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.

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.

To watch the scene, click “Read more” below.

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.”

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”.

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.

Niklas Natt och Dag (b. 1979) debuted as an author with the historical literary novel 1793. Natt och Dag himself has an undeniable connection to Swedish history, being a member of the oldest surviving noble family in Sweden. When he isn’t writing or reading, Natt och Dag enjoys playing the guitar, mandolin, violin, or the Japanese bamboo flute, shakuhachi.
Niklas Natt och Dag lives in Stockholm with his wife and their two sons.

Operation Mummy, the twelfth installment in Jørn Lier Horst & Hans Jørgen Sandnes’ Detective Agency No. 2 series, is now out in Norwegian bookstores!

The Riverton Museum is planning an exhibit on ancient Egypt, and the crowning attraction will be a several-thousand-year-old mummy. But during the preparations a series of accidents occur. Could the rumors be true – is the mummy cursed? Or is someone out to sabotage the exhibit?

Jørn Lier Horst & Hans Jørgen Sandnes’ Detective Agency No. 2 series is crime fiction for the youngest – clever, engaging, and full of thrills! Join our heroes Tiril, Oliver and their dog Ocho as they solve mysteries that have even the adults of Riverton scratching their heads.

Bonnie and Charles are on the run and they have chosen Shadow Cove to hide in. The small town is home to Bonnie’s grandmother, who lives right next to an old lighthouse on top of a cliff. The children soon realize that Shadow Cove and the lighthouse have some dark secrets. A boy has gone missing in town and is nowhere to be found. There’s whispers of a terrible legend – a headless Avenger that haunts the living from beyond the grave. And one night Bonnie sees the lighthouse flash, despite her grandmother’s claim that it hasn’t been in use for over a hundred years.

The children decide to solve the mystery of the lighthouse and the missing boy. But can Bonnie and Charles do it alone? Who in Shadow Cove can they trust?

Kristina Ohlsson is one of Sweden’s most successful authors. The Mystery on Eagle’s Cliff is her latest stand-alone children’s suspense novel.