![]() ![]() ![]() “Charming and intriguing, switching from playful to creepy to heartfelt and back again…. “An exquisite balance of suspense, precision-engineered structure and darkly playful humour… fascinating. “Unnerving, enigmatic….Hints of Let the Right One In and Haruki Murakami's elliptical early science fiction novels flavor a creepy tale about mutating books, buried secrets and ghostly encounters.” - Financial Times (UK) “Mixes the small-town surrealism of Twin Peaks with the clandestine-society theme of Donna Tartt's The Secret History.” - The List (UK) “ Twin Peaks meets the Brothers Grimm.” - The Telegraph (UK) ![]() It is complex and ambiguous and very, very good.” - The Maine Edge “An intricately quirky look beneath the surface of a small town and the successes of the literary minds that put it on the map. “Jääskeläinen does an exceptional job creating a densely mysterious setting, then takes his time teasing out a mystery here, an odd occurrence there, guiding the reader into a positively creeped-out state of mind without ever spelling anything out as scary: more ‘Sleepy Hollow' than a straight murder story.” - A.V. “A voyeuristic literary mystery with bits of Blue Velvet and shades of The Shadow of the Wind.” - Tor.com ![]()
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