BookBeat, one of the leading streaming services for audiobooks in Sweden, have announced their most-listened-to titles of 2024. The Sleepwalker by Lars Kepler, released just two months ago, secures the No. 1 spot. Kepler is also the platform’s most-listened-to author throughout the year. Meanwhile, Kristina Ohlsson’s Beyond Rescue claims the No. 3 spot among the most-listened-to titles.

The nominees for the 2024 Adlibris Awards have just been announced. Adlibris is the leading book retailer in the Nordics and the award was founded in 2019 to celebrate the site’s biggest titles. The nominated works have been selected by a jury of Adlibris employees, but the winners will be voted forth by the public.

Liza Ridzén has been nominated in both the “Fiction of the Year” and “Debut of the Year” categories for When The Cranes Fly South. Nominated for “Debut of the Year” are also Johanna Swanberg for Cassi, and Ebba Bandh for A Little Death. 

Amongst the nominated titles in the “Crime Fiction” category are Kristina Ohlsson’s Beyond Rescue, and Lars Kepler’s The Sleepwalker.

Finally, in the “Children’s Book of the Year, Ages 6-12” category, Martin Widmark has received a nomination for The Space Mystery. 

The winning titles will be announced on January 30, 2025.

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Kristina Ohlsson has been honored with this year’s Kristianstadsbladet Culture and Entertainment Award. The prize was established in 2006 and is awarded annually to a cultural personality, cultural initiative, or production related to the newspaper’s distribution area in and around Kristianstad in northeastern Skåne.

The jury’s motivation reads as follows:

“With desire, curiosity and skill, she captures young and old alike, with stories that are like fairy tales filled with all sides of life: people and ghosts, light and dark, suspense and riddles.”

Lars Kepler’s The Sleepwalker is still No. 1 on the bestseller list for hardcovers for the third consecutive week. Meanwhile, Tina Mackic’s The Summer Shadow and the Christmas Prank shoots to No. 1 on the children’s list, and Kristina Ohlsson’s The Ghost Detectives and the Case of the Ghastly Game takes the No. 3 spot.

The Sleepwalker, the latest installment in Lars Kepler’s Joona Linna series, stays put at No. 1 on the bestseller list for hardcovers. Meanwhile, Martin Widmark’s The Space Mystery, is No.1 in the children’s category for the 5th consecutive week, followed closely by Kristina Ohlsson’s The Ghost Detectives and the Case of the Ghastly Game at No. 2. Tina Mackic’s just published The Summer Shadow and the Christmas Prank comes in at No. 3.

Beyond Rescue, the fourth installment in Kristina Ohlsson’s bestselling August Strindberg series, climbs the Norwegian bestseller list and lands the No. 2 spot on the e-book list, and shoots to No. 4 on the hardcover list this week.

The latest installment in Kristina Ohlsson’s bestselling August Strindberg series, Beyond Rescue, shoots to No. 4 on the bestseller list for e-books this week.

Kristina Ohlsson is shortlisted for this year’s BookBeat Award in the “Crime Writer of the Year” category. The winner will be determined based on the audiobook service’s statistics from the past year.

The winning authors and titles will be announced during the Crimetime Awards ceremony at the Gothenburg Book Fair on September 28.

The comprehensive sales statistics for Q2 2024 have been published, and the fourth installment in the August Strindberg series, Beyond Rescue, is the No. 1 most sold title on both the fiction list and the one for total sales. The lists highlight the top 20 bestsellers based on sales value, with total sales including all print and digital formats combined.

The official statistics of the bestselling titles in Sweden during the second quarter of 2024 have just been published. The fourth book in Kristina Ohlsson’s bestselling August Strindberg series, Beyond Rescue, is No. 2 in the hardcover category.

Dimmed Lights, the third installment in Kristina Ohlsson’s lauded August Strindberg series, enters Der Spiegel’s list for trade paperbacks at No. 5 this week.

Beyond Rescue, the fourth installment in Kristina Ohlsson’s successful August Strindberg series, is No. 2 on the official monthly bestseller list for hardcovers in Sweden. Moreover, the first installment in Anders and Anette de la Motte’s whodunit mystery series, Death on Capri, comes in at No.5.