Status Updates From Hiljainen tyttö

This is nominally a detective novel that strikes me as mostly an excuse for infodumps on various unrelated topics the author has an encyclopaedic knowledge of, from the insides of the circus industry to the history of various Eastern Orthodox Christian monastic orders. The fact that he gets something coherent out of that is still impressive in its own right.

one of the weirdest novels I have read in a long while since at least Brendan Connell's "The Galaxy Club" (also a nominal crime novel with fantastic elements) not sure I understand it yet but I do enjoy its atmosphere