Yrsa Sigurdardóttir’s stand-alone thriller Why Did You Lie has been selected by The Sunday Times as their Crime Book of the Month. The British newspaper calls the novel “a tour de force,” applauding Sigurdardóttir for her brilliant handling of the different plot strands and how she brings them together in “an unforgettable climax.”

At a hospital in Oslo, Superintendent Fredrik Beier is slowly regaining consciousness. Painkillers and alcohol, or so the doctor tells him. The recipe of a suicide attempt. But Fredrik himself can’t seem to recall any of it.

A widow has gone missing, and in her home the police find the body of a recently deceased man. The remains are identified as belonging to someone declared dead over twenty years ago. Meanwhile, the sewer rats in eastern Oslo are feasting on a second body. A tragic past connects the two, forged during the days following the fall of the Soviet Union and an operation that ended in catastrophe. Now, a forgotten weapon has been brought back to life, and fallen into the hands of an avenger with nothing left to live for.

Ingar Johnsrud’s As We Fall is a thriller that slips into the deepest crannies of the human soul only to then infiltrate the headquarters of this world’s major powers. As We Fall is the second harrowing installment in the series about Fredrik Beier and Kafa Iqbal.

A Man Called Ove, Fredrik Backman’s debut novel, is No. 4 on the New York Times Best Seller List. It is the novel’s 32nd consecutive week on the bestseller list, and it’s joined by My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry at No. 10. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry has now been on the bestseller list for 16 consecutive weeks.

Maj Sjöwall has been awarded the Crimetime Specsavers’ Honorary Award 2016. The newly established award is to be presented to authors who have acted as pioneers in Swedish crime literature and put Sweden on the international crime fiction map.

“It is a great honor to be the first to receive this award, given that there are now quite many Swedish mystery writers,” says a happy Maj Sjöwall. The award ceremony, which Maj Sjöwall will also be attending, is to be held on August 20th in Visby, during the closing performance of the Crimetime Gotland Festival, Sweden’s biggest crime literature festival.

Jørn Lier Horst and Hans Jørgen Sandnes’ The Search for the Queen of the Jungle is this summer’s most sold children’s book in Norway. The activity book, which features the gang from the Detective Agency No. 2 series, is joined on the list by a book from the original series, Operation Circus. The ninth installment in the series, Operation Circus keeps its No. 3 spot from last month’s list.

Fredrik Backman’s My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry comes in at No. 8 in its 15th week on The New York Times Best Seller List for paperback novels. A Man Called Ove remains a steady No. 4 in its 31st consecutive week on the list, and No. 10 on the combined print and ebook list.

Liza Marklund has been chosen as the winner of Radio Bremen’s Crime Award (Krimipreis) 2016. The annual award will be presented to Liza Marklund for her novel The Final Word, the 11th and final installment in her series about crime reporter Annika Bengtzon. The jury of Radio Bremen praises the novel, calling it a “gripping political thriller” and lauds Marklund for her knowledgeable descriptions of current changes in the Swedish media landscape. The award ceremony will take place on September 26th in Bremen.

Previous winners of Radio Bremen’s Crime Award include Arne Dahl (2010).

Fredrik Backman’s My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry is No. 6 on the New York Times Best Seller List in its 14th week on the list. A Man Called Ove, Backman’s debut novel, comes in at No. 4. As A Man Called Ove celebrates its 30th consecutive week on the paperback list, it also climbs the the combined print and eBook list, leaping up to No. 7.

Fredrik Backman’s My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry and A Man Called Ove continue to feature at the top of the paperback bestseller list in Germany. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry comes in at No. 2 while A Man Called Ove celebrates its one year anniversary on the list at No. 6. The recently published Britt-Marie Was Here continues to climb the bestseller list for hardback novels.

Fredrik Backman’s novels are still going strong on The New York Times Best Seller List. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry comes in at No. 5 in its 13th week on the list, and A Man Called Ove is No. 3. This marks the 29th week for A Man Called Ove on the paperback list, but the novel also remains also a steady No. 9 in the combined print and eBook category.