Fishing for the Little Pike

Elina Ylijaako has returned to her home village in Eastern Lapland, as she does every year. For reasons that are too strange to go into here, she has three days to catch a pike, or disaster will ensue. But when a water sprite emerges from the pond and other ancient creatures soon join the game, Elina's fishing trip turns into a life-or-death adventure. Meanwhile a police sergeant named Janatuinen is searching for Elina on suspicion of murder. But first the sergeant has to survive a fishing trip of her own with a local forest imp and make it through hex-night - a carnival of the dead that even the most hard-blooded witch in the village knows to avoid. Fishing for the Little Pike is a linguistically virtuosic novel, at once love story and mythical fantasy, that will make you splutter with laughter one minute and turn deadly serious the next.