An old mystery unfolds in the third book of this feel-good suspense series
Author: Eppu Nuotio
Finnish original: Pitkäsoitto
Publisher: Gummerus, 2024
Genre: cozy crime fiction
Number of pages: 250 pp
Reading material: Finnish original, English synopsis
Raakel Oksa has her hands full with work, so her boyfriend Danne offers to handle a job renovating a beloved old-school electronics shop that’s making a generational change to become a café. The owner of the future café gives Danne a record col lec tion that belonged to her late uncle Pekka, but Danne soon notices that the records are unplayable. Why would someone scratch up an entire record collection? Raakel, Danne and lover of mysteries Ellen Lähde, just returned from Berlin, begin to solve this old whodunit. The reader is taken in flashbacks to the beginning of the 1980’s, when the electronics shop is doing well. The children of the owner have worked in the shop since they were little. But the relationship between the siblings starts to fray when Pekka, their father’s favorite, gets mixed up in shady dealings, takes too many risks – and ends up murdered. Carpenter Raakel Oksa stumbles upon old secrets and solves mysteries in this cozy mystery series. The books also feature Ellen Lähde, the shrewd, vivacious pensioner well-known from another bestselling Eppu Nuotio series.
Previous books in the Raakel Oksa series are The Buttercup Dress (2022) and The Silver Locket (2023).
About the author
Eppu Nuotio