The End of Sunset Grove
ABOUT
THE BOOK
Best friends Irma and Siiri are relieved when they can finally return home, but things have changed in the retirement home . . . Sunset Grove is under new management, a sinister organisation that promises spiritual enlightenment in return for donations from its residents. And the staff seem to have disappeared, replaced by technology that remotely takes care of all of their needs, if only they could work out how to use it . . . The Lavender Ladies are increasingly suspicious of the new order and plan an elaborate act of sabotage. But their last hurrah has some drastic consequences – will the Lavender Ladies get more than they bargained for.
ABOUT
THE TRANSLATOR Kristian
London
Kristian London is an American translator who divides his time between Seattle and Helsinki. His first published translation, Harri Nykänen’s Nights of Awe, appeared in February 2012 (Bitter Lemon Press, UK). He is currently working on another Nordic crime novel slated for spring release by Minneapolis-based publisher Ice Cold Crime.
Kristian London is an American translator who divides his time between Seattle and Helsinki. His first published translation, Harri Nykänen’s Nights of Awe, appeared in February 2012 (Bitter Lemon Press, UK). He is currently working on another Nordic crime novel slated for spring release by Minneapolis-based publisher Ice Cold Crime.
NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS
The book is the last of a trilogy starring three over-90 nice ladies caught in the mechanism of Finnish welfare for old people and courageously and humorously fighting “the system”. The last of the trilogy is the darkest of the three and projects today’s reality in the near future. Where very little of humanity and sympathy survives, thanks to over-90 year olds. Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli “Vittorio Emanuele III”, Italy