Detective Agency No. 2’s Detective’s Handbook is chock-full of pointers and advice on how to become an expert detective, teaching you everything you need to know so that you too can begin solving mysteries!

What is the first thing you need to do when solving a mystery – have you ever wondered? How do you look for clues? And how do you lift fingerprints?

There’s no age limit to being a detective. The key to uncovering evidence and finding information is all about being curious, inventive and observant. Besides which there are a whole bunch of clever methods and techniques you can use. All of which you can learn here, in the Detective’s Handbook.

Leif GW Persson is the winner of the CWA International Dagger 2017 for his The Dying Detective. The Crime Writers Association’s (CWA) Dagger awards are the most prestigious literary awards in Europe, and have been synonymous with quality crime writing for over fifty years. The first Dagger was handed out in 1955, less than two years after the Association was founded.

Stefan Ahnhem and his Eighteen Below Zero is No. 1 also this week on the official Norwegian bestseller list for paperbacks. Eighteen Below Zero is the third installment in the Fabian Risk series.

Thomas Engström’s East of the Abyss, Anders de la Motte’s Deeds of Fall, and Roslund & Thunberg’s The Sons have been shortlisted for the 2017 Swedish Academy of Crime Writers’ Award for ‘Best Swedish Crime Novel’.

The winning author and novel will be announced on November 26th.

Thomas Engström’s award-winning novel about Ludwig Licht, former Stasi agent and CIA informant, is to be made into a TV series for the international market.

West of Liberty, the title of both novel and TV series, takes place in among else Berlin, where the arrest of the corrupt leader of a whistleblowing site has thrown the city into turmoil. Clive Barner, chief of the CIA’s Berlin office and Ludwig Licht’s old contact when he worked as a double agent in the 1970s, calls in Licht. The former informant turned barkeep and freelance problem solver has to pray his old skills haven’t rusted as he’s pulled back into the shadow world of those who make a living finding – and killing for – intelligence.

The TV series will consist of six episodes of 45 minutes. Sara Heldt and Donna Sharp have written the script, and Barbara Eder will direct when shooting starts in spring 2018. Producers are Anagram Sverige AB and Network Movie (Germany). The TV series is already sold to YLE in Finland and TV2 in Norway.