"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.
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.
See LINK. Our newsletter is out featuring There Are No Happy Loves by Sergio Olguin. Part of the Veronica Rosenthal series, our fearless Buenos Aires investigative journalist. Read More
The July BLP newsletter is out: LINK Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight by Riku Onda is available, to follow on from the success of The Aosawa Murders, a NYTImes Notable Book... Read More
The June newsletter is out: LINK. Leonardo Padura's latest Conde novel The Transparency of Time is available, strong reviews for James Wolff's espionage thriller How to Betray Your Country and more.
See LINK for the April newsletter. A free online event with Gianrico Carofiglio to celebrate "The Measure of Time", the first audio interview with James Wolff--author of espionage thriller "How to Betray Your Country", and much more.