Just published in Iceland, Heine Bakkeid’s third Thorkild Aske installment We Shall Not Awaken goes straight to No. 1 on the bestseller lists for all books and formats of leading book retailer Eymundsson.
Jørn Lier Horst on this week’s bestseller lists in Denmark
Jørn Lier Horst’s A Will To Serve claims two spots on this week’s bestseller list for Saxo, Denmark’s biggest online book retailer. The book comes in as No. 1 on the list for e-books and No. 3 for audiobooks.
The second season of hit crime drama Bäckström premieres today, February 28, on C More and subsequently on TV 4 March 8.
Murder isn’t often good news. But Detective Sergeant Evert Bäckström (Kjell Bergqvist) can’t help but rejoice when he is told that Thomas Eriksson, a celebrity lawyer and his rival, has been killed. Bäckström’s good mood is however spoiled when he is assigned to the frustrating case and finds the list of people who wanted Eriksson dead to be endless.
Bäckström Season 2, directed by Andreas Öhman and Manuel Concha and written by Jonathan Sjöberg and Dennis Magnusson, is based on the novel The Sword Of Justice by acclaimed author Leif GW Persson.
Ever since his arrest in Israel in 1979, the name Stig Bergling has been synonymous to espionage. He has been portrayed as a master spy and a true original. A lady’s man, married many times over but never to the love of his life. Time after time, he eluded Swedish justice, not least through the spectacular prison escape in October 1987.
But was Stig Bergling the spy all that successful? Who benefited from his escapades and who was sacrificed in order for him to gain his freedom? Jonas Bonnier’s skillfully constructed novel Fandango Calling challenges the myth surrounding Bergling and invites the reader to a breathtaking adventure in the bizarre world that agents live and work in.
Steinar Bragi’s ‘The Disturbance’ nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize
Steinar Bragi’s The Disturbance is nominated for the 2022 Nordic Council Literature Prize. Instituted in 1962, the Literature Prize has since been awarded annually to a work of fiction written in one of the Nordic languages that is of “high literary and artistic quality”.
The winner will be announced on November 1st in Helsinki, Finland.
The jury says about the The Disturbance:
“The questions that arise during the reading of this novel are the big questions on the ethics of science and the present day. Some of them are familiar: When will artificial intelligence become so powerful that it will be indistinguishable from human intelligence? If the imitation of human intelligence can be perfected, will it be more perfect than the intelligence that each of us has been given? In films and literature, conflicts are often portrayed between humans and supercomputers, cyborgs or aliens. Such clashes usually end with the human spirit winning a narrow victory, which relies on mankind’s ability to love and believe – but who says that this is not also something that can be learned?”
To read the full rationale, please click ‘Read More’ below.
The official Finnish bestseller list for the month of January is out. Björn Natthiko Lindeblad’s I May Be Wrong comes in at No. 2 on the list for non-fiction e-books, while Måns Mosesson’s Tim – The Official Biography of Avicii claims the No. 5 spot on both the e-book and audio book lists in the same category.
Hit crime drama series Top Dog is returning for round two on C More and filming is underway.
Season 2 takes off two years after the events of the first season. Teddy has risen in rank, while Emily has been given a new assignment as a business lawyer. Both soon end up facing moral dilemmas that put their entire world in turmoil.
David Sundin’s The Book That Did Not Want To Be Read comes in at No. 4 on the bestseller list for Saxo, Denmark’s biggest online book retailer, across all books.
A serial killer plagues summertime Oslo, and Harry Hole is teamed up with his archenemy Tom Waaler to crack the case. The murders bring up questions of fidelity and betrayal, while Waaler enlists Harry in his clandestine band of police vigilantes, imposing their own brand of justice.
Trailer of the Month
Jo Nesbø’s Detective Hole
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