The Priest of Evil

by Matti Joensuu

Translated from the Finnish by David Hackston

There has been a strange succession of deaths at Helsinki tube stations. The police are baffled: nobody has seen anything and the CCTV tapes show nothing.

The plot centres on a fanatical priest who brainwashes teenagers into carrying bomb-filled backpacks. Detective Sergent Timo Harjunpaa of the Helsinki Violent Crimes Unit has seen more than enough of the seamier side of human nature, but the forces of evil have never before crossed his path in such an overwhelming fashion

(From Publisher)

Matti Joensuu is a serial novelist and a criminal investigator for Helsinki PD. Joensuu, who believes the police officer's "ringside seat" on society can lend prescience.