The official statistics for the fourth quarter of 2022 have just been published, and Lars Kepler’s The Spider is the clear winner, coming in as No. 1 on both the fiction list and the one for total sales. Kristina Ohlsson’s Dimmed Lights makes a formidable showing at No. 4 on the same two lists.

The nominees for this year’s Swedish Storytel Awards have been announced. The Storytel Awards have been bestowed since 2007 in Sweden 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 Lars Kepler’s The Spider, Anders de la Motte’s The Mountain King, Kristina Ohlsson’s Dimmed Lights, Anders de la Motte and Måns Nilsson’s Death Goes Antiquing, and Liza Marklund’s The Mire.

The Details by Ia Genberg is featured within the fiction category.

Meanwhile, Anders Hansen and Mats Wänblad’s The Happiness Cure for Teens and Elaf Ali’s Who Said Anything About Love? feature on the YA list, whilst Martin Widmark’s The Masquerade Mystery and Stories from Valleby: The mysterious letter are in the running for the children’s books award.

Readers will be able to vote for their favorite works until February 5, after which a jury will pick a winner among the three candidates with the most votes in each category.

To cast your vote, click “Read more” below.

The final bestseller lists of December 2022 in Sweden saw Lars Kepler, Kristina Ohlsson and Ia Genberg all claim spots in the top. Lars Kepler’s The Spider became the No. 1 most sold hardcover fiction title of December, while Kristina Ohlsson’s Ice Breaker is No. 1 in paperback. Ia Genberg’s award-winning The Details came in at No. 3 in hardcover fiction on the weekly lists, and became the fifth most sold hardcover title of December.

Lars Kepler’s The Spider is back at No. 1 on the hardcover bestseller list in Sweden. Kristina Ohlsson’s Icebreaker is No. 1 on the paperback list, where it has ruled supreme for four weeks and counting.

The August Prize winning The Details by Ia Genberg shoots to No. 3 on the official Swedish bestseller list for hardcover fiction. The No. 1 spot on the paperback list meanwhile goes to Kristina Ohlsson and Icebreaker, which places first for the third week in a row.

Kristina Ohlsson’s Icebreaker stays at No. 1 on the official Swedish bestseller list for paperbacks.

The just published paperback edition of Kristina Ohlsson’s Icebreaker enters the official Swedish bestseller list for paperbacks at No. 1 this week, while Dimmed Lights, the latest installment in her August Strindberg-series, climbs back up to No. 3 on the hardcover fiction list.

The Swedish bestseller list this week have Lars Keplers’ The Spider claiming the No. 1 spot followed by Kristina Ohlsson’s Dimmed Lights coming in at No. 3 and Jens Lapdius’ Mr One  sailing to the No. 5 spot on the official bestseller list for hardcover fiction. 

It’s summer at its best: the flowers are blooming, the sea is sparkling, and August has just initiated a big bake-off between the citizens of Hovenäset. But then the fog comes rolling in. The idyllic summer mood is shattered when a man is found hung from a diving tower by the beach. The death quickly stirs detective Maria Martinsson’s and her colleagues’ suspicions. Who is the deceased, and what brought him to Hovenäset?

The case takes them back in time to the dreadful summer of 1989, when Lydia Broman was found murdered and dismembered in her home.

Was the right culprit caught that time? And how far are those who wish for the past to remain in the past, willing to go?

Dimmed Lights is the third installment in Kristina Ohlsson’s No. 1 bestselling series about August Strindberg.

Kristina Ohlsson’s Storm Watch, the first book in the August Strindberg series, has reached a new milestone on the German market. This week, it celebrates ten consecutive weeks on Der Spiegel’s bestseller list for paperbacks. Shortly after Storm Watch’s publication in August, it reached No. 6 on the same 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.

Kristina Ohlsson’s Icebreaker comes in at No. 5 in e-book and No. 7 in hardcover on this week’s official bestseller lists in Norway, meanwhile Storm Watch grabs the No. 3 spot on the paperback list.