THE OUTBACK series by Joona Keskitalo has sold over 50,000 copies!

We have incredible news! THE OUTBACK SERIES by Joona Keskitalo has sold over 50,000 copies in Finland!

In the Outback series, readers travel to the ends of long sandy roads, into regions where the Finnish mindset thrives in its most stubborn form. In these stories, small local communities in remote villages across Finland tackle crimes on their own, often by questionable means. Each book is a standalone story with its own colorful cast of characters, and the series can be read and published in any order. This series is for the readers of Jens Lapidus and for the fans of the Fargo series!

So far, four books have been published: The Island That Torn Apart, The Swamp That Sank, Howl of the Arctic Fell, and The Lake That Cracked. The fifth thriller will be released in May 2026!

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Each book in the series is a unique story with its own set of characters, creating a series of thriller-like visits to the ends of long dirt roads, unleashing the Finnish mental landscape at its most naked and exotic!

The Island Torn Apart

Korppoo: a place where many have died.

The Island Torn Apart promises the reader at least one thing – when the earth’s crust tears, things will be revealed that no one would have dared to dig out.

The Swamp That Sank

Revonlahti, the final break from life.

THE SWAMP THAT SANK is a story about two gas stations and six bodies along the expressway cutting through North Ostrobothnia.

Howl of the Arctic Fell

Muonio, a place where to live and a place where to die.

Janita left the Muonio night to return home with a new love of her life. Nine hours later, she finds it hard to remember what it was about him that she fell in love with. But today, the mild aftertaste of a love adventure turns promisingly sweet.
Janita has been living out of control and has accumulated debts to every second person in Muonio. All that’s left is her own house with a backyard, next to which lives an old misanthrope called Odd. Despite the fiendish neighbor, Janita’s nocturnal chosen one offers to buy Janita’s house out of the blue. So all is for the better – or it would be if the property inspection wouldn’t produce a corpse as a by-product – and if Odd stayed on his own property.

The Lake That Cracked

A story about the seven signs of evil, a few rolls of plastic, and a newt who has made a forest in Southern Karelia its territory.

When Kari Kinnunen has made up his mind to cut down a forest, he cuts it down, no matter what endangered newt lives on his land. One can get rid of the creature by draining the waters of a small lake across the border as a nuisance for the Russians. But the water rushes in the wrong direction, destroys everything, and leaves Kari unable to speak. All that is left is a horrible find: four corpses lying on the lakebed.