‘End of Summer’ No. 1 in Sweden
Anders de la Motte’s End of Summer is No. 1 on the official Swedish bestseller list for September, in the paperback category. End of Summer is the first installment in de la Motte’s new series of stand-alone suspense novels set in southern Sweden.
‘Eighteen Below Zero’ No. 1 in Norway
Stefan Ahnhem’s Eighteen Below Zero jumps up to No. 1 in its second week on the official Norwegian bestseller list for paperback novels. Eighteen Below Zero is the third installment in the internationally bestselling Fabian Risk series.
Jo Nesbø and Arne Dahl No. 2 in Germany
Jo Nesbø’s The Thirst remains at No. 2 for the third week in a row on Der Spiegel’s bestseller list for hardcover fiction. Arne Dahl’s Hinterlands also keeps its No. 2 spot on the paperback list. This is Hinterlands’ fifth week on the list.
‘Watching You’ and ‘Hinterlands’ on Danish bestseller lists
Arne Dahl’s Watching You and Hinterlands, the first and second installments in the Berger & Blom series, have claimed spots on Danish bestseller lists. At Arnold Busck, Denmark’s biggest book store chain, Hinterlands comes in at No. 5 on the crime fiction list while Watching You is found at No. 7 on the paperback list. At Bog & idé, Denmark’s biggest book retailer, Watching You is No. 1 on the paperback list and Hinterlands takes the No. 6 spot on the fiction list. Hinterlands was published in Denmark just last week.
‘Eighteen Below Zero’ No. 5 in Norway
Stefan Ahnhem’s Eighteen Below Zero has gone straight to No. 5 on the official Norwegian bestseller list for paperbacks. The novel, the third installment in the Fabian Risk series, was published as paperback just last week in Norway.
Jo Nesbø and Arne Dahl No. 2 in Germany
Jo Nesbø’s The Thirst is No. 2 also this week on Der Spiegel’s bestseller list for hardcover fiction. Arne Dahl’s Hinterlands stays at No. 2 on the paperback list as well. This is The Thirst’s second week on the list, and Hinterlands’ fourth.
First scene of ‘Jordskott II’ released
The first scene of Jordskott season two has been released. The season, written by Aron Levander among others, will premiere on October 15, 2017, on Swedish public broadcasting company SVT.
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Detective Agency No. 2 film shoot starts today
Today is the first date of shooting for Operation Shadowman, the film based on the immensely popular and No. 1 bestselling Norwegian children’s book series by Jørn Lier Horst & Hans Jørgen Sandnes, Detective Agency No. 2.
The film, which will be based on the book Operation Shadowman, will be produced by Filmkameratene in collaboration with Zefyr Media Fund. Grethe Bøe-Waal, the award-winning scriptwriter and director of Operation Arctic, has written the script and will be directing.
Jørn Lier Horst: “Detective Agency No. 2 and Operation Shadowman is the first thing I’ve written that will be adapted for film. It’s going to be a thrill, but I have great faith in Filmkameratene. It will probably be most thrilling of all for those sitting in the movie theater.”
‘Mammon II’ nominated for an International Emmy Award
The second season of Mammon, written and created by Gjermund Stenberg Eriksen together with Vegard Stenberg Eriksen, was today nominated for an International Emmy Award in the category ‘Best Drama’. The 45th International Emmy Awards will take place on November 20, 2017.
Mammon (2014-2016), first aired by Norwegian public broadcasting company NRK, has become an internationally acclaimed show with great reviews as well as an average of 1.3 million viewers per episode, the second highest TSR-rating on NRK to that date. The Guardian proclaimed the show to be “Exactly what you want from Scandinavian quality crime”.
‘1793’ published in Sweden
The year is 1793. More than a year has passed since the death of Gustav III of Sweden and the nation is ruled with an iron fist by lord of the realm Gustaf Adolf Reuterholm. In the wake of the old king’s passing, trust has turned into a sparse commodity. Paranoia and whispered conspiracies can be found at every corner.
A mutilated body is discovered in the malodorous waters of Fatburen Lake on the island of Södermalm. Missing both its legs and arms, the body has been disfigured beyond recognition. Though Cecil Winge at the Stockholm Police is himself marked for an early death by consumption, he takes on the case of solving the mystery of the Fatburen corpse. Cecil soon finds himself entangled in a web of dark secrets and boundless evil, a web with threads reaching all the way to the upper echelons of Stockholm society.
In his debut novel 1793, Niklas Natt och Dag paints a compelling portrait of late 18th century Stockholm. Through the eyes of the novel’s four narrators the powdered and painted veneer of the era is peeled back to reveal the frightful yet fascinating reality hidden beyond the dry facts of history texts. With one foot firmly planted in literary tradition and the other in hardboiled suspense literature, Natt och Dag has with 1793 created an entirely new genre of suggestive and realistic historical noir.