In the devastation of post-Communist Albania, a place where first rulers, then beliefs have collapsed and died, the young Bujar and his friend Agim decide to seek out a new beginning. As they travel they carry with them the age-old stories of their ancestors, tales in which an Albanian’s honor can conquer the weaknesses of humankind.

Years later a young man’s odyssey through the cities of the world comes to an end in a cold country by the sea. Will the man’s fragmented story finally reach closure, and can a broken mind ever truly find peace?

Pajtim Statovci’s second novel Heartlines is a breath-taking story about the human condition and our desire to be seen.

A Man Called Ove, Fredrik Backman’s debut novel, keeps its No. 4 placement on the New York Times Best Seller List, as does My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry at No. 10. A Man Called Ove and My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry has now been on the bestseller list for 33 and 17 consecutive weeks, respectively.

Modus, the acclaimed TV-series based on Anne Holt’s hit crime novels about Inger Johanne Vik, and primarily the fourth installment Fear Not, is nominated for the prestigious Swedish TV award Kristallen (the Swedish Emmy-award). The Kristallen Gala will take place on September 4th in Stockholm and is broadcasted live.

Yrsa Sigurdardóttir’s stand-alone thriller Why Did You Lie has been selected by The Sunday Times as their Crime Book of the Month. The British newspaper calls the novel “a tour de force,” applauding Sigurdardóttir for her brilliant handling of the different plot strands and how she brings them together in “an unforgettable climax.”

At a hospital in Oslo, Superintendent Fredrik Beier is slowly regaining consciousness. Painkillers and alcohol, or so the doctor tells him. The recipe of a suicide attempt. But Fredrik himself can’t seem to recall any of it.

A widow has gone missing, and in her home the police find the body of a recently deceased man. The remains are identified as belonging to someone declared dead over twenty years ago. Meanwhile, the sewer rats in eastern Oslo are feasting on a second body. A tragic past connects the two, forged during the days following the fall of the Soviet Union and an operation that ended in catastrophe. Now, a forgotten weapon has been brought back to life, and fallen into the hands of an avenger with nothing left to live for.

Ingar Johnsrud’s As We Fall is a thriller that slips into the deepest crannies of the human soul only to then infiltrate the headquarters of this world’s major powers. As We Fall is the second harrowing installment in the series about Fredrik Beier and Kafa Iqbal.

A Man Called Ove, Fredrik Backman’s debut novel, is No. 4 on the New York Times Best Seller List. It is the novel’s 32nd consecutive week on the bestseller list, and it’s joined by My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry at No. 10. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry has now been on the bestseller list for 16 consecutive weeks.

Maj Sjöwall has been awarded the Crimetime Specsavers’ Honorary Award 2016. The newly established award is to be presented to authors who have acted as pioneers in Swedish crime literature and put Sweden on the international crime fiction map.

“It is a great honor to be the first to receive this award, given that there are now quite many Swedish mystery writers,” says a happy Maj Sjöwall. The award ceremony, which Maj Sjöwall will also be attending, is to be held on August 20th in Visby, during the closing performance of the Crimetime Gotland Festival, Sweden’s biggest crime literature festival.

Jørn Lier Horst and Hans Jørgen Sandnes’ The Search for the Queen of the Jungle is this summer’s most sold children’s book in Norway. The activity book, which features the gang from the Detective Agency No. 2 series, is joined on the list by a book from the original series, Operation Circus. The ninth installment in the series, Operation Circus keeps its No. 3 spot from last month’s list.