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Anna Fekete Series by Kati Hiekkapelto
Kati Hiekkapelto

By David Swatling. Add to that an environmental and human rights activist. So it should be no shock that her books include subversive and provocative storylines, as they take on heated topical social issues with prose that is both edgy and elegant. Little wonder she has fast become a rising star on the Nordic Noir literary horizon. Third time lucky? The winner will be announced on May 20 at CrimeFest in Bristol.
Scandinavian crime fiction carries on booming, but the Finns are settled there just on the edge. Kati Hiekkapelto and Antti Tuomainen are changing all of that. We decided to ask her more about her books…. Can you tell us about The Defenceless in a nutshell? The Defenceless is a story of undocumented migration, drugs and gangs. But the most important aspect for me as a crime writer is a good murder story! They are independent stories.

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No catches, no fine print just unadulterated book loving, with your favourite books saved to your own digital bookshelf. Kati Hiekkapelto was born in in Oulu, Finland. She wrote her first stories at the age of two and recorded them on cassette tapes. The main characters in these early tales were elephants, elves and little girls, so she's moved on a little from that. Kati worked as a local private detective between and , and solved many serious crimes committed by her neighbours. By the age of twelve she had read all Agatha Christie's novels, and was sure that her mother is going to poison her. In she had a bad hairdresser experience and became a punker.

I am Kati Hiekkapelto, an author from Finland. I also write columns for a couple newspapers, lyrics for my punk band and some of my short stories have been published in a Finnish literary magazine. I have a stage play for the theatre in progress, too. I could probably write any type of fiction at the literary end of the scale , I suppose. The thing for me is to write.
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I will also be meeting her there for an exclusive interview for Shots Magazine.