Jo Nesbø’s Blood on Snow is the big winner of the 2017 Translated Mystery Awards in Japan, taking home both the Best Translated Mystery Award and the Best Translated Mystery – Reader’s Choice Award. The Best Translated Mystery Award winner is chosen by a jury of professional translators, while the latter is chosen by a group comprised of readers and translators alike.

An about-to-hit-forty cancer ward nurse in Iceland, Kata is a woman destined for a journey of revenge. After her teenage daughter Vala goes missing, Kata throws herself into work to forget. When her daughter’s body is found at last, Kata learns the awful truth of the horrors that she suffered before dying. And as Kata listens, it’s as if her world begins to gently shift out of focus, tilt off its axis: The odyssey begins. The end destination is justice, but even more so, revenge. Revenge on her daughter’s murderers, and on all men who abuse women. Because vengeance is not a male privilege, though the hand throwing the acid nearly always is. Acting according to the device “Until men’s and women’s rights are equal, women will submit their own agenda: Defence, Punishment and Sisterhood,” Kata begins the bloody process of reclaiming womankind’s right to avenge injustices, and themselves.

When Steinar Bragi began the research work for his novel Kata, he was shocked and appalled by the Icelandic statistics for crime against women, in particular that of sexual assault cases. Kata is a novel born out of this shock, and the raw horror that hides behind the figures.

Kristina Ohlsson’s internationally bestselling crime novels about Fredrika Bergman are being turned into a TV series set to air on TV4 and C More. Sthlm Requiem, as the series will be called, will star Liv Mjönes, Jonas Karlsson and Alexej Manvelov in the lead roles.

“To see your books filmatized is the dream of every author. I’m ecstatic that such a solid venture has been made for my Fredrika Bergman crime novels. The cast is just lovely and Liv Mjönes is perfect in the role of Fredrika,” says Kristina Ohlsson.

Sthlm Requiem will be a ten-episode series, and premiere in 2019. The series will be directed by Karin Fahlén and Lisa Ohlin.

In the far north of Scandinavia, deep beneath Mount Salajak, the Midgard Serpent sleeps in its great cave. Above it, the ancient race of hwitters stir in their castle, awakening from a long winter slumber. Ristin, a member of the winged elite force called mare hwitters, flies over Salajak’s icy top to welcome home the warriors returning from the human world carrying meat… fresh meat.

As the enemy wakes in the north, three young brothers plan their escape from their farm in southern Sweden. Their goal is to join the army of humans and fairies marching to stop the hwitters and their atrocities. The second oldest of the three Eck brothers, Niklis, wants to be a knave, and the oldest, Samuel, dreams of becoming a knight. The youngest brother Jöran would rather that they turned back home before Death comes for them all.

Lovisa Georgsdotter is the young daughter of the Lord of Frösön, the one who has called the army. Lovisa has found a hidden weapon in the lake Storsjön just outside the island. A lindwyrm is swimming in its depths, long as a meandering rapid, and it comes to her call as Lovisa blows her birch horn.

The army marching northwards becomes the focal point around which destinies meet and intertwine only to be pulled down into the bottomless abyss beyond Salajak known as Jarmaland. In its icy and dark depths, the underworld’s goddess Hel rules supreme, and a secret as old as time waits for the adventurer brave enough to discover it.

Johan Theorin’s The Jarmaland Chronicles is an irresistible invitation to experience Scandinavia in the fourteenth century, a time when the perils of war, court intrigues, and the plague were as tangible as the danger of bumping into trolls, fairies, wravers and lindwyrms. A thrilling fantasy adventure series with an unbeatable historical edge, The Jarmaland Chronicles begins with the first installment, The Battle for Salajak.

Maja Säfström (b. 1987) is the New York Times bestselling illustrator and author of The Illustrated Compendium of Amazing Animal Facts. Säfström’s playful and irresistible style has won her a tremendous international following on social media, widespread critical acclaim and multiple awards. Säfström works as a full-time illustrator and runs her own shop in central Stockholm.