Katrine Engberg’s The Tenant is yet again No. 1 on the official Swedish bestseller list for paperbacks, coming in at the top for the fourth week in a row. The hardcover list meanwhile sees Jonas Bonnier land a No. 3 placement with The Day of the Lord, and Niklas Natt och Dag appear at No. 4 with 1794. Natt och Dag’s debut title, The Wolf and the Watchman, comes in at No. 4 on the audio list. It is closely followed by Anne Holt’s A Grave For Two, which is No. 5 in audio as well as e-books. The No. 4 spot on the e-book list goes to Anders Roslund and Knock Knock.

The official bestseller lists for week 11 in Norway are out, and the No. 1 spot on the paperback list goes to Jørn Lier Horst & Thomas Enger’s Smoke Screen. Horst also features on the hardcover list, where his and Hans Jørgen Sandnes’ Operation Trickster is No. 4.

Porcelain Dolls, the latest title from Erik Axl Sund, rockets to No. 5 on Der Spiegel’s bestseller list for trade paperbacks in Germany.

In the Finnish comedy series Carpe Fucking Diem! we meet two women in their thirties, Karla (Lotta Kaihua) and Miina (Ella Lahdenmäki). They move in together and write a to do-list for a gap year: form a rock band, say what you think, do drugs, don't fall in love, grow spiritually, save the world and have sex.

Carpe Fucking Diem! is written by Kirsikka Saari and Jenni Toivoniemi, directed by Kirsikka Saari and Selma Vilhunen.

Carpe Fucking Diem! will premiere April 2 on C More Finland.

Stefan Ahnhem’s X Ways to Die, the fifth installment in the Fabian Risk series, comes in at No. 3 on retailer Arnold Busck’s bestseller list for crime fiction this week. Arne Dahl’s Friheten, the fourth installment in the Berger & Blom series, comes in at No. 2 on retailer Saxo’s audiobook list, and at No. 4 on their e-book list this week.

In the upcoming season, Rebecka Martinsson has moved into her grandmother’s house in Kurravaara, where she now works as a prosecutor. The relocation to her childhood home forces Rebecka to face her past. What really happened to her as a child, when she decided to leave her father and move in with her grandmother? While Rebecka wrestles with her past, we get to follow her as she heedlessly throws herself into case after case.

Season 2 is written by Karin Arrhenius and Oskar Söderlund, freely based on Åsa Larssons’s novels, and directed by Fredrik Edfeldt and Andrea Östlund.

The crime drama series will premiere April 27 on C More and May 6 on TV4.

Katrine Engberg's The Tenant continues to reign the paperback list, claiming the No. 1 spot also this week. Niklas Natt och Dag's debut novel The Wolf and the Watchman nabs the No. 5 spot on the same list, while the hardcover list sees Natt och Dag's succeeding novel 1794 in the No. 4 position. The hardcover list also features Jonas Bonnier's The Day of the Lord, which comes in at No. 5.

Anders Roslund meanwhile is No. 2 on the e-book list with his crime fiction novel Knock Knock, accompanied by Anne Holt's A Grave For Two at No. 3 and Natt och Dag's The Wolf and the Watchman at No. 4.

The Norwegian bestseller list for hardcovers in week 10 sees Jørn Lier Horst and Hans Jørgen Sandnes’ Operation Trickster claim the No. 4 spot. The paperback equivalent also features Horst, this time with Smokescreen, the second installment in the Blix & Ramm series which he has co-written with Thomas Enger. The title nabs the No. 2 placement.

Screenwriter Ludvig Lundström is an up-and-coming talent with an unusual amount of experience to his name. Despite his young age, Lundström has already worked with numerous Swedish production companies, developed his own original ideas, and worked as storyline and episodic writer. He is especially drawn to suspenseful and psychological dramas depicting moral taboos from the anti-hero’s perspective, with an element of dark humor.

Lundström started writing and creating his original ideas while still in law school. His work soon caught the eyes of production companies and he decided to pursue his true passion and become a full-time writer. In 2018-2019 Lundström studied screenwriting at the renowned Alma Löv Script Academy.

Lundström recently worked on the hit TV show Black Lake, and currently has several projects in-development, including a feature film together with director Mani Maserrat and a TV series for Meter and Viaplay.