The comprehensive sales statistics for Q2 2025 have been released, with Nightshifter, the latest installment in the August Strindberg series, ranking as the No. 1 title in total sales. The lists present the top 20 bestsellers based on sales value, with totals including both print and digital formats.
Following the end of the second quarter of 2025, Kristina Ohlsson’s Nightshifter, the latest installment in the August Strindberg series, tops the bestseller charts, reaching No. 1 in the eBook category, No. 2 on the audiobook list, and No. 3 in hardcover sales.
Meanwhile, the paperback chart features Beyond Rescue, the third book in the same series, at No. 2, followed by Death on Capri, the first installment in Anders & Anette de la Motte’s Murder Under the Sun series, at No. 3.
Anders Hansen and Mats Wänblad’s recently published The Real Happy Pill Minior comes in at No. 5 on the children’s bestseller list this week.
Beyond Rescue, the fourth installment in Kristina Ohlsson’s bestselling August Strindberg series, comes in at No. 5 on Der Spiegel’s list for trade paperbacks this week. This marks the book’s fourth consecutive week on the list.
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The nominations are out for this year’s Kristallen Awards. Daniel Espinosa’s The Helicopter Heist is nominated for Best Drama Series, together with The Breakthrough which is written by Oskar Söderlund, and The Congregation Season 2 – The Bride of Christ, written by Fredrik Agetoft. Tove Eriksen Hillblom’s The Meaning of Life Season 2 is nominated for Best Comedy.
Mahmut Suvakci received a nomination for Best Male Actor and Erik Svedberg-Zelman is nominated for Best Supporting Actor, both for their performances in The Helicopter Heist.
The Kristallen Awards ceremony is held on September 4 at Cirkus in Stockholm, and will be aired live on SVT Play.
The Petrona Award’s jury has just presented its longlist for the 2025 Petrona Award for ‘Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year.’
Among the 12 nominees are Jo Nesbø with Blood Ties, Pascal Engman’s The Widows, and Jørn Lier Horst & Thomas Enger with Victim.
The shortlist will be announced on 18 September 2025.
Late summer in Stockholm. Detective Sergeant Sakka Pienni has a couple of days left of her holiday when placards are filled with the news of a seventeen-year-old girl’s disappearance. When a call comes in about a female body found in a lake, Sakka is called in to the station. It is soon clear that the victim is not the missing girl – but who is she and why does no one seem to miss her?
The investigation takes an unexpected turn when the case shows disturbing similarities with an eighteen-year-old murder. Soon, Sakka and her team enter a world colder and darker than they ever could have imagined. In the midst of all of this, Sakka is troubled by memories from her past. What really happened the day her sister died?
A dark and psychological page turner, The Underground is the second installment in the series featuring Detective Sergeant Sakka Pienni.
The official Swedish bestseller list for July has just been released, and the first installment in Anders & Anette de la Motte’s the Murders Under the Sun series, Death on Capri claims the No. 1 spot in the paperback category.
The official Norwegian bestseller list for July has just been released, with Lisa Ridzén’s acclaimed debut When the Cranes Fly South taking the top spot at No. 1. Coming in at No. 2 is The Sleepwalker, the latest installment in Lars Kepler’s bestselling Joona Linna series.
Beyond Rescue, the fourth installment in Kristina Ohlsson’s bestselling August Strindberg series, claims the No. 4 spot on Der Spiegel’s list for trade paperbacks this week.
Brazil, Callis Editora
Two-book deal closed by Tassy Barham Associates on behalf of Linda Andersson
Türkiye, Dogan Egmont
Three-book deal closed by Emma Granberg
Estonia, Rahva Raamat
Three-book deal closed by Emma Granberg
France, Verso/Seuil
Three-book deal closed by Federico Ambrosini
Azerbaijan, Alatoran
Two-book deal closed by Emma Granberg
Estonia, Eesti Raamat
Two-book deal closed by Emma Granberg
[A] hard-hitting experimental novel (…) The persistence of trauma is itself a potent message. Who Killed Bambi? is a sobering and timely fable.
– Foreword Reviews
[A] melancholy tale (…) Difficult, both rhetorically and thematically, but worthwhile.
– Kirkus Reviews
Gustawsson and Enger’s meticulous writing leans on a breakneck pace overflowing with all sorts of twists and turns and features consistently believable characters. These two know how to tell stories.
– Le Devoir
Mr Saito’s Traveling Cinema is a warmhearted and atmospheric novel that impresses above all with its special, vivid language and its endearing characters. /…/ The result is a touching and multifaceted story, brought to life by its lovingly drawn characters.
– Zuger Zeitung
This traditional whodunit mystery is written with a modern twist, and the reader is teased all the way to the end with a variety of deliciously misleading clues.
– Kansan Uutiset
She is facing death. He has already been declared dead. What threads of fate bind them together?
