“This book is wonderful. It took me right in, dropped me into a strange new world, and kept me captivated from first to last page. James Thompson has done a masterful job with SNOW ANGELS!”
—Michael Connelly (New York Times-bestselling author of THE SCARECROW)
”Taut and mesmerizing! James Thompson chills and fascinates with his tale of dark [...]
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American expat Jim Thompson has launched an international writing career by publishing thrillers first in – and about – Finland.
They say Finnish is the second-hardest language in the world to learn, just after Mandarin Chinese.
Jim Thompson learned that the hard way when he followed his heart to the country nestled between Sweden and Russia and poking its northern quadrant into the Arctic Circle.
A full time novelist, Jim Thompson discusses his second novel, Snow Angels, and finding success as a foreigner in Finland.
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Choose the day 30.3.2009.
Across the Green Line (Jerusalemin veri in Finnish) will appear in paperback in bookstores around Finland beginning 1.4.2009
I just posted some reviews, but they’re all in Finnish, so I didn’t post them here on the English part of the site. If you want to take a look, just click the Finnish flag
A deal has been concluded for Snow Angels and its sequel, Dead of Winter, with French publisher Gawsewitch. This follows international sales with: Germany; Rowohlt, Spain; Roca. United States; Putnam Finland; WSOY
Author Jim Thompson has closed a two-book deal with Putnam, a major United States publisher, for Snow Angels, a crime novel set in Finnish Lapland, and its sequel, Dead of Winter. Thompson has contracted with Finnish publisher Johnny Kniga, an imprint of WSOY, for a series of thrillers and crime novels, the first of which, [...]
