Police inspector Tilda Davidsson is in the late stages of pregnancy when she walks into the dark house on a farm on northern Öland. There she finds an elderly couple, where the man appears to have been dead for several weeks while the woman was killed earlier that day.

Tilda’s old relative Gerlof realizes that the isolated farm is located on the site of a secret World War II defense project. It dawns on him that the mysterious deaths that struck the island during the war are not forgotten and that a killer from the past is still on the loose.

Scratch Marks is the standalone sequel to Weathered Bones and the sixth installment in the internationally bestselling Öland Series.

Johan Theorin’s Weathered Bones, the fifth installment in the Öland series, debuts at No. 5 on the monthly Iceland bestseller list.

The nominees for this year’s Icelandic Storytel Awards have been announced. The Storytel Awards have been bestowed to highlight the best audio books of the year. The awards are granted within six categories: Suspense, Fiction, Non-fiction, Feelgood, YA, and Children’s books.

Among the nominees for suspense are Johan Theorin’s Weathered Bones and Yrsa Sigurdardottir’s I See You.

We’re Just Trying to Have Fun by Hálldor Armand Asgeirsson is featured within the non-fiction category.

Simona Ahrnstedt’s High Risk is nominated in the feelgood category, whilst Martin Widmark’s The Saffron Mystery is in the running for the children’s books award.

Readers will be able to vote for their favorite works, after which a jury will pick a winner among the three candidates with the most votes in each category.

The official bestseller lists for the month of October are out, and Lars Kepler’s The Spider grabs the top spot on the hardcover list for fiction, coming in at No. 1 followed by Anders Roslund’s 100 percent at No. 5.

Martin Widmark’s The Masquerade Mystery comes in at No. 3 on the bestseller list for children’s, and Johan Theorin’s Weathered Bones is No. 2 on the list for paperback.

Lars Kepler’s just published The Spider shoots to No. 1 on the weekly Swedish bestseller list for hardcovers. Johan Theorin and Weathered Bones stay firmly put at No. 3 on the paperback list.

Anders Roslund’s 100 Percent climbs the hardcover bestseller list to land at No. 2 this week. The No. 2 spot on the children’s books’ list meanwhile goes to Kristina Ohlsson’s just published The Ghost Detectives and the Case of the Great Train Wreck. Johan Theorin’s Weathered Bones comes in at No. 3 in paperback.

This week’s bestseller lists in Norway have Stefan Ahnhem appear at the top of the official paperback list, claiming the No. 1 spot with The Final Nail for the sixth consecutive week. The title is followed by Jo Nesbø who features at No. 2  with The Jealousy Man and Other Stories and Liza Marklund who comes in at No. 3 with The Polar Circle on the same list. Johan Theorin claims the No. 5 spot with Weathered Bones on the official list for fiction.

Jørn Lier Horst & Hans Jørgen Sandnes’ Detective Agency No. 2 title  The Search for the Camping King comes in at No. 1 on the Norwegian bestseller list for children’s fiction for the second consecutive week.

This week’s bestseller lists in Norway have Stefan Ahnhem’s The Final Nail claiming the No. 1 spot at the top of the official paperback list for the fourth consecutive week. 

Johan Theorin’s Weathered Bones appear on the No. 3 spot on the official fiction list.

This week’s bestseller lists in Norway have Johan Theorin appear on the No. 3 spot on the official fiction list with Weathered Bones.

Stefan Ahnhem’s The Final Nail claims the No. 1 spot at the top of the official paperback list. 

Dagens Nyheter, Sweden’s largest national newspaper, has announced a list of this year’s best crime novels which features and praises Liza Marklund’s The Polar Circle, Johan Theorin’s Weathered Bones, Sara Osman’s Everything We Didn’t Say, Niklas Natt och Dag’s 1795 and Anders de la Motte & Måns Nilsson’s A House to Die For.

The just published Tim – The Official Biography of Avicii by Måns Mosesson enters the official Swedish bestseller list at No. 1 in both the hardcover non-fiction and audio category this week. Johan Theorin’s Weathered Bones, also just published, claims the No. 2 spot in hardcover fiction and comes in at No. 3 in e-book. Lars Kepler’s The Mirror Man grabs the No. 1 spot on the paperback list, while Kristina Ohlsson’s Icebreaker stays firmly put at No. 1 in the e-book category for the third consecutive week. Anders Hansen’s Brain Blues comes in at No. 2 in both hardcover non-fiction and audio and climbs to No. 4 on the e-book list this week.

A man lays down a garland of roses on a desolate Öland beach, only to moments later die in a sudden rock-fall. When police officer Tilda Davidsson lifts the garland, she discovers bone remains from a man that was last seen alive in the company of Tilda’s relative, the 86-year-old skipper Gerlof.

Gerlof is sickly and feeble, but is nevertheless forced to investigate why an old tragedy still has the power to instill fear and hatred. Hatred so strong that the murder on the beach is just the beginning.

Weathered Bones is the fifth installment in the internationally bestselling Öland Series.