The Ulvila Killing, on the first of December 2006 in a suburb of Pori, is the most famous 'cold case' in the history of Finnish crime. In 'Zem, or the Skill to Catch a Killer', this bizar event is seen from a new perspective: as being part of the political developments of those days. The title refers to an episode of Twin Peaks, with Zen turning into Zem and the scenery from the American Far West to a remote corner of Northern Europe. But the people in this book are subject to the same Lynchian sense of awe and threat...