Jarkko Sipila


Jarkko Sipila is a Finnish author and journalist. He has been reporting Finnish crime
news for MTV3 TV News and the Helsingin Sanomat newspaper for almost 20 years.
He has written 11 novels and co-wrote a TV- series “Detectives Don’t Sing” based on
the Takamäki-books. The pilot episode drew almost a million Finnish viewers.

Helsinki Homicide: Against The Wall, the winner of the 2009 Finnish Crime Novel of
the Year Award, is the first of Jarkko Sipila's nine Takamäki-novels to be translated
into English.
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ICC's authors:
Harri Nykanen


Harri Nykanen, 57, a long-time crime journalist for the largest Finnish newspaper
Helsingin Sanomat, is now a full time author. Harri has  written nearly 30 books and
is best known for his Raid series. While Nykanen's work has been translated into
many languages,
Raid and the Blackest Sheep is the first of his novels to be published
in English. A series based on the Raid character has appeared on television in both
Finland and select U.S. markets, and a Raid movie also appeared in Finnish theaters.

Harri won the Finnish Crime novel award of the year in 1990 and 2001. The latter
award was for the Raid and Blackest Sheep novel, now published by Ice Cold Crime.