The brilliant screenwriter duo, Siv Rajendram Eliassen and Anna Bache-Wiig, behind the highly successful TV series Acquitted (2015-2016) and the praised feature film U -July 22 (2018), are now further establishing their position as storytellers with a strong and societally engaging voice.

Their new TV series Witch Hunt is the story of how one single action can trigger a scandal of national proportions with consequences affecting all the way up to Norway’s elite society. With a focus on power struggles and corruption, Rajendram Eliassen and Bache-Wiig delve deep into the psychological, relational and political consequences of whistleblowing.

Witch Hunt is produced by Miso Film Norway and will premiere on TV 2 Norway in early 2020.

NRK’s new series For Life and 22 July will both make their debut at the Cannes fall content market, the largest TV market in the world.

For Life, created by Gjermund Stenberg Eriksen, is a highly innovative crime series set in two timelines: in present day, as we follow investigator Victoria Woll, solving cases and putting criminals behind bars, and in the future, when she herself has been incarcerated. For Life will premiere on NRK in spring 2020.

NRK’s other anticipated series, 22 July, created by Sara Johnsen and Pål Sletaune, explores how ordinary people responded to the tragedy of July 22nd, 2011, when a heavily armed right-wing terrorist attacked a summer camp full of youths. 22 July will premiere on NRK January 2020.

The monthly Icelandic bestseller list for August sees Liza Marklund’s Black Pearl Farm land the No. 3 spot. The No. 4 position is claimed by Lina Bengtsdotter’s Annabelle.

Maja Säfström’s The Illustrated Compendium of Amazing Animal Facts has reached the No. 2 spot on the official Czech bestseller list for week 38 in the children’s and YA books category.

The journalistic thriller Quick, which is based on Hannes Råstam’s book Thomas Quick: The Making of a Serial Killer, premiered last week and has received great reviews in the Swedish press.

“An intense cinematic experience without a single dull moment.”
–Aftonbladet

“So thrilling it will undoubtedly have you twisting and turning in your seat.”
–Filmeye

“Visually stunning.”
–Göteborgs-Posten

“A thrilling and well-performed crime drama. /…/ Quick stands out from the crowd.”
–Filmtopp.se

“Dark, dazzling, top-level acting.”
–SVT Kulturnyheter

In Sofi Oksanen’s The Dog Park, modern-day Helsinki intertwines with the past of Ukraine’s post-Soviet independence. The corruption of the East meets and feeds the greed of the West, and at this intersection stand two women. Their story of loyalty, love and broken trust play out against a backdrop of power struggles – between influential families, and between the sexes as the lifegiving ability of the female body becomes a lucrative commodity.

Oksanen moves between psychological thriller and the acutely human as she weaves a captivating narrative about a woman unable to escape the memory of her lost child, the powers that still hunt her, and the lies that saved her life. Sharply observant and a master of portraits, this time Oksanen turns her eye to the fertility business, illustrating the micro-realities of the international baby-making factories.

Selma Falck wakes to a nightmare. She’s naked and trapped in a burning cabin on a snow-covered mountain. She has no idea where she is or how she got there. Hurt and bleeding, she barely makes it out in time. Wearing nothing more than a pair of oversized rubber boots, she watches the cabin burn to the ground. There are no signs of human habitation nearby, the temperature is rapidly dropping, and a blizzard is approaching. She must survive.

As Selma fights the cold, the hunger and her own wounds, it comes back to her in bits and pieces. She tries to put it all together, and eventually it forms a frightening picture of the past six months. Selma realizes that she not only has to survive, but make it back to civilization, quickly. Murder has been committed, and a great injustice must be stopped. The future of the nation itself is at stake.

A Necessary Death is the second installment in Anne Holt’s Selma Falck series.