Jo Nesbø’s Kill Shot, the fourteenth Harry Hole installment, claims the No. 1 spot on the official hardcover bestseller list of August in Norway. Burned, the first book in the Henning Juul series, follows closely at No. 2. 

Kill Shot, the fourteenth installment in Jo Nesbø’s bestselling Harry Hole series, continues to dominate both the hardcover and the e-book bestseller lists. This marks the book’s third consecutive week at the top.

Kill Shot, the fourteenth installment in Jo Nesbø’s bestselling Harry Hole series, stays put at No. 1 on both the hardcover and e-book bestseller lists for the second consecutive week.

The Petrona Award’s jury has just presented its longlist for the 2026 Petrona Award for ‘Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year.’

Among the 12 nominees are Jo Nesbø’s Wolf Hour, Satu Rämö’s The Grave in the Ice, Aslak Nore with The Heirs of the Arctic, Yrsa Sigur∂ardóttir’s The Wake, Antti Tuomainen’s The Winter Job, and Lilja Sigur∂ardóttir with Black as Death.

The shortlist will be announced on September 24, 2026. 

Kill Shot, the fourteenth installment in Jo Nesbø’s bestselling Harry Hole series, soars straight to No. 1 on both the hardcover and e-book bestseller lists.

Jo Nesbø’s Kill Shot (Harry Hole #14), to be published in Slovakia on October 8th, was made available for pre-orders today and instantly shot to No. 1 on Martinus, Slovakia’s biggest online retailer.

The only thing left is the kill shot.

New Year’s Eve, Oslo: Harry Hole is balancing on the balcony railing. He’s quit the police force, quit drinking, and the woman he loves is dead. Seventeen stories below him lies Oslo.

New Year’s Day and Oleg Fauke’s first day at the Homicide Unit opens with three bodies. The victims all have connections to the film industry. When the police are sent videos showing recreations of murders from film history, the question arises: has Oslo once again got a serial killer?

The killer is editing his masterpiece, and Harry is doomed to play a role in it.

The next take might be his last.

Kill Shot is the fourteenth installment in Jo Nesbø’s bestselling Harry Hole series.

Jo Nesbø’s standalone Wolf Hour is No. 2 also on April’s official bestseller list in Iceland.

The Swedish bestseller lists for the first quarter of 2026 are out. Björn Natthiko Lindeblad’s From Björn Natthiko Lindeblad. With an open hand claims the No. 5 spot on the non-fiction list, while Martin Widmark’s The Fire Brigade Mystery features at the same position on the children’s list. The paperback list sees Jo Nesbø’s Blood Ties taking the No. 5 spot.

Jo Nesbø has been awarded the 2025 Riverton Prize for his standalone thriller Wolf Hour.
The prestigious crime writing award is annually given to the best Norwegian crime story and Nesbø has been the recipient of this award twice previously, in 1997, for the first novel in the Harry Hole series, The Bat and in 2019 for the twelfth installment, Knife, in addition to being awarded the Riverton Honor Prize in 2016.

The jury says: “This is a virtuoso novel – grand, tight, and elegant – it moves with energy and feeling, seamlessly composed with expressive zooms in and out. There are many details and tricks to rejoice over – a true-to-genre hardboiled style, a troubled and wounded investigator with his heart on his sleeve. The novel’s different realities, with the true crime dynamic, invite the reader in, raising and expanding the novel’s pulse and scope in a striking way.”

The official Icelandic bestseller lists of 2026’s first quarter have been published, and Kristina Ohlsson and Jo Nesbø grab the two top spots on the crime fiction list. Kristina Ohlsson is No. 1 with Storm Watch, the first installment in the August Strindberg series. Jo Nesbø is No. 2 with the standalone Wolf Hour.

Jo Nesbø’s Detective Hole is currently the Global #1 non-English show, with a staggering 6,9 million views only this past week, confirmed by Netflix last night.