> The only novels I know from that country are a few
by Matti Yrj‰n‰
> Joensuu, through French translations.
> Mainly with a police detective,Timo Harjunp‰‰, and
rather dark.
One of Joensuu's Harjunpaa-novels was published in English in
the 1980's. Stone Murders was the name of the book. I heard a
rumour that another translation is about to be published in
the near future. He is a policeman himself, and I like his
books much more than I like most of the Swedish police
procedurals nowadays (including Mallander). Joensuu has an
excellent sense of characters and places, and his stories are
quite dark. But neither Joensuu's style nor his main
character, police detective Timo Harjunpaa, is very
hard-boiled.
Tapani Bagge
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