"A darkly delectable, fresh blend of horror and Finnish myth."-Kirkus Reviews"Alex Grass is a master of tonal shifts, as A Boy’s Hammer veers between truly grotesque scenes of body horror and mass killing and hilariously off-kilter sections of goofy humor."-Self-Publishing Review"Filled with interesting characters and alternating POVs, Grass grips his reader’s attention and rarely lets it loose."-Independent Book Review20 years ago, Alan and his mother disappeared in a plane crash off the coast of Helsinki. 20 years later, a giant man with his whole body covered in tattoos appears amidst the rubble of an explosion at a Philadelphia oil refinery. He says that he’s Alan come back from the dead. Alan’s genius billionaire Aunt Mimi agrees. And the first thing the reappeared giant has to do? Return to Helsinki, Finland. All the while, strange happenings are underway in A resurrected serial killer. Hidden (oc)cult conspiracies. Bizarre murders that defy the laws of space and time. Aunt Mimi in a miraculous trance state that grants her unseen visions of prophecy, and telekinetic powers. The only person capable of unraveling this mystery? Detective Jefferson O’Brady, a dissolute alcoholic with a photographic memory…and absolutely no friends on the force. Something’s going down in the City of Brotherly Love.

Publication Year: 2022