Jørn Lier Horst’s The Traitor, the sixteenth novel about detective William Wisting, stays put at No. 1 also this week on the official Norwegian bestseller lists for fiction and e-books.
Investigator Liv Jensen is in a frenzy. Unpleasant circumstances force her to quit her job at the Aalborg police and return to her childhood home. Fortunately, she quickly finds a lease in the basement of a house in Vesterbro with the retired frame maker, Jan Leon, and his grown-up daughter Hannah. Two people who share a great sadness.
Liv dreams of a position at the homicide department in the capital, but has to settle with working as a private detective with the case she gets from her friend and mentor, Petter Bohm from the Copenhagen Police. The case is about a cultural journalist who was strangled three years ago, the perpetrator was never caught. Maybe Liv can solve that case, erase the memories from Aalborg and return to the police again?
The case forces Liv to revisit the past, travel to the west coast of Jutland and into one of the darkest chapters in Danish history. It all ties together. Everyone is running from something, and no one can feel safe.
The Writing on the Wall is the first installment in a new crime series starring investigator and private detective Liv Jensen, car mechanic Nima Azour and psychiatrist Hannah Leon.
It’s autumn and the animals at Rosengård are preparing a fun Halloween party. But what’s happened to Atlas the dog? Samira Karlsson has not seen her friend for several days and is worried. At the dog park, she learns that Atlas has been injured, but strange rumors are buzzing about what really happened to him, and why.
The cat spies have to face the facts: one of their sub-agents has been seriously injured. But is it a threat against the dogs, or the cat spies themselves? The mystery thickens when more dogs get hurt at dog parks around town.
In Tinker, Tailor, Cat, Spy, we once again get to meet all the wonderful characters from Rosengård, such as Elsa of Purrendelle, Kitty, Leroux and Salome, who is now a new (and nervous) double agent, and the rat Shu, who realizes that she must once more help the cats solve their mystery. At the center is, of course, Samira Karlsson, cat spy extraordinaire in a world hidden from the humans.
The children’s book series The Cat Spies of Rosengard is one of Sweden’s best selling series.
Anders Hansen’s books has sold over 1 million copies in Japan. His title Insta-Brain was the most sold title of 2021 in Japan and has together with Brain Blues and The Real Happy Pill been #1 bestsellers.
“So what you’re saying is that we are suddenly in some kind of … well, crime novel about serial killers? You know I don’t do such things, never have – for the simple reason that there are no Swedish serial killers, never has been.”
But, if they do not exist:
Why is a body drained of blood?
Why is another body crushed, bone by bone, and a third burned with various liquids?
How reliable is really a reliable piece of DNA evidence?
And – what really happened to criminal detective Ewert Grens, he who shot himself to end it all?
In this installment of the Hoffman & Grens series, Anders Roslund shows that he is one of the greatest crime writers of our time. 100 Percent is a ruthless thriller impossible to put away.
Anders de la Motte’s just published The Mountain King enters the official Swedish bestseller lists at No. 4. The Mountain King is the first installment in the new Leo Asker series.
Fredrik Backman’s final installment in the Beartown-series, The Winners, debuts the New York Times bestseller list at No. 5 in hardcover and the Toronto Star’s bestseller list at No. 5.
The bestseller lists for week 39 in Norway are in, and Jørn Lier Horst’s just published The Traitor goes straight to the top, claiming the No. 1 spot in the fiction category. Jo Nesbø comes in at No. 2 on the same list with Killing Moon, and Matias Faldbakken climbs to No. 3 with Poor Thing. On the paperback list, Liza Marklund’s The Polar Circle jumps to No. 2.
For the seventh week in a row, Lina Wolff’s The Devil’s Grip comes in at the top of the prestigious critics’ choice list of Dagens Nyheter, Sweden’s largest newspaper.
The shooting of the film and TV series about Vidkun Quisling, the man responsible for one of the greatest betrayals during World War II, is about to begin.
Erik Poppe is director of this psychological drama, and the script is written by Anna Bache-Wiig and Siv Rajendram Eliassen. Actors Anders Danielsen Lie and Gard B. Eidsvold are set to headline.
In the story of Quisling’s last days, we get a condensed insight into a psychological and claustrophobic battle about truth and lies, faith and doubt. The project has its origins in extensive research and unique source material. Among the sources is a diary written by the priest Peder Olsen, Quisling’s confidante and one of his two counselors in prison, from the arrest of Quisling until his execution on 24 October 1945.
The project includes both a theatrical film and a TV series for TV2, that are expected to premiere in fall 2024.
Slovakia, Verbarium
Closed by Ida Schabbauer
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
It’s a stunning debut by a young author, who in a spot-on way portrays the burdens of aging and the often-accompanying patronizing attitude from the surroundings.
– MAX Magazine
Paradis City has thrilling ambitions worthy of applause. Prime Video (…) may very well have a hit on their hands.
– Aftonbladet
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
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.