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Follow the nursery rhyme

Keisari Seisoo Palatsissaan (The Emperor Stands in His Palace) (1971) by Eeva Tenhunen

July 27, 2024 by drmllz 4 Comments

Bingo square ‘Golden’: A famous author’s literary legacy looms large–and lucrative.  It is criminal that the work of Eeva Tenhunen (1937-2017) is out of print and untranslated. Described in her day (she published her novels between 1964 and 1987) as ‘Finland’s Agatha Christie’, you can see the influence of the English Golden Age of detective fiction: a country house and its rituals, a disruptive outsider, and a seething bubbling crucible of familial and marital tensions, class and political differences, and deep dark secrets. Tenhunen swaps […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: CBR16, cbr16bingo, crime fiction, drmllz, Eeva Tenhunen, Finnish crime fiction, Finnish novels, golden square, untranslated

drmllz's CBR16 Review No:6 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: CBR16, cbr16bingo, crime fiction, drmllz, Eeva Tenhunen, Finnish crime fiction, Finnish novels, golden square, untranslated ·
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