[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by sufue

The first five titles in Leena Lehtolainen's Maria Kallio series, translated by AmazonCrossing, have dropped again to $1.99 at Kindle US, as part of the $2 and under sale.

Titles are:

• My First Murder
• Her Enemy
• Copper Heart
• Snow Woman
• Death Spiral

Link for all five (and a stray translation into Portugese ): https://www.amazon.com/gp/search/?se...en&price=0-200

These were recommended upthread by ATDrake in this post: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho....php?p=3346353

Opening 3 of them up for quick viewing, it appears that the translator is Owen Witesman, and not AmazonCrossing. Of course, the publisher or the agent (and in some unusual cases, the author) will actually arrange for a translation. In extremely rare cases - as in author Vladimir Nabokov - he translated his earlier work into English himself.

But the translation (again, only on 3 that I checked) are by Owen Witesman.

--- Thanks for the heads up on this author. I bought one, the first one in the series, and will give it a try. Unfortunately, there are a number of negative comments regarding the translation. And the fictional heroine is no longer a youthful 23, but an aged (and ancient and wrinkled) 49 year old crone. In fictional terms, that is!!!!