Night is about to fall as an inflatable boat sets out from the docks of Råå harbor. Onboard is a man with a sword strapped to his back. His mission has been determined by the dice: One person has to die. Who, he does not yet know.

For weeks the Helsingborg police department has been occupied by multiple parallel, complex investigations. Finally, they believe them to be solved. But when a new murder victim is discovered, the police must face the realization that everything they thought they knew, is wrong.

X Ways to Die, the fifth novel in the hit series about Fabian Risk, picks up just seconds after the end of Motive X. Stefan Ahnhem builds on his powerful crime epos and the ever-expanding universe created around Risk and his colleagues in Öresund as the reader is invited to join the final hunt for the man with the dice.

The lauded and internationally beloved children’s book author Bobbie Peers’ is now finally available to readers aged 6-9! His new easy-to-read Explorers’ Club series is a topsy-turvy ride through a fantastical new world full of humor, adventure and quirky inventions.

Book 1: The Explorers’ Club and the Marshmallow Machine

Having put the final touches to her latest invention – a globe full of fun devices – Ella finds herself suddenly sucked into the world inside the globe. As she’s falling through the sky she’s saved by Felix, an airship captain and professional “discoverer.” Felix recruits Ella for his latest mission: To find out why the all-important Marshmallow Machine has stopped working. But standing in their way are the Piranha Pirates: armed, dangerous, and very hungry for the last remaining marshmallows.

Book 2: The Explorers’ Club and the Turtle Cannon

Ella and Felix journey to the desert and to a stilt-borne city wedged among its sand dunes to discover why it has started raining turtles there. The Explorers’ Club soon discovers the robotic turtles to be part of the evil Piranha Pirates’ scheme to steal the city’s precious silver spiders. The spiders’ webs are used to make the inhabitants’ silver suits that can deflect the scorching sun, and the city will be at complete loss without them. The Club decides to lure the Piranha Pirates into a trap, but as part of that plan they first need to venture into the pirates’ terrifying fortress.

A new case for Detective Agency No. 2! And this time, it’s personal.

Oliver’s bike has been stolen, and soon more go missing. It is clear to Detective Agency No. 2 that professional bike thieves are afoot in Riverton. Luckily, Tiril, Oliver, and Ocho are there to make their lives difficult. They have found the circle within which the thieves are operating – now they just have to find the thieves themselves!

Operation Radius is the sixteenth installment in the Detective Agency No. 2 series.

It was just announced that Stina Jackson’s The Silver Road is the winner of the 2019 Book of the Year Award, presented by Bonnier’s Book Clubs. The announcement was made today, on the second day of the Gothenburg Book Fair.

Jørn Lier Horst’s Ill Will dominates the Norwegian bestseller lists of week 38, coming in at No. 1 both in hardcover and e-book. Also on the e-book list is Anne Holt’s A Necessary Death, featuring at No. 4. Hedvig Montgomery meanwhile climbs on the non-fiction list, coming in at No. 4 with The Elementary School Age.