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Jouko and Jarkko Sipilä
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About UsIce Cold Crime LLC is a publishing company 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.
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. Historically there has been very limited supply of Finnish fiction in the United States, but luckily for everyone from Finnish authors to US readers this is changing. We like being the pioneers of this movement. 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. |
Who We Are |
Jarkko Sipila worked as a crime reporter since 1991 in the biggest national newspaper. Now Jarkko leads the Crime News unit at the Finnish Channel 3 TV News. He has written 19 crime novels since 1996. By 2015 Sipila has published fifteen Takamaki-novels in Finnish. Five have been translated into English in the Helsinki Homicide -series. Also, two of his books are available in German and one in Italian.
Jarkko also co-wrote a TV series in 2006 called 'Detectives Don't Sing' with his friend Jouni Molsa. The series received a million viewers at its premiere. Sipila has also written radioplays and a bunch of short stories. Find our more about Jarkko in his website: http://www.jarkkosipila.com/en _______________________________________________________ Jouko Sipila has solid background in the financial industry. After a 15 year career in banking, in 2009 Jouko started his own business, Ice Cold Crime LLC, which translates and publishes Finnish crime fiction into English. In his banking career, he worked with insurance companies at various bulge bracket investment banks in New York and London. Jouko holds a B.Sc. from Saint Cloud State University. He started his career at Norwest after graduating with his MBA from the Carlson School of Business at the University of Minnesota. Jouko was born in Finland, but now has spent over 20 years in the United States. Contact Jouko Sipila at Jouko at icecoldcrime.com or 203-918-9920 (cell) _____________________________________________________________ Hanna Forbes is the Marketing and PR Director. Her specialties include designing and updating the IceColdCrime website, updating the Facebook page, Tweeting, creating ad campaigns, managing everything related to marketing and visibility, social media and magazine ads. You can reach her by email Hanna at icecoldcrime.com. 
Hanna Forbes
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ICC in media |
CrimeReads article Finland: the lighter side of Nordic Noir. Read it here.
The BIG THRILL INTERVIEWED Jarkko Sipilä in Dec 2015. Jarkko Sipilä's INTERVIEW in the Pros 'n Cons Mystery Magazine in Oct 2015. Please see an article about Ice Cold Crime in July 28, 2010 Minneapolis Star Tribune. Please see the following video link on MTV3 interview for further information about Ice Cold Crime. This is an interview on MTV3’s Good Morning Finland program on August 12, 2009 - it is in Finnish. |