The Fresh Cut
- Author: Antti Tuomainen (Finland)
- Book type: Finnish thriller, comic thriller
- Original: Hyvällä tai sahalla (2025)
- English translation: David Hackston
- Publisher: Orenda Books
- To be released: November 5, 2026
- Length: 264 pages
- Format: hardback / ebook
- Best Finnish Crime Novel of the Year
- Prize: £ 18.99 / £ 9.99
Content of The Fresh Cut thriller by Antti Tuomainen
This is the most audacious thriller by Antti Tuomainen yet! Meet Heikki Nevalainen: sawmill owner, reluctant criminal, and a man about to have the very worst week of his life.
Heikki is the proud owner of a once successful sawmill, a mountain of debt and very few options to deal with either of them. Then local gangster Ismo Sippo arrives with an unexpected solution: dispose of Sippo’s dead wife and the sawmill can keep running – refuse, and Heikki loses everything. Horrified but desperate, he loads Annaleena into his car and heads for the mill. But Annaleena proves to be not quite as dead as expected.
With a Belgian buyer arriving to inspect the timber, deadlines looming, tempers fraying and his own workers hatching plans of their own, Heikki discovers that keeping a sawmill running is hard enough without a half-dead body in the back.