Ewert Grens is doing great. An amazing little boy is calling him his pretend grandpa and for the first time in thirty years, there is a woman he wants to dress nicely for.

Why does it all then transform into a nightmare of lethal injections, slave and organ trade, and kidnappings? And how does it all lead to the murder of someone close to Ewert?

In this stand-alone installment in the Hoffman & Grens series, Anders Roslund cements his place among our time’s greatest suspense novelists. Trust Me is an unstoppable thriller where no one can be trusted.

Dagens Nyheter, Sweden’s largest national newspaper, has announced a list of this summer’s best books, and Sara Osman’s debut Everything We Didn’t Say features on the coveted list. The newspaper also gives the following review of the book:

“A furiously intelligent contemporary drama about three young women. /…/ Taking turns, they tell of work and conflicts in May and June, but then as a grim echo, the chapters called “After” enter the picture. Because Midsummer’s Eve doesn’t turn out like any of them expected.”

The just published first installment in Anders de la Motte & Måns Nilsson’s new whodunnit series, A House to Die For, enters the official Swedish bestseller lists this week at No. 4 in e-book and No. 5 in hardcover. Hans Rosenfeldt’s When Crying Wolf grabs the No. 3 spot on the paperback list.

Jørn Lier Horst’s A Question of Guilt, the fourth installment in the Cold Case Quartet, stays steady at No. 1 on the official paperback bestseller list in Norway for the second consecutive week.

Today it was announced that production company Tuffi Films has acquired the rights to adapt Sofi Oksanen’s bestselling debut novel Stalin’s Cows into a TV series.

The six-episode series will be written by Finnish scriptwriter Aino Kivi and Estonian scriptwriter Andra Teede, who give their thoughts on the novel and project below:

“The novel is remarkable, and it feels even more topical now than it did when it was first published.”
–Aino Kivi

“Stalin’s Cows will be the most important international television series ever filmed about the complicated history of Estonia. Sofi Oksanen has done an amazing job of writing in one book about the troubling times of the Stalin repressions of the 1940s, the joyless life of the deep Soviet Union of the 1970s and the ramifications of all this in the lives of the young Estonians in Finland in the 2000s. Today, when Estonian and Finnish relations are more tense than they have been for a while, it is important to remember the history of the neighbouring countries and the freedom and prosperity that Finland has always represented to Estonians. Stalin’s Cows is a story of how some suffering play a role in our psyche even generations later. I am very proud to be a part of writing this series and hope to bring my own family’s stories into this very promising work of art.”
–Andra Teede

And Sofi adds:
“When I saw Aino Kivi’s dramatization of Stalin’s Cows at the Joensuu City Theatre, I was astounded by Kivi’s talent, I am thrilled that she is now working on a TV series version of my novel.”
–Sofi Oksanen

Premiere date and territories where the TV series will be released are yet to be announced.

A Question of Guilt, the fourth installment in Jørn Lier Horst’s Cold Case Quartet, sails to No. 1  on the official paperback bestseller list in Norway.