Ice Cold Crime, LLC
Ice Cold Crime LLC is a new publishing house founded in 2009 in the Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota area.
Its mission is to originate, translate, publish and promote Finnish fiction in the United States and other
English speaking countries.
Current Production
Initially, ICC will focus on publishing Finnish crime fiction. We published our first book in 2009, Jarkko
Sipila's award winning Helsinki Homicide: Against the Wall. The book won the best Finnish detective novel
award in 2009. The book follows Helsinki Police Violent Crime Unit Lieutenant Detective Kari Takamäki and
his team as they solve a gang murder and their undercover officer Suhonen who gets in too deep into his role.
In 2010, ICC published the continuation of the Helsinki Homicide series, Helsinki Homicide: Vengeance. In it
Takamäki and Suhonen combat with the Skulls, after their boss Tapani Larsson walks out of prison with one
thought on his mind: Vengeance. Wanting to reclaim his gang's honor and avenge those who have wronged
him, Larsson targets Suhonen, the undercover detective who put him in prison. Meanwhile, Suhonen's best
friend, an ex-con himself, wants to wash his hands of crime, but in the process, is driven deeper into it.
With the help of his boss, Lieutenant Takamäki, and the National Bureau of Investigation, Suhonen hunts for
the loose thread that could unravel the entire gang. But with every string he pulls, he flirts with death itself.
See www.jarkkosipila.com for more details.
Download a one page summary of Helsinki Homicide: Vengeance here
Download a one page summary of Helsinki Homicide: Against the Wall here
Upcoming Production
ICC has acquired the rights to Harri Nykanen's Raid and the Blacker Sheep (Raid ja Mustempi Lammas,
WSOY, 2000) and is currently working on the translation. We hope to publish the book in Auguste /
September 2010. We have had preliminary conversations with Harri about another Raid book as well. In the
next few years, ICC hopes to be the premier publisher of Finnish crime novels in the United States having
translated and published three authors and ten books.
Background on Ice Cold Crime:
Please see the following video link on MTV3 Interview for further information about Ice Cold Crime. It is an
interview on MTV3’s Good Morning Finland program on August 12, 2009 - it is in Finnish.
Based on the success of Nordic authors, such as Henning Mankell and Stieg Larsson, ICC believes that there
is a market for Finnish crime fiction in the United States. Furthermore, there is very limited supply of Finnish
fiction in the United States. We believe that reading contemporary Finnish fiction would better enable the
American readership to connect with the issues of modern Finland. Furthermore, we believe that the internet
generation will be more interested in reading contemporary Finnish fiction than classical Finnish literature.
ICC believes that publishing more Finnish fiction will promote knowledge of Finnish culture in the United
States and hopefully create possibilities for other Finnish authors to export their product.
Ice Cold Crime LLC is a new publishing house founded in 2009 in the Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota area.
Its mission is to originate, translate, publish and promote Finnish fiction in the United States and other
English speaking countries.
Current Production
Initially, ICC will focus on publishing Finnish crime fiction. We published our first book in 2009, Jarkko
Sipila's award winning Helsinki Homicide: Against the Wall. The book won the best Finnish detective novel
award in 2009. The book follows Helsinki Police Violent Crime Unit Lieutenant Detective Kari Takamäki and
his team as they solve a gang murder and their undercover officer Suhonen who gets in too deep into his role.
In 2010, ICC published the continuation of the Helsinki Homicide series, Helsinki Homicide: Vengeance. In it
Takamäki and Suhonen combat with the Skulls, after their boss Tapani Larsson walks out of prison with one
thought on his mind: Vengeance. Wanting to reclaim his gang's honor and avenge those who have wronged
him, Larsson targets Suhonen, the undercover detective who put him in prison. Meanwhile, Suhonen's best
friend, an ex-con himself, wants to wash his hands of crime, but in the process, is driven deeper into it.
With the help of his boss, Lieutenant Takamäki, and the National Bureau of Investigation, Suhonen hunts for
the loose thread that could unravel the entire gang. But with every string he pulls, he flirts with death itself.
See www.jarkkosipila.com for more details.
Download a one page summary of Helsinki Homicide: Vengeance here
Download a one page summary of Helsinki Homicide: Against the Wall here
Upcoming Production
ICC has acquired the rights to Harri Nykanen's Raid and the Blacker Sheep (Raid ja Mustempi Lammas,
WSOY, 2000) and is currently working on the translation. We hope to publish the book in Auguste /
September 2010. We have had preliminary conversations with Harri about another Raid book as well. In the
next few years, ICC hopes to be the premier publisher of Finnish crime novels in the United States having
translated and published three authors and ten books.
Background on Ice Cold Crime:
Please see the following video link on MTV3 Interview for further information about Ice Cold Crime. It is an
interview on MTV3’s Good Morning Finland program on August 12, 2009 - it is in Finnish.
Based on the success of Nordic authors, such as Henning Mankell and Stieg Larsson, ICC believes that there
is a market for Finnish crime fiction in the United States. Furthermore, there is very limited supply of Finnish
fiction in the United States. We believe that reading contemporary Finnish fiction would better enable the
American readership to connect with the issues of modern Finland. Furthermore, we believe that the internet
generation will be more interested in reading contemporary Finnish fiction than classical Finnish literature.
ICC believes that publishing more Finnish fiction will promote knowledge of Finnish culture in the United
States and hopefully create possibilities for other Finnish authors to export their product.
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