Not the type of job Hella was hoping for, but she accepts it on the condition that she is given access to the files concerning the roadside death of her father in 1942, at a time when Finland joined forces with Nazi Germany in its attack against the Soviet Union. Hella, now a reluctant private investigator, has been asked by her former boss at the Helsinki murder squad to do a background check on a member of the Finnish secret services. TROUBLE: Helsinki, June 1953, at the heart of the Cold War. KATJA IVAR chats to Paul Burke about her new novel Trouble, the third Hella Mauzer mystery, growing up in Russia and the US, Finland and women in the police force. He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2022. Paul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network. Alison L Strayer) & Simple Passion (trans. His novels have been shortlisted for a number of awards, including the Branford Boase Prize for Best First Children's Novel, the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, the Costa Prize for Best Children's Book, and have won the Betty Trask for Best First Novel and the Crimefest Prize for Best YA Crime Novel.Īnnie Ernaux The Years (trans. He has written a work of non-fiction, The Rough Guide to Classic Novels. At first he wrote books for adults, then books for children, which grew up at roughly the same rate his own children grew up, and now he is back writing books for adults again. A former Managing Director of David Fickling Books, where he worked with many wonderful writers, including Philip Pullman, he has also taught at Oxford Brookes University and is currently a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Exeter College, Oxford. SIMON MASON has pursued parallel careers as a publisher and an author, whose YA crime novels Running Girl, Kid Got Shot and Hey, Sherlock! feature the sixteen-year-old slacker genius Garvie Smith. But while Ray's investigation stalls Ryan brings his unique talents to unofficial and quite illegal inquiries which will bring him into a confrontation with the very officials who have thrown him out of the force.
Ray begins to delve deeper, unearthing an underground network of criminal forces in the local area.
Ryan Wilkins, one of the youngest ever Detective Inspectors in the Thames Valley force, dishonourably discharged three months ago, watches his former partner DI Ray Wilkins deliver a press conference, confirming a lead. SIMON MASON chats to Paul Burke about his new novel A BROKEN AFTERNOON, Oxford, Morse, publishing andĪ four-year-old girl goes missing in plain sight outside her nursery in Oxford, a middle-class, affluent area,
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