Hjorth & Rosenfeldt, Jørn Lier Horst and Hedvig Montgomery on the Norwegian bestseller lists

The official bestseller lists for week 10 in Norway see Hjorth & Rosenfeldt dominate in several categories, claiming five spots in total. Their latest novel, A Higher Justice, places the highest and comes in at No. 2 on the e-book list.

Jørn Lier Horst & Hans Jørgen Sandnes’ fifteenth Detective Agency No. 2 title, Operation Sable Forest, stays on the hardcover list and claims the No. 5 spot this week. Hedvig Montgomery meanwhile climbs the non-fiction list, landing at No. 4 with Parental Magic.

Niklas Natt och Dag’s ‘The Wolf and the Watchman’ No. 5 in Germany

Niklas Natt och Dag’s debut novel The Wolf and the Watchman is No. 5 on Der Spiegel’s weekly bestseller list for paperbacks. The Wolf and the Watchman was published in Germany this March.

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‘Rebecka Martinsson’ renewed for a second season

TV4 and C More have announced the renewal of Rebecka Martinsson for a second season. The popular crime drama series, based on Åsa Larsson’s novels revolving around lawyer Rebecka Martinsson, is produced by Yellow Bird.

Karin Arrhenius and Oskar Söderlund are the writers for the second season and Fredrik Edfeldt has assumed the role of concept director. Actress Sascha Zacharias (Modus, Beck) has taken over the role of protagonist Rebecka Martinsson. The series is currently filming and the premiere is slated for 2020 on TV4 and C More.

The weekly Swedish bestseller lists

The official Swedish bestseller lists for week 9 are out, and Lars Kepler’s Lazarus comes in at No. 1 on the hardcover list, having moved up one position from last week. Jonas Gardell’s In Memory of an Unconditional Love grabs spot No. 3 on the same list, followed by Hjorth & Rosenfeldt’s A Higher Justice, which comes in at No. 4.

Stina Jackson and Niklas Natt och Dag occupy multiple positions on this week’s lists. Stina Jackson’s The Silver Road stays in the top positions, placing at No. 1 on the e-book list, No. 2 on the paperback list and No. 3 on the audio one. Niklas Natt och Dag’s The Wolf and the Watchman places at No. 4 on both the audio- and e-book lists and comes in at No. 5 on the paperback one. Liza Marklund’s Black Pearl Farm holds spot No. 3 on the e-book list.

Lastly, in the non-fiction category, Leif GW Persson’s memoir Master Detective Willy: the Story of My Career, comes in at No. 2.

The February bestseller lists in Sweden

Lars Kepler’s Lazarus occupies multiple list positions on the February lists, coming in at No. 1 on the hardcover list, No. 3 on the e-book list and No. 5 on the audio book one. Jonas Gardell’s lauded In Memory of an Unconditional Love grabs the No. 3 spot on the hardcover list for February, closely followed by Hjorth & Rosenfeld’s A Higher Justice at No. 4 and Liza Marklund’s Black Pearl Farm at No. 5.

Stina Jackson nabs three positions on the monthly lists with her debut The Silver Road, coming in at No. 1 on both the audio- and e-book lists and No. 2 on the paperback one. Niklas Natt och Dag claims spot No. 4 on the paperback list with The Wolf and the Watchman.

Finally we have the non-fiction category, in which Leif GW Persson’s Master Detective Willy: the Story of My Career comes in at No. 2.

‘Operation Sable Forest’, ‘Parental Magic’ and ‘A Higher Justice’ on the Norwegian bestseller lists

Jørn Lier Horst & Hans Jørgen Sandnes’ latest Detective Agency No. 2 title, Operation Sable Forest, claims the No. 3 spot on the official weekly hardcover bestseller list in Norway. Hedvig Montgomery’s Parental Magic comes in at No. 5 on the non-fiction list and Hjorth & Rosenfeldt shoot to No. 1 on the e-book list with A Higher Justice.

The February bestseller list for children’s fiction in Norway

Jørn Lier Horst again nabs two of the top five spots on the official list for most sold children’s books in Norway this February. Horst & Hans Jørgen Sandnes’ Operation Sable Forest, the fifteenth Detective Agency No. 2 book, comes in first at No. 1. It’s followed by the thirteenth book in the CLUE series, The Smuggler’s Shack, which comes in at No. 4, staying put at the same position also this month.

Salomonsson Agency catalogue for Spring 2019 now available

To see Salomonsson Agency’s catalogue for Spring 2019, click the “Download our latest catalogue” link further down on the right-hand side of this page.

‘All the Air That Surrounds Us’ published in Sweden

Tom Malmquist’s All the Air That Surrounds Us is a haunting deep dive into an unsolved murder and the author’s own relation to the hidden killer behind the murder: loneliness and alienation. With his signature vibrating, sensitive prose Tom uncovers the story of Mikael K, a young man whose life was brutally ended in a cave one night in 1991. When Tom finds an old newspaper notice about the murder, he’s instantly pulled back in time to his childhood, and as he starts to investigate what really happened to Mikael K, Tom begins to see parallels to his own life. The case turns into an obsession. Who was Mikael K? And why did he have to die?

All the Air That Surrounds Us is a story of alienation, loneliness, transience, and the year that was 1991.

Rebecca Hall to star in ‘Tales From The Loop’

Rebecca Hall (Vicky Christina Barcelona) is set to play the female lead in Tales From the Loop, the TV series based on Simon Stålenhag’s debut work of the same title.

The eight episode series will explore the town and people who live above “The Loop,” a machine built to unlock and explore the mysteries of the universe, making things possible that were previously relegated only to science fiction. In this fantastical, mysterious town, poignant human tales are told that bare universal emotional experiences while drawing on the intrigue of genre storytelling. The Golden Globe-nominated Rebecca Hall will play the character of Loretta, a gifted physicist.

Tales From the Loop will be co-produced by Amazon Studios and Fox 21 Television Studios. Writer Nathaniel Halpern (Legion) will serve as showrunner and executive producer for the series, and Mark Romanek (Never Let Me Go) will direct the pilot.

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