Anne Holt’s just published Twelve Untamed Horses is No. 1 in e-book in Norway, and No. 4 in hardcover.
Hanne Wilhelmsen’s life is about to fall apart. Her wife, Nefis, has left her and taken their daughter, Ida, with her. When one of the few people in the world that Hanne cares about is brutally killed, she must fight to both save her family and solve a murder case far more important than she has ever faced before. Struggling with her own destructive forces and thoughts, she is led into a bleak landscape of hatred, contempt, and abuse, where it also turns out that a series of unexplained pregnancies are part of a larger, terrifying whole. Sleep-deprived and desperate, Hanne works around the clock and eventually finds a truth that is unbearable. For some.
Twelve Untamed Horses is the twelfth installment in Anne Holt’s Hanne Wilhelmsen series.
Anders de la Motte’s The Mountain King celebrates its third week at No. 1 on the official paperback bestseller list in Sweden.
The ninth installment in Lars Kepler’s Joona Linna series, The Spider, has debuted at No. 6 on the Canadian national newspaper The Globe and Mail’s bestseller list.
Netflix has unveiled the trailer for the much awaited thriller A Day and a Half, directed by Fares Fares and written by Fares together with Peter Smirnakos.
A Day and a Half will launch globally on Netflix on September 1.
Photo: DN/Nicklas Thegerström
Cry Wolf has started filming in Haparanda, a city at Sweden’s easternmost point, bordering Finland.
The six-part series is written by Oskar Söderlund, directed by Jesper Ganslandt and is based on the acclaimed novel of the same name, by Hans Rosenfeldt.
Cry Wolf stars Eliot Sumner (No Time to Die), Eva Melander (Border) and Henrik Dorsin (Triangle of Sadness).
Isak works in home care in a small town in Småland. One day, he is contacted by his father, an internationally known artist who left Isak when he was a child. The father is dying and wishes to reconcile. He also wants Isak to inherit his fortune, but there are certain reservations. Isak and his girlfriend Madde go to visit his father and get involved in a psychological game wherein the line between reality and nightmare blurs — a game of life and death.
The Fireman is Ulf Kvensler’s second stand-alone psychological thriller, following his best-selling suspense novel Sarek.
Anders de la Motte’s The Mountain King, the first installment in the Leo Asker series, is the 2nd most sold title among all thriller and crime fiction titles in Denmark this week.
The nominations are out for this year’s Kristallen Awards. Aron Levander’s Detective #24 is nominated for Best Drama Series, together with Blackwater which is written by Karin Arrhenius and Maren Louise Käehne.
Tove Eriksen Hillblom’s The Meaning of Life is nominated for Best Comedy and No Angel, directed by Tuna Özer, received a nomination for Best Teen Drama.
The Kristallen Awards ceremony will be held August 28 at Cirkus in Stockholm and will be aired live on SVT.
The first installment in a new series by Anders de la Motte, The Mountain King is once again No. 1 on the official Swedish bestseller list for paperbacks this week.
Finland, Otava
Closed by Linda Andersson
Taiwan, Sun Color
Closed by Emma Granberg
North Macedonia, Bata Press
Two-book deal closed by Emma Granberg
Arab World, Al Arabi
Closed by Emma Granberg
Arab World, Al Arabi
Closed by Emma Granberg
Estonia, Eesti Raamat
Two-book deal closed by Emma Granberg
The Russos make the most of their enormous budget, with a boatload of impressive visual effects, faithful recreations of Stålenhag’s epic vistas, and some nicely analogue art direction.
– Empire
The Stranger Things star, Chris Pratt and the Russo Brothers have made a Spielbergian treat. /…/ (…) what fun it is to watch a film this expensive and not be able to quite work out where it’s going – or even if it might just stay put for a bit, and soak up the dustily poetic death-of-the-American century vibe.
– The Telegraph
The Electric State is good. (…) [It’s] entertaining, stylish, and lavish. /…/ The 90s had little to nothing to do with the book, but it is the focus here, and in more ways than one, I think it works… and really well too. /…/ I had fun, from start to finish.
– Gamereactor
(…) you can certainly take away one thing from The Electric State, a strong message celebrating our differences and the fact that despite the technological advancements our world faces every day, nothing will ever replace human connection.
– GamesRadar
I liked the film’s great visuals, solid VFX, the world building and loved how it captured the dystopian atmosphere while remaining family friendly. I also absolutely adored the star cast, especially the incredible voice actors and the underlying message of inclusivity in today’s world that is highly polarised.
– MensXP
In Wolf Hour, Jo Nesbø sets the action in the American Midwest in 2016. A hard-boiled police novel in the best Nesbø style – from an America that’s on the edge of a precipice.
