Indrek Hargla is one of Estonia's best-known and most prolific crime writers. Hargla's Apothecary Melchior Mysteries, set in fifteenth-century Tallinn and starring a detective pharmacist named Melchior Wakenstede, have been translated into five languages, adapted for stage and were the basis for a popular Estonian film trilogy. He is also a screenwriter and an award-winning writer of science fiction and fantasy. Originally a senior lawyer in the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hargla has been a full-time writer since 2012. Christopher Moseley is a translator from Estonian, Latvian, Finnish and the Scandinavian languages. After nineteen years' service at the BBC, he became a freelance translator and editor in 2005. He has translated novels from Estonian by Andrus Kivirähk, Ilmar Taska, and most recently A.H. Tammsaare.

Those seeking a richly textured, intricately detailed, meticulously researched mystery...may have found their quarry

Indrek Hargla is one of Estonia's best-known and most prolific crime writers. Hargla's Apothecary Melchior Mysteries, set in fifteenth-century Tallinn and starring a detective pharmacist named Melchior Wakenstede, have been translated into five languages, adapted for stage and were the basis for a popular Estonian film trilogy. He is also a screenwriter and an award-winning writer of science fiction and fantasy. Originally a senior lawyer in the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hargla has been a full-time writer since 2012. Christopher Moseley is a translator from Estonian, Latvian, Finnish and the Scandinavian languages. After nineteen years' service at the BBC, he became a freelance translator and editor in 2005. He has translated novels from Estonian by Andrus Kivirähk, Ilmar Taska, and most recently A.H. Tammsaare.

Those seeking a richly textured, intricately detailed, meticulously researched mystery...may have found their quarry

Indrek Hargla is one of Estonia's best-known and most prolific crime writers. Hargla's Apothecary Melchior Mysteries, set in fifteenth-century Tallinn and starring a detective pharmacist named Melchior Wakenstede, have been translated into five languages, adapted for stage and were the basis for a popular Estonian film trilogy. He is also a screenwriter and an award-winning writer of science fiction and fantasy. Originally a senior lawyer in the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hargla has been a full-time writer since 2012. Christopher Moseley is a translator from Estonian, Latvian, Finnish and the Scandinavian languages. After nineteen years' service at the BBC, he became a freelance translator and editor in 2005. He has translated novels from Estonian by Andrus Kivirähk, Ilmar Taska, and most recently A.H. Tammsaare.

Those seeking a richly textured, intricately detailed, meticulously researched mystery...may have found their quarry