{"title": "Joona Linna and Nordic Noir | Lars Kepler | Negotiator 159", "titleOriginal": "Joona Linna Nordic Noir | Lars Kepler | Negotiator 159", "episodeNumber": "159", "guest": "Alexander Ahndoril, Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril", "publishedAt": "2022-11-05", "duration": "35:45", "durationIso": "PT35M45S", "youtube": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxxtpLCJun0", "fiCanonical": "https://www.neuvottelija.fi/fi/episodes/227-joona-linna-nordic-noir-lars-kepler-negotiator-159", "originalLanguage": "en", "format": "full", "topics": ["leadership_governance"], "description": "Alexander Ahndoril and Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril, who write together as Lars Kepler, explain why writing as a couple required inventing a third author entirely, and how they were eventually tracked down to their summer house by torchlight. The Finnish detective Joona Linna was created out of a wish to put a Finnish hero at the centre of Swedish crime fiction at a time when Finns were not well regarded there, with Väinö Linna's Rokka as the model. The couple also open up where Jurek Walter came from, the one idea they felt The Silence of the Lambs had left unused, and why researching real serial killers turned out to be too bleak to use as material. The idea for The Spider was found in a Småland forest in the pandemic summer of 2020. Recorded in English.", "chapters": [], "sourceTranscriptType": "none", "subtitleMethod": "none", "provenance": "Owner page assembled from YouTube metadata and the neuvottelija.fi episode record. This episode was recorded in English, so this page is the original-language edition and the Finnish one is the translation. No chapter marks are published here: the publisher's list holds only two marks, at 0:00 and 0:46, and it is a split of the show-note text rather than a chapter list, so republishing it would assert timestamps that do not hold. No transcript is published either — the channel has no published caption track for this episode. The episode was recorded around the publication of The Spider and is promotional in that respect; the guests are the two people behind the Lars Kepler pen name and are credited here under their own names.", "coreTheses": ["The pen name was not marketing: two authors writing one voice needed a third identity that belonged to neither of them.", "Joona Linna is a deliberate corrective — a Finnish hero placed at the centre of Swedish crime fiction at a moment when that was an unlikely choice.", "Jurek Walter exists because the authors thought The Silence of the Lambs had left one idea on the table, and the character is their answer to it.", "They stopped researching real serial killers because the material was unusable, which says something about where the genre's realism actually stops."], "slug": "ep159-joona-linna-ja-nordic-noir-lars-kepler", "guestsCanonical": ["Alexander Ahndoril", "Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril"], "guestPages": ["https://www.neuvottelija.com/podcast/guests/alexander-ahndoril/", "https://www.neuvottelija.com/podcast/guests/alexandra-coelho-ahndoril/"], "page": "https://www.neuvottelija.com/podcast/episodes/ep159-joona-linna-ja-nordic-noir-lars-kepler/", "markdown": "https://www.neuvottelija.com/podcast/episodes/ep159-joona-linna-ja-nordic-noir-lars-kepler/index.md", "captions": null, "transcript": null, "videoId": "qxxtpLCJun0", "dbId": null, "qaCoveragePct": 0.0, "qaSemanticVerdict": "metadata_only", "aiArticleEn": "https://www.neuvottelija.com/ai/ep159-joona-linna-ja-nordic-noir-lars-kepler/", "aiArticleFi": "https://www.neuvottelija.fi/yhteiskunta/ep159-joona-linna-ja-nordic-noir-lars-kepler/"}