Jo Nesbø’s Macbeth is No. 2 on this week’s Sunday Times bestseller list for hardcover fiction.
The official Norwegian bestseller lists for the first week of April have been released, and Jo Nesbø’s Macbeth continues its reign at the top, coming in at No. 1 on the hardcover and e-book lists. Jørn Lier Horst & Hans Jørgen Sandnes’ long-running bestseller, Operation Shipwreck, also stays put at No. 3 on the hardcover list. Meanwhile, Kristina Ohlsson continues to feature high up on the paperback bestseller list, this week with The Disappeared at No. 5.
The official Swedish bestseller lists for the last week of March have just been released. Jo Nesbø’s The Thirst climbs to No. 5 on the hardcover list for fiction, while Niklas Natt och Dag’s 1793 claims the No. 3 spot on the paperback list.
The official Norwegian bestseller lists for the last week of March have been announced, and Jo Nesbø’s Macbeth hasn’t budged from the No. 1 spot on the hardcover and e-book list. Just behind on the hardcover list is Jørn Lier Horst & Hans Jørgen Sandnes’ long-running bestseller, Operation Shipwreck, at No. 3. Arne Dahl’s Watching You meanwhile comes in at No. 5 on the e-book list. Kristina Ohlsson continues to feature high up on the paperback bestseller list with her Unwanted, No. 3 this week.
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March’s list of the most sold children’s books in Norway is out, and Jørn Lier Horst & Hans Jørgen Sandnes once again feature heavily at the top. At No. 1 is their most recent Detective Agency No. 2 book, Operation Shipwreck. Operation Mummy comes in not far after, at No. 4. Finally, at No. 5, is Jørn Lier Horst’s The Triangle Mystery, the twelfth CLUE book.
Jo Nesbø’s Blood on Snow is the big winner of the 2017 Translated Mystery Awards in Japan, taking home both the Best Translated Mystery Award and the Best Translated Mystery – Reader’s Choice Award. The Best Translated Mystery Award winner is chosen by a jury of professional translators, while the latter is chosen by a group comprised of readers and translators alike.
An about-to-hit-forty cancer ward nurse in Iceland, Kata is a woman destined for a journey of revenge. After her teenage daughter Vala goes missing, Kata throws herself into work to forget. When her daughter’s body is found at last, Kata learns the awful truth of the horrors that she suffered before dying. And as Kata listens, it’s as if her world begins to gently shift out of focus, tilt off its axis: The odyssey begins. The end destination is justice, but even more so, revenge. Revenge on her daughter’s murderers, and on all men who abuse women. Because vengeance is not a male privilege, though the hand throwing the acid nearly always is. Acting according to the device “Until men’s and women’s rights are equal, women will submit their own agenda: Defence, Punishment and Sisterhood,” Kata begins the bloody process of reclaiming womankind’s right to avenge injustices, and themselves.
When Steinar Bragi began the research work for his novel Kata, he was shocked and appalled by the Icelandic statistics for crime against women, in particular that of sexual assault cases. Kata is a novel born out of this shock, and the raw horror that hides behind the figures.
Kristina Ohlsson’s internationally bestselling crime novels about Fredrika Bergman are being turned into a TV series set to air on TV4 and C More. Sthlm Requiem, as the series will be called, will star Liv Mjönes, Jonas Karlsson and Alexej Manvelov in the lead roles.
“To see your books filmatized is the dream of every author. I’m ecstatic that such a solid venture has been made for my Fredrika Bergman crime novels. The cast is just lovely and Liv Mjönes is perfect in the role of Fredrika,” says Kristina Ohlsson.
Sthlm Requiem will be a ten-episode series, and premiere in 2019. The series will be directed by Karin Fahlén and Lisa Ohlin.
Just published in Norway last week, Jo Nesbø’s Macbeth goes straight to No. 1 on both the hardcover fiction bestseller list and e-book list. Nesbø is joined at the top by Kristina Ohlsson, whose Unwanted climbs yet again, coming in at No. 1 this week. Jørn Lier Horst & Hans Jørgen Sandnes’ thirteenth Detective Agency No. 2 book, Operation Shipwreck, comes in just below on the hardcover fiction list, claiming the No. 3 spot. Heine Bakkeid’s second novel about the haunted former interrogator Thorkild Aske, Meet Me in Paradise, features at No. 4 on the e-book list.
North Macedonia, Antolog
Two-book deal closed by Emma Granberg
North Macedonia, Antolog
Two-book deal closed by Emma Granberg
China, Beijing ST
Closed by Emma Granberg
Arab World, Al Arabi
Closed by Emma Granberg
Spain, Duomo
Closed by Linda Andersson
UK, Bloomsbury
Closed by Josephine Oxelheim
Baasmo is remarkable in the leading role. There’s something about him that makes us feel a kind of desperate sympathy for him, even when he’s at his worst.
– VG
This [adult fiction] debut is captivating – and at times frighteningly relatable. /…/ Villadsen has written a gripping plot, and the reader is on edge from the first page.
– Littuna.nu
Calm, methodical, and quietly gripping – classic Nordic noir precision.
– The i Paper
[SON is] definitely a promising start of a series. And the double cliffhanger right at the very end is masterful and elevates the final score another notch.
– Adresseavisen
Andrzej Tichý’s novel about a Sweden in dissolution challenges both the conventional novel form and the belief that social reforms are of any use whatsoever. /…/ Book of Events is a rejection of the notion of a central perspective. This is the literary form of social disintegration. This is literature that, also stylistically, seeks to reveal the collapse of social democratic Sweden.
– Politiken
Diamonds and Rust is a story about wounds that never heal, about envy, betrayal and revenge, and about a crime so well and thoroughly thought out that it may never be solved. Not unless Hanne Wilhelmsen gets a chance to try.