‘The Achilles Heels of Your Brain’ No. 1 in Sweden
Anders Hansen’s The Achilles Heels of Your Brain comes in at No. 1 on the official Swedish bestseller list for nonfiction. This marks the book’s third week at the top.
Anders Hansen’s The Achilles Heels of Your Brain comes in at No. 1 on the official Swedish bestseller list for nonfiction. This marks the book’s third week at the top.
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Aslak Nore (b. 1978) is an author and editor who grew up in Oslo. He has studied in New York, served in Norway’s elite Telemark Battalion in Bosnia, lived in Latin America, and worked as a journalist in the Middle East. Nore resides in Provence with his family.
Since his debut in 2007, Nore has established himself as one of his generation’s most interesting authors of both fiction and non-fiction, most recently with the epic literary thrillers in The Falck Saga. He has received numerous awards, including the Riverton Prize and been shortlisted for a number of others, among those the Norwegian Booksellers’ Prize and the Petrona Award.
The shortlist for the 2026 CWA Dagger for Crime Fiction in Translation has just been announced, and Jørn Lier Horst and Antti Tuomainen are both vying for the UK award. The winner will be announced on July 2nd, at the Crime Writers’ Association’s Awards Dinner.
Jørn Lier Horst is nominated for his The Lake, the seventeenth William Wisting novel. Antti Tuomainen is in the running with the standalone The Winter Job.
The Doubt, the second installment in Horst & Fjell’s bestselling Markus Heger series, debuts at No. 1 on the official bestseller list just one week after publication. Moreover, it also holds the top position at Norli and Ark, two of Norway’s largest book retailers.
Food, glamour, history – and a rivalry with deadly consequences.
A Swedish director and his stars travel to Rome to seek inspiration from the legendary life of Queen Christina ahead of an upcoming major motion picture. But after tours of Roman ruins, the treasures of the Vatican, and the film sets of Cinecittà, it becomes clear that the group harbors both tensions and secrets, and the glamour is abruptly shattered when a body is discovered in one of Rome’s most magnificent palazzos.
In the Eternal City, shaped over millennia by rivalry and power struggles, tour guide Lara Belmonte and history teacher Hugo Lind are once again drawn into a deadly mystery. Somewhere beneath the Italian sun, a murderer is hiding.
Rivals in Rome is the third book in the bestselling Murders Under the Sun series, featuring sun-drenched settings, great food, and intriguing murder mysteries.
Jo Nesbø’s standalone Wolf Hour is No. 2 also on April’s official bestseller list in Iceland.
Josef has served his sentence but outside the prison walls life is not what it once was. He’s determined not to return to a life of crime, but reality hits him hard. Can you really make up for your crimes in a society that has judged you for all eternity?
On the opposite side of the planet, Antonia is trying to escape her past. When she suddenly finds herself all alone she realizes it’s time to return to the Stockholm suburb where she grew up. A whole other battle awaits there, and Antonia needs to create a new life for herself while drugs are still controlling her every thought.
The Mansour family protects their territories with all their might, but they must also find new ways to expand. Josef is pulled into the clan’s plans and Antonia risks getting caught in their web. Soon, the war is on.
The War is the second installment in The Clan trilogy and a stirring portrayal of gang criminality’s reckless violence and effect on our society, a violence designed to uphold a power balance that is constantly challenged by the ongoing gang wars.
Anders Hansen’s The Achilles Heels of Your Brain continues its No. 1 streak on the official Swedish bestseller list for nonfiction. This is the book’s second week at the top.
Jørn Lier Horst’s latest installment in the William Wisting series, The Last Case, has secured the No. 2 position on two of Poland’s largest online e-book retailers just weeks after its publication.
One year after the events in The Scream, true crime podcaster Markus Heger meets former financier Terje Wekre, who has been sentenced to the harshest penalty under the law for murdering his wife. Wekre claims he is innocent, and Markus is persuaded to listen – especially since his persistent father, Frank Drage, is in the cell next door.
The new podcast serial, A Shadow of Doubt, gets off to an explosive start. Markus suggests a possible miscarriage of justice, but gradually the evidence points in a completely different direction.
The Doubt is an intense and atmospheric thriller about guilt, revenge, and trust, and about how the past always finds a way back.
Netherlands, House of Books
Three-book deal closed by Tor Jonasson
Iceland, Forlagid
Closed by Emma Granberg
Brazil, Editora Sextante
Closed by Emma Granberg
Estonia, Pegasus
Closed by Emma Granberg
Finland, Into Kustannus
Three-book deal closed by Tor Jonasson
Bulgaria, EMAS
Two-book deal closed by Emma Granberg
Masterful satirical portrayal of how money can change lives.
– Adresseavisen
Yrsa Sigurðardóttir is a masterful plotter and accomplished stylist, with a storytelling style that echoes the Icelandic sagas. Once again, she delivers a gripping and enigmatic crime novel.
– Politiken
I could recognize myself in some of the scenes, and they affected me deeply. /…/ The book is also easy to get into. I was quickly drawn into the story and was very curious to see what would happen next.
– Sundsvalls Tidning
There are a lot of things to unravel in this pitch-black homecoming novel and Bengtsdotter succeeds really well in doing so on just under 300 pages.
– Göteborgs-Posten
It’s a powerful opening. In just a few pages, Selåker paints a portrait of a deeply flawed man on the verge of breaking point, while also capturing loneliness so vividly that the silence inside the house seems to scream from the pages. /…/ I’m looking forward to returning to the Wilderness Road and its surroundings, which Selåker portrays with a sharp eye in this dark and compelling first installment.
– Göteborgs-Posten
Maya is tired. Tired of constantly being expected to want to climb the career ladder, to want more, to grow, to become better. She just wants to be. To put in her hours and then go home.