‘End of Summer’ published in Sweden
Late one summer night in 1983, a five-year-old boy disappears from a remote ranch on the southern Swedish plains. The only trace he leaves behind is a shoe out in the cornfields. Despite the joined efforts of the community, the boy remains missing and rumors and suspicions run wild. When the fumbling investigation is finally closed, the sorrow and uncertainty cause the boy’s family to slowly fall to pieces.
Twenty years later, the missing boy’s older sister Veronica is guiding a group therapy session in Stockholm. Suddenly a young man joins the group and begins to share stories from his childhood, bewildering memories of a boy’s disappearance. His story is frighteningly familiar and unsettles Veronica. Reluctantly she is forced to put the fragile peace she has built at risk and return to southern Sweden and the broken family she left behind. She must find the answer to the question everyone had turned away from. What really happened that summer night?
Winner of the 2015 Swedish Academy of Crime Writers’ Award for best novel of the year, Anders de la Motte has returned with a new, chilling and atmospheric crime novel. End of Summer is a suspenseful novel about old wrongs and deeply buried family secrets.
‘Watching You’ No. 1 in Germany
Arne Dahl’s Watching You has shot to No. 1 on Der Spiegel’s best seller list in Germany. Watching You is the first novel in a new series featuring Detective Inspector Sam Berger and Security Service infiltrator Molly Blom.
Fredrik Backman on The New York Times Best Seller List
Fredrik Backman’s My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry rises to No. 8 in its 21st week on The New York Times Best Seller List. A Man Called Ove remains a steady No. 3 in its 37th consecutive week on the list, and No. 8 on the combined print and ebook list.
‘Real American Jeans’ No. 1 in Sweden
Real American Jeans, the sixth installment in Jan Guillou’s the Great Century series, is the No. 1 best selling novel on the Swedish bestseller list for August.
‘In Dust and Ashes’ published in Norway
In 2001, three year old Dina is killed in a tragic car accident. Not long thereafter Dina’s mother dies under mysterious circumstances, and Dina’s father Jonas is convicted of her murder.
In 2016, the cold case ends up on the desk of Detective Henrik Holme, who tries to convince his mentor Hanne Wilhelmsen that the father might have been wrongly convicted. Holme and Wilhelmsen discover that the case could be connected to the suicide of an eccentric blogger as well as the kidnapping of the grandson of a EuroJackpot millionaire.
In Dust and Ashes is the tenth and final installment in Anne Holt’s successful series featuring Police Detective Hanne Wilhelmsen.
‘Lotus’ Blues’ No. 1 in Iceland
Lotus’ Blues, the first installment in Kristina Ohlsson’s heart-stopping diptych about Martin Benner, is the No. 1 best selling novel on the Icelandic bestseller list for August.
Fredrik Backman on The New York Times and Der Spiegel’s Best Seller Lists
Fredrik Backman’s My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry comes in at No. 9 in its 20th week on The New York Times Best Seller List. A Man Called Ove meanwhile celebrates its 36th consecutive week on the paperback list, appearing at No. 3. The novel also features on the combined print and ebook list at No. 6.
The novels make an equally strong showing in Germany, where A Man Called Ove has now been on on Der Spiegel’s bestseller list for 59 weeks. While A man Called Ove is this week’s No. 9, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry continues to hold its No. 4 position.
‘William Wenton and the Cryptoportal’ published in Norway
William is back at the Institute for Post-Human Research, where everything seems to have changed for the harsher. Everywhere you turn there are guards, curfews and strict new rules. The cause lies frozen in the cellar of the Institute: Abraham Talley, the man who not long ago almost killed William. But something’s not quite right… Who is the mysterious lady trying to contact William at night, and what is the cause of the seizures he’s suddenly having? And what on earth is a cryptoportal?
William Wenton and the Cryptoportal is the second installment in Bobbie Peers’ delightfully innovative and action-packed series about William Wenton and his friend Iscia.
‘A Man Called Ove’ chosen as Sweden’s Oscar contribution
The feature film adaptation of Fredrik Backman’s internationally bestselling debut novel A Man Called Ove is Sweden’s contribution to the 89th Academy Awards. A Man Called Ove was chosen by the Swedish Film Institute, who each year announces Sweden’s candidate for the Oscars. The Academy Awards’ official shortlist for ‘Best Foreign Language Film’ will be announced on January 24th.
‘Pyromaniac’ to premiere at Toronto International Film Festival
Pyromaniac, a feature film adapted for the screen by Bjørn Olaf Johannessen and directed by Erik Skjoldbjærg, has been selected to have its international premiere at Toronto International Film Festival, September 8th-18th, 2016.
Pyromaniac has also been chosen as one of the feature fiction films to be recommended as a nominee for the European Film Awards 2016, and is one of three films short-listed as Norway’s official contender for the 2016 Academy Awards in the category ‘Best Foreign Film’.
Based on the prizewinning novel Before I Burn by Norwegian author Gaute Heivoll, Pyromaniac, explores the mind of a young arsonist haunting a rural community.