The Ulvila Killing, on the first of December 2006 in a suburb of the Finnish town of Pori, is the most famous 'cold case' in the country's history of crime.

In 'Zem, or the Skill to Catch a Killer', this bizar event is seen from a new perspective: as being part of the political developments of those days.

The title refers to an episode of Twin Peaks, with Zen turning into Zem and the scenery from the American Far West to a remote corner of Northern Europe. But the people in this book are subj...

The first, non-commercial version of A One Hundred Year Old Baby was written on the occasion of Finland’s centennial, in 2017. Today, with three more years having gone by, there is every reason to launch it in a serious way. Because optimism pours itself our way as if it were the Rio fucking Grande!

For the first time since World War II, this planeth’s by far dullest birthday party – the so-called Independence Day Reception in the Helsinki presidential palace – has been cancelled. Glo...