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January Newsletter and new interview with Katja Ivar

Katja Ivar - Trouble
"Trouble" by Katja Ivar is out and the subject of our January newsletter HERE. It's the third in the Hella Mauzer series and Katja reveals much about the genesis of the book and its context in the INTERVIEW.

Katja Ivar Interview in Publishers Weekly

Katja Ivar - Trouble

Daylight is No Shield:  Katja Ivar Interview in PW--December 2022

In Trouble, Ivar’s third outing for Hella Mauzer, set in the early 1950s, the Finnish PI seeks the truth about some deaths in her family’s past. 

What about Cold War Finland intrigued you? The era is fascinating, because that’s when our contemporary world took shape, really. And Finland was such an interesting place, because it had a very long border with the Soviet Union that’s very hard to monitor. I wanted the tension from that geopolitical context, which plays a big role.