Showing posts with label Finnish crime fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Finnish crime fiction. Show all posts
Saturday, December 27, 2014

New publisher in the works

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A new Finnish publisher announced its first three books just before the holidays. I had something to do with all of them, so I'm a bit o...
Thursday, May 23, 2013

What Finnish crime writers should be translated?

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I ran across a blog post over at Rap Sheet talking about Finnish crime writers who should be translated in English. Linda L. Richards, who...
Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Kjell Westö: Lang (A Finnish crime novel)

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Well, not actually a crime novel per se, more like a mainstream novel with a crime in its center. Kjell Westö's (from the Swedish-speaki...
Thursday, September 01, 2011

New Finnish crime literature: Bagge, Rönkä, Kilpi

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I was down with flu for almost two weeks. I'm still a bit ill, but I'm so behind my work I'll have to start doing something. The...
Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Tapani Maskula's novel Houkutuslintu

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The legendary film critic from Turku and a personal friend, Tapani Maskula, is now also a novelist. His first novel, Houkutuslintu ("De...
Friday, November 20, 2009

Review of Jarkko Sipilä's book

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Steve Lewis provides a guest blogger's review of Jarkko Sipilä's novel Helsinki Homicide: Against the Wall here . More on the book ...
Monday, October 26, 2009

Review of Jarkko Sipilä's Against the Wall

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Someone called Toby commented on my months old post on Finnish writer Jarkko Sipilä's Helsinki Homicide: Against the Wall , the English ...
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Wednesday, June 24, 2009

More on Jarkko Sipilä's Helsinki Homicide

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I got around to ask Jarkko Sipilä some questions on his newly-published book Helsinki Homicide: Against the Wall . It seems getting the book...
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Thursday, June 18, 2009

Jarkko Sipilä's crime novel out in the US

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Just noticed that Jarkko Sipilä, one of the foremost Finnish crime writers (and one of the most hardboiled), has a crime novel out in the US...
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Tuesday, December 02, 2008

Jukka's cover for Hard Case Crime found a user

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Some months ago I wrote about my friend Jukka Murtosaari's attempt to break through in the US and send cover illustrations to Hard Case ...
Sunday, April 13, 2008

Jorma Napola's one-off private eye novel from 1962

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Private eye novels have never been big in Finland. I don't really know why, but I have some thoughts: private eye is a product of a cult...
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Thursday, June 23, 2005

Old and ugly Finnish crime paperback

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Here's a rather inept cover of a Finnish paperback, a very obscure Pankkiryosto Harmassa/Bank Robbery in Harma (an area in the Western ...