trilogy” and “The comic thriller of the year.”

The darkly humorous novel by internationally acclaimed author Antti Tuomainen showcases humanity at its most bare – in middle age, suspected of murder, in a sauna.

A cold-blooded killer strikes at the hottest moment: the head of a sauna heater company is murdered in the sauna. Who has turned up the temperature time and time again and burnt him to death?

The evidence points in the direction of Anni Korpinen, the top salesperson and potential successor at Puhti Saunas. And just as if being middle-aged, in a marriage that has lost its purpose, and struggling with work weren’t enough, Anni realizes that she must be quicker than both the police and the murderer to uncover who is behind it all – before it’s too late.

Antti Tuomainen’s suspenseful novel The Moose Paradox has been nominated for CrimeFest’s Last Laugh Award 2023 in the category Best Humourous Crime Novel. The winner will be announced at the CrimeFest Gala Dinner on May 13.

Antti Tuomainen’s lauded The Moose Paradox is one of just two translated titles to feature on the Guardian’s list of best crime and thriller novels of 2022. The UK newspaper calls The Moose Paradox a “standout” as well as “delightfully funny.”

The Petrona Award’s jury has just presented its shortlist for the 2022 Petrona Award for ‘Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year.’ The list of six nominees include Anders Roslund with Knock Knock and Antti Tuomainen with The Rabbit Factor.

The Judges have the following to say about each title:

“Another fine example of Roslund’s talent for seamlessly blending together a solid police procedural with a high octane thriller, leading to a gritty and fast-paced read set against his astute observations on the societal and political issues of contemporary Sweden.” – on Anders Roslund’s Knock Knock.

“[It] puts at its heart an ordinary man drawing on his previously undiscovered and extraordinary resolve, to carve out and keep his place in a hostile world, with often darkly funny results.” – on Antti Tuomainen’s The Rabbit Factor.

The winning title will be announced on Thursday 8 December 2022.

The Petrona Award’s jury has just presented its longlist for the 2022 Petrona Award for ‘Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year.’ The list of twelve nominees include Katrine Engberg with The Butterfly House, Jørn Lier Horst & Thomas Enger with Smoke Screen, Anders Roslund with Knock Knock, and Antti Tuomainen with The Rabbit Factor.

The shortlist is to be announced on 16 November 2022.

Fifth Season (formerly Endeavor Content) has acquired international distribution rights to Elisa Viihde original series The Man Who Died, the adaptation based on Antti Tuomainen’s bestselling book with the same name. The six-episode series is adapted by Brendan Foley and Markku Flink and led by Jussi Vatanen (Dead Leaves).

Since its premiere on June 19, The Man Who Died has been the most watched series on Finnish streaming service Elisa Viihde Viaplay. Produced by Helsinki-based ReelMedia Ltd. and Germany’s ndF International Production, the series follows mushroom entrepreneur Jaakko (Vatanen) who discovers he has been slowly poisoned. Jaakko is a man in his prime, with a thriving business and keen customers, but his world shatters when a doctor reveals his days are numbered. During his hunt for the killer, people have a habit of dying or vanishing. And yet he feels gloriously alive, for the first time in years.

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The Geneva International Film Festival (GIFF) has unveiled the nominations for its 28th edition. Competing in the International Series section is the acclaimed thriller Headhunters, the lauded psychological drama thriller The Dark Heart and the crime comedy The Man Who Died.

Headhunters, inspired by Jo Nesbø’s eponymous best-selling novel, is written by Rolf-Magne Golten Andersen and Geir Henning Hopeland, who is also the series’ director. The Dark Heart is created by screenwriter Oskar Söderlund and director Gustav Möller. The Man Who Died is based on Antti Tuomainen’s bestselling novel of the same name.

The 2022 GIFF is running from November 4-13.

The going gets tough and the tough get tougher in the comical, touching conclusion of The Rabbit Factor Trilogy.

How best to reconcile the ongoing skulduggery of the adventure-park business with the unpredictable realities of life in a blended family? The two appear to have only one common denominator: neither is well equipped to cope with a rising body count. In order to solve this seemingly impossible conundrum, Henri Koskinen has to step far beyond the order and precision of his mathematically-defined comfort zone.

In The Beaver Theory, Henri Koskinen, the actuary and adventure-park entrepreneur who has won the hearts of readers around the world, encounters the biggest challenge of his career. The first part of the trilogy is currently being adapted for the silver screen in Hollywood.