Famke Janssen joins the cast of ‘The Postcard Killings’
X-Men’s Famke Janssen has joined the cast of The Postcard Killings, the movie adaptation of Liza Marklund’s and James Patterson’s bestselling crime thriller novel The Postcard Killers. The film is a chilling crime story following the hardened New York Detective Jacob Kanon, played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan (The Walking Dead, Watchmen) who is intent on capturing his daughter’s murderer. Janssen will play Valerie Kanon, the mother of their now deceased daughter. Across Europe, newlywed couples are being targeted in a string of bizarre killings that leave the young victims’ bodies looking like the murders have been staged.
Bosnian filmmaker Danis Tanovic, who won an Oscar for No Man’s Land directs the pic.
Screenplay is written by Liza Marklund and Andrew Stern.
The film, produced by Good Films Collective, began shooting in March, working across London, Norway and Stockholm.
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‘The Hypnotist – The Black Edition’
In 2009, Lars Kepler’s The Hypnotist became the start of one of Scandinavia’s most successful authorships in history. To celebrate the novel’s 10-year anniversary, Alexandra and Alexander have rewritten the labyrinthine thriller, which has to date been published in sixty countries. The Hypnotist – The Black Edition will reflect how much Lars Kepler have grown as thriller writers since their debut. The pace has been ramped up, the chapters tightened, the dialogue rewritten, new scenes have been added, and Joona Linna has been given a bigger role.
The Black Edition is the new official The Hypnotist and will replace the original book. It will be published in Sweden on June 11th, in trade paperback as well as audio and e-book.
‘The Magical Heart’ winner of Book of the Year 2018 in Norway
Kristina Ohlsson’s moving children’s book The Magical Heart has been announced as one of the two winners of the Norwegian Book of the Year 2018 award in the ‘5-7th grade’ category. The award is arranged by Stavanger bibliotek, and this year 290 school classes participated in process of reading the nominated works and then voting for their favorite.
Fredrik Backman winner of the Piraten Award
Fredrik Backman is the recipient of the 2019 Piraten Award, a prestigious Swedish culture and arts award handed out by the Fritiof Nilsson Piraten Society. Backman is the youngest author to have received the prize. The jury motivates their choice thusly:
“Since his triumphant debut, a work whose echoes still reverberate worldwide, this year’s winner has become one of our most beloved storytellers. He portrays the ordinary person and all of her hardships with warmth and empathy. He mixes humor with gravity in true Piraten spirit, and is always on the side of the weak in his depictions of our time.”
The Fritiof Nilsson Piraten Society was founded in honor of author Fritiof Nilsson Piraten and is Sweden’s largest literary society. Previous winners of the award include Peter Englund, Kristina Lugn, Leif GW Persson and Gösta Ekman. The award will be handed out in July in Kivik in southern Sweden.
Lars Kepler winner of Pocisk’s Best Translated Crime Novel of 2018
Lars Kepler is the winner of the Polish crime-fiction magazine Pocisk’s award for Best Translated Crime Novel of 2018 for their sixth installment in the Joona Linna series, The Rabbit Hunter. The award was handed over to the authors during a ceremony at the Warsaw Crime Festival on May 18th.
‘Things My Son Needs to Know About the World’ on Canadian bestseller list
Fredrik Backman’s Things My Son Needs to Know About the World is on the Canadian bestseller list for original non-fiction for the second week in a row, climbing to No. 5 this week.
Fredrik Backman, Ulf Lundell and Roslund & Hellström on the Swedish bestseller lists
Week 19’s official Swedish bestseller lists see Fredrik Backman and Ulf Lundell appear at No. 3 and No. 4 on the hardcover list, Backman taking the former spot with Anxious People, and Lundell the latter with Weekdays 2. Both titles also feature on the ebook list, where Weekdays 2 is No. 3 and Anxious People is No. 5. Roslund & Hellström meanwhile come in at No. 5 on the paperback list with Three Hours.
Hedvig Montgomery and Horst & Enger No. 1 in Norway
Hedvig Montgomery and Jørn Lier Horst & Thomas Enger each snag a No. 1 spot on the official Norwegian bestseller lists for week 19 (May 6-12). Hedvig Montgomery is No. 1 on the nonfiction list with The Kindergarten Age, and Jørn Lier Horst & Thomas Enger’s Death Deserved is No. 1 on the paperback list.
‘The Wolf and the Watchman’ sold to 35 territories
Niklas Natt och Dag’s international bestseller The Wolf and the Watchman has now been sold to 35 territories! A compelling, vivid, and utterly fascinating portrait of Stockholm at the end of the 18th Century, The Wolf and the Watchman is Natt och Dag’s award-winning debut work.
Jo Nesbø and Yrsa Sigurdardóttir on Sunday Times’ list of 100 best thrillers since 1945
The Sunday Times has presented a carefully curated list of the very best crime and spy novels to be published since 1945, and among the illustrious authors and titles featured are Jo Nesbø’s The Snowman and Yrsa Sigurdardóttir’s The Silence of the Sea. Nesbø and Sigurdardóttir are joined on the list by iconic names like Agatha Christie, Ian Fleming and Henning Mankell.