The list of 2016’s most sold foreign titles in Finland is in. At the top of the list is Lars Kepler’s stand-alone sci-fi thriller Playground. Playground is closely followed by two of Kristina Ohlsson’s newest titles, Mio’s Blues and Buried Lies, also known as the Martin Benner diptych. Ingar Johnsrud makes his mark on the list with the first installment in his Fredrik Beier series, Those Who Follow.

A “Farang” comes to Thailand for two reasons. To sunbathe – or to hide. Malin Lagerlöf's and Stefan Thunberg's new original series Farang starring Ola Rapace is set to premiere March 9 on C More.

Oscar Söderlund, the screenwriter behind the critically acclaimed TV series The Fat and The Angry (Ettor och nollor), is now in the works of writing a new thriller series together with Danish co-writer Mikkel Bak Sorensen for SVT. The project, with the working title Family Affair (Sinsimilla), will be set in Gothenburg.

The project will be presented during Göteborg International Film Festival’s TV Drama Vision days next week.

Hans Rosenfeldt is one of the creators of the incredibly successful and award-winning Scandinavian TV-series The Bridge (Bron/Broen 2011-2018). The show has aired in more than 170 countries and also been successfully remade into a US version, The Bridge (2013-2014), as well as a British/French version, The Tunnel (2013).

During his more than twenty years in the industry, Rosenfeldt has written, created and worked on a large variety of television and drama productions, such as Wallander (2009), Sebastian Bergman (2010) and The Sandhamn Murders (2012). His most recent work include creating and writing the Netflix Original series, Marcella (2016-).

In addition to being one of Sweden’s leading screenwriters, Rosenfeldt has also found success as an author. Together with Michael Hjorth, he makes up one half of the celebrated Swedish crime writing duo Hjorth & Rosenfeldt. As the authors behind the internationally bestselling series about psychological profiler Sebastian Bergman, their books have sold more than 3,5 million copies in over 30 territories worldwide.

The film adaptation of Fredrik Backman’s A Man Called Ove has been nominated for two Academy Awards in the categories ‘Best Foreign Language Film’ and ‘Best Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling’. The winners will be announced at the 89th Academy Awards on February 26th.

The Rabbit Hunter, Lars Kepler’s sixth installment in the Joona Linna series, was the Most Sold Crime Novel of 2016 in Norway.
The novel was published by Cappelen Damm in November 2016.

Bobbie Peers’ William Wenton and the Luridium Thief continues to be one of Norway’s children’s favorite books. Today the first installment in the series about the code breaking whiz William won the Children’s Book Award 2016. Seven hundred pupils in the 5th to 7th grade participated in the vote for their favorite book and author of the year.

The Sons, the stand-alone sequel to the award-winning and internationally acclaimed The Father, has been published in Sweden.

Leo is wiping up the blood in the hallway. He’s fourteen and cleaning up after his dad for the last time. They’re on their own now. He will be taking care of his younger brothers while their father is in jail and mother in the hospital. And he knows how to do it. He’ll put on a disguise and do his first heist.

Years later, the gates to the prison open and Leo is free once more. He’s paid his dues for the series of brutal bank robberies he carried out in the past. Now he has one goal: to commit the perfect crime and reclaim that which doesn’t exist – the money that society forgot.

This time he won’t involve his brothers, won’t leave any traces leading back to him. But then it happens: the mistake that opens a window for Detective John Broncks and changes the rules of the game permanently. If you pull my brother into it, I’ll take you and yours to hell.

Stefan Ahnhem’s Eighteen Below Zero has shot up to No. 3 on Der Spiegel’s best seller list in Germany. Eighteen Below Zero is the third installment in the Fabian Risk series, and was published in Germany at the beginning of January.