Kristina Ohlsson’s Storm Watch, the first installment in her new series set on the Swedish west coast, stays firmly put at No. 1 on the official paperback bestseller list in Sweden.

A Question of Guilt, the fourth novel in Jørn Lier Horst’s Cold Case Quartet, is No. 1 on the official Norwegian bestseller list for paperbacks. The novel is the overall No. 1 for the month of June as well as on the most recent weekly list.

Week 29’s lists see Hjorth & Rosenfeldt’s As You Sow stay put at No. 1 in hardcover, while Kristina Ohlsson’s Storm Watch shoots to No. 1 in the paperback category. As You Sow also climbs the audio and e-book lists, coming in at No. 1 on both.

Katrine Engberg’s international bestseller The Tenant continues to charm readers. The novel is now the second most sold translated title of the first half of 2021 in Norway.

The seventh and penultimate installment in Hjorth & Rosenfeldt’s Sebastian Bergman series, As You Sow, is No. 1 on the official Swedish list for hardcover novels. The title also grabs the No. 2 spots on the audio and e-book lists.

Lina Bengtsdotter’s third novel in the Charlie Lager series, For the Lost, celebrates five consecutive weeks on Der Spiegel’s bestseller list in Germany, this week at No. 20.

Last week, the opera entitled Innocence, composed by Kaija Saariaho and with the libretto written by Sofi Oksanen, had its world premiere during the 2021 Festival d’Aix-en-Provence. Both the opera in its entirety and the libretto itself have been praised by critics and audiences worldwide.

Already prior to the premiere, The New York Times newspaper called Innocence “the most anticipated new opera of the year,” and it has since been declared as “the landmark opera of our time” by Helsingin Sanomat, the largest daily newspaper in the Nordics. “In operas, the composer is often mentioned, the librettist less often. But Kaija Saariaho’s and Sofi Oksanen’s Innocence is the work of two equal masters,” the review continues.

“From the libretto to the staging, everything in this dark and powerful work promises a future in the biggest international theaters,” French financial newspaper Les Echos writes. The newspaper Le Monde calls it “an overwhelming masterpiece” and Spanish El Pais affirms that “it leaves no one unimpressed.”

Anders Roslund’s Trust Me continues to grab top spots on the official Swedish bestseller lists, coming in at No. 1 in audio and e-books this week. Anders de la Motte & Måns Nilsson’s A House to Die For climbs the same lists, featuring at No. 2 in e-books and No. 3 in audio.