
‘The Cabin’ No. 1 in Estonia
Jørn Lier Horst’s The Cabin – the second installment in the Cold Case Quartet – has sailed to No. 1 on Rahva Raamat’s bestseller list for e-books. Rahva Raamat is the largest retail and wholesale bookseller in Estonia.
Jørn Lier Horst’s The Cabin – the second installment in the Cold Case Quartet – has sailed to No. 1 on Rahva Raamat’s bestseller list for e-books. Rahva Raamat is the largest retail and wholesale bookseller in Estonia.
Annette Bjergfeldt is one of five authors shortlisted for the prestigious Danish Bogforum’s Debut Award 2020 for her epic family saga When Life Gives You Hippos. The coveted award has since 1993 been annually bestowed upon the best debut author in fiction in connection to the largest Danish bookfair, BogForum. This year’s fair is cancelled due to Covid, meaning that the jury-selected winner will instead be announced through Danish Radio 2 on the 8th of November.
Stina Jackson and Kristina Ohlsson have both been shortlisted for the prestigious 2020 Swedish Academy of Crime Writers’ Award for ‘Best Swedish Crime Novel’. Jackson is nominated for The Last Snow, while Ohlsson is shortlisted for her upcoming title Stormvakt, the first installment in a new series.
The winning author will be announced on November 22.
Johan and Anna, a pair of lovers in their mid-thirties, check into a small-town hotel in western Sweden. Johan has just left his wife for Anna and is now looking forward to a night of celebrating. But Anna has something different in mind: she has decided to call it quits. Her family is more important than her longing for happiness.
The weekend doesn’t turn out as either of them expected. A deadly mistake forces the pair to make a fateful decision then and there, and soon they are traveling down a nightmarish road that will change their lives – forever.
In Capable People, Klas Ekman weaves a lean, tight and incredibly gripping psychological thriller about ordinary people finding themselves in extraordinary circumstances, and how a fatal decision can lead to the downfall of one’s morals.
The author distinguishes himself by skillfully pulling the story through the darkest corners of the human psyche, displaying an expert touch for dialogue and multi-layered characters that together form a Hitchcockian page-turner that will stay with you long after reading.
Hans Rosenfeldt’s When Crying Wolf is No. 2 in hardcover on the latest Swedish bestseller list, claiming the No. 4 spot on the audio list as well. Simona Ahrnstedt debuts on the lists with her just published Hearts on the Line, which is No. 2 in e-book and No. 4 in hardcover. Finally, Niklas Natt och Dag’s 1794 comes in at No. 5 in paperback.
Published in Finland on Wednesday, Lars Kepler’s eighth installment in the Joona Linna series, The Mirror Man, has gone straight to No. 1 on the Finnish bestseller list and tops the general list across all genres and formats, as well as the hardcover fiction list.
The official bestseller lists of week 42 see Jørn Lier Horst’s A Question of Guilt claim the No. 1 spot on the e-book list and No. 5 placement on the hardcover one. Kristina Ohlsson meanwhile claims the No. 5 spot on the paperback list with the third Martin Benner book, To Him Who Knocks.
Lars Kepler’s The Mirror Man, the just today published eighth installment in the Joona Linna series, has gone straight to No. 1 in the Czech Republic.
Jo Nesbø’s recently published stand-alone The Kingdom is No. 1 in both Hungary and Russia this week.
A young woman disappears when she is on her way home from school. Five years later, she is found murdered on a playground in central Stockholm. Via CCTV footage, Joona Linna manages to track down an eyewitness. When it turns out that the witness is a mentally ill man who doesn’t have any memories whatsoever of what he saw, Joona reaches out to the hypnotist Erik Maria Bark.
The Mirror Man is the eighth installment in the Joona Linna series.
Norway, Cappelen Damm
Three-book deal closed by Josephine Oxelheim
Croatia, Ibis Grafika
Closed by Ida Schabbauer
Latvia, Zvaigzne ABC
Two-book deal closed by Ida Schabbauer
Netherlands, Bruna
Three-book deal closed by Julia Angelin
Czech Republic, Host
Closed by Josephine Oxelheim
Slovakia, Ikar
Closed by Emma Granberg
[The Devil’s Trick is] claustrophobically thrilling from the very first page. /…/ [T]his is a brilliant combination of thrilling entertainment and a gripping portrayal from inside forensic psychiatry.
– Skånska Dagbladet
The characters and their challenges are portrayed with great empathy, and they vividly come to life before the reader in a way that makes it impossible to do anything but grow fond of their somewhat quirky personalities.
– Danish Library Report
Between the threads of this tightly woven narrative, Engman manages to bring to life a whole gallery of characters who are very likable yet no less complex—all of them memorable, even the minor ones.
– Télérama
The reason for [Ahnhem’s] success is simple: he writes like a god and keeps us on the torture rack until the very last page. /…/ Generation Zero has all the ingredients to be this summer’s big crime novel. It is thrilling, realistic, and impossible to put down.
– Nettavisen
This novel explores the different facets of a divorce in order to examine all the little things that extinguish love. Fascinating.
– Version Femina
A touching and poignant tale of an aging father and his middle-aged daughter, exploring themes of nurturing and reconciliation, and the profound layers of life often hidden from those closest to us – a story about love, and about making things right, before it’s too late.