{"id":43,"date":"2017-02-21T02:24:54","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T00:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jarkkosipila.com\/en\/?page_id=43"},"modified":"2018-05-30T15:28:07","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T12:28:07","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jarkkosipila.com\/en\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"western\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-44\" src=\"https:\/\/jarkkosipila.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/02\/jara3b-211.jpg\" alt=\"jarkko-sipil\u00e4\" width=\"211\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jarkkosipila.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/02\/jara3b-211.jpg 211w, https:\/\/jarkkosipila.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/02\/jara3b-211-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/jarkkosipila.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/02\/jara3b-211-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Jarkko Sipil\u00e4 is a Finnish journalist and author of the Helsinki Homicide-series. He has written over 20 crime novels since\u00a01996. In the signature police procedural -series, his protagonist is Lieutenant Detective Kari Takamaki at the Helsinki Police Violent Crimes Unit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Takamaki, unlike some Nordic fictional police characters is not a boozing wildcat, but the ultimate professional\u00a0who directs his team to track down criminals in an organized fashion.<\/p>\n<p>By 2018 Sipila has published eighteen Takamaki-novels in Finnish. Six have been translated into English in the Helsinki Homicide -series. Also, two of his books are available in\u00a0German and so far one in Italian.<\/p>\n<p>Dark side of Helsinki was published in 2018. It tells true stories from the darker side of Helsinki&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p>Jarkko Sipila has worked a crime reporter since 1991 and is now is the head of Crime News unit at the Finnish Channel 3 TV News.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Helsinki Homicide - Crime in Helsinki?\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U5mNsci_stI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jarkko Sipil\u00e4 is a Finnish journalist and author of the Helsinki Homicide-series. He has written over 20 crime novels since\u00a01996. In the signature police procedural -series, his protagonist is Lieutenant Detective Kari Takamaki at the Helsinki Police Violent Crimes Unit. Takamaki, unlike some Nordic fictional police characters is not a boozing wildcat, but the ultimate &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jarkkosipila.com\/en\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Home&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-43","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jarkkosipila.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jarkkosipila.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jarkkosipila.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jarkkosipila.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jarkkosipila.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/jarkkosipila.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88,"href":"https:\/\/jarkkosipila.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43\/revisions\/88"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jarkkosipila.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}