A top saleswoman at a Finnish sauna company must outwit the police and a murderer when her boss is found dead … in a sauna. A darkly funny, tense new thriller from ' The funniest writer in Europe' (The Times) `The best comic crime novel you' ll read this year´ Abir Mukherjee `Suspense is uppermost in this adroit mix of psychological thriller, whodunnit and middle-aged rom-com. Comedy is still pervasive … the novel' s glorious gallery of weirdos´ Sunday Times Book of the Month `Finnish author Tuomainen has a talent for creating offbeat characters … [a] tense, pacy novel, laced with the author' s trademark laconic humour´ Guardian Book of the Month `It may seem hard to find good comic crime-writers, but clearly we haven' t been looking in Finland … simultaneously thrilling and evocative of the mundanity of life, and also very funny indeed´ Telegraph ______ Love, murder, middle age, and a sauna to die for… A cold-blooded killer strikes at the hottest moment: the new head of a sauna-stove company is murdered … in the sauna. Who has turned up the temperature and burned him to death? The evidence points in the direction of Anni Korpinen - top salesperson and the victim' s successor at Steam Devil. And as if hitting middle-age, being 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… From the international bestselling author of Little Siberia and The Rabbit Factor, comes a darkly funny, delightfully tense new thriller that showcases humanity at its most bare - in middle age, suspected of murder and, of course, in a sauna… _____ `Showcases Antti' s trademark deadpan humour and crime plots focused on intriguingly quirky individuals. An utter delight´ Vaseem Khan `Just what you want from Antti Tuomainen, the brilliant moulding of apparent mundanity into a which-way-now thrill ride, with humour drier than a desert snake' s belly´ Ian Moore `The funniest writer in Europe´ The Times `Hilarious, beautifully penned and startlingly inventive. No other writer can come up with more ways to kill you in a sauna, and The Burning Stones cements Tuomainen' s position as the king of the humorous crime caper´ Abir Mukherjee `Laconic, thrilling and warmly human - hugely enjoyable´ Christopher Brookmyre `Antti turns the heat up with this wryly comic thriller. You'll sweat along with the characters!´ Douglas Skelton `You don' t expect to laugh when you' re reading about terrible crimes, but that' s what you' ll do when you pick up one of Tuomainen' s decidedly quirky thrillers´ New York Times `Finland's greatest export´ M.J. Arlidge `A refreshing change from the decidedly gloomier crime fiction for which Scandinavia is known´ Publishers Weekly `Right up there with the best´ Times Literary Supplement Praise for Antti Tuomainen `Delightfully funny´ Guardian `Deftly plotted, poignant and perceptive in its wry reflections on mortality and very funny´ Irish Times `Fresh and witty´ Chris Ewan `A thrilling and hilarious read´ Liz Nugent `Charming, funny and clever´ Literary Review `A delight from start to finish´ Big Issue `Original and brilliant story-telling´ Helen FitzGerald `A thriller with black comedy worth of Nabokov´ Telegraph