A Higher Justice, the sixth installment in the Sebastian Bergman series by Hjorth & Rosenfeldt, is No. 5 on Der Spiegel’s list for hardcover fiction in Germany.
Psychological profiler Sebastian Bergman has come to terms with the thought that his days at the Criminal Investigation Department are over, and has returned to giving lectures and writing books. The only person from the team he has sporadic contact with is Ursula. He hasn’t heard from his daughter Vanja in four months.
Vanja is not at the Criminal Investigation Department anymore either; she’s found a temporary job as a criminal investigator in Uppsala. Since last month she is investigating a series of rapes, where the offender sneaks up behind his victims, anesthetizes them with a syringe, and places a bag over their heads before committing the assault.
When one of the victims dies, the Criminal Investigation Department is called in – and soon also Sebastian Bergman.
Reunited, the team must set aside their personal problems and conflicts to catch the brutal rapist that continues to cause fear in Uppsala. Eventually, they find clues that indicate that the victims are not randomly selected.
But what is the connection between them? And why do so many people seem to not want the perpetrator to be revealed?
A Higher Justice is the sixth installment in the internationally bestselling series about Sebastian Bergman.
Us Against You has been nominated for a Goodreads Choice Award 2018 in the ‘Best Fiction’ category.
The Goodreads Choice Awards are the only major US book awards decided by readers. The nominated authors and titles have been chosen through a process in which the Goodread team collected the statistics of all the added, rated and reviewed books from the past year. The winners will be announced on December 4.
Click “Read more” below to see the list of nominees and cast your vote.
Anders Rydell has received the Wallquist Prize with the motivation: “With impressive knowledge and great commitment, Anders highlights how the Nazis not only physically eradicated Europe’s Jews but also brutally plundered a whole cultural tradition.”
The prize awards authorships and research with a church affiliation, and it’s handed out by the Småland Academy on November 10 in Kalmar, Sweden.
Just in time for Halloween, Skybound’s Gamma Ray reveals how to make a neurocaster from Simon Stålenhag’s The Electric State in a DIY video. Happy Halloween and happy crafting!
Bobbie Peers’ short film To Plant a Flag, starring Jake Johnson and Jason Schwartzman, is the winner of the Uppsala International Short Film Festival’s UR Award. The Uppsala International Short Film Festival is Sweden’s premier short film festival.
The jury motivates its choice of To Plant a Flag thusly:
“An astonishing story where aspiring plans face unforeseen real-world obstacles. With a silly sense of humor an encounter is portrayed between dissimilar worlds where cultures and expectations collide. This wonderful fusion of excellent screenwriting, skillful acting and beautiful footage will leave the viewer with a film experience beyond the usual.”
Lars Kepler’s just published Lazarus – the seventh Joona Linna novel – scores a hat trick on the official Swedish bestseller lists this week, coming in at No. 1 on the hardcover, audio and e-book lists. Niklas Natt och Dag’s long-running bestseller The Wolf and the Watchman comes in at No. 3 on the paperback list.
Jørn Lier Horst’s second novel in the Cold Case Quartet, The Innermost Room, is No. 2 on the official bestseller lists for e-books in Norway. The book comes in at No. 3 on the hardcover list.
Anders de la Motte’s Dead of Winter, Stina Jackson’s The Silver Road and Anders Roslund’s Three Hours have been shortlisted for the prestigious 2018 Swedish Academy of Crime Writers’ Award for ‘Best Swedish Crime Novel’. Jo Nesbø’s Macbeth has been shortlisted in the second category, ‘Best Translated Crime Novel’.
The winning authors will be announced on November 25th.
Photo: Sami Kuokkanen
Acclaimed Finnish filmmaker and Oscar nominee Selma Vilhunen has rapidly gained international success with her feature films, shorts and documentaries. Her fiction feature debut Little Wing (2016) played at more than 50 festivals around the world, received wonderful reviews and was, among many prizes and nominations, awarded the Nordic Council Film Prize 2017.
Vilhunen’s most recent documentary, the praised Hobbyhorse Revolution (2017), was the winner of ‘Best Documentary’ at the 2018 Jussi Awards and her latest feature, Stupid Young Heart (2018) had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, where it was very well received.
Türkiye, Hep Kitap
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Italian, Fazi
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Taiwan, Prophet
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Czech Republic, Euromedia
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Finland, WSOY
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Czech Republic, Zlin
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