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As the publishers remind, she writes detectives with Grietēna’s name, but with the real she creates documentaries about Latvian theater personalities. The author has also received the Great Readers’ Award (2013) in the category “Documentary and Scientifically Popular Original Literature” for the book “From Zenta to Zenta” (“Zvaigzne ABC”).
Gretena also wrote the following works: “Not always a tomcat pot or Leo and lions”, “When all the ropes are missing or Assassination at the Burgte Theater”, “Who digs the other hole or the secret of the Blue Shoes”, “Death in London”, “Polonaise with the President” others, a total of nearly twenty books, several of which have been reissued. The main characters in her detective novels are unchanged: the industrious and curious Margo, her friend, later her husband Ivo, Margo’s girlfriend and sometimes ally Solveiga. Also this time, the homemade amateur detective Margo, created by the writer, is investigating the murder of a TV star.
According to the publishers, in parallel with the detective line, the daily course of the characters is depicted as a background and relief (as in most literature of this genre). Unlike many other criminals, where the private life of investigators has almost never succeeded, Jēruma portrays his heroes as balanced people who live a harmonious, orderly life, of course, giving them an interesting “stroke of strangeness”.
Margarita Grietēna or Inga Jēruma admits: “I have always liked detective literature. From time to time I read through a detective written by a Russian lady, I always gasped: it is unfortunate that Latvians do not really have such fixed reading material to waste time on the train, in the hairdresser or at the dentist’s office. . “
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