Arne Dahl’s Hinterlands climbs the German Der Spiegel bestseller list again, coming in at No. 4 in the paperback category. This is Hinterlands’ eighth week on the list.
Eighteen Below Zero, Stefan Ahnhem’s third Fabian Risk novel, is No. 1 also this week on the official Norwegian bestseller list for paperback novels.
Operation Mummy meanwhile comes in at No. 4 on the official bestseller list for fiction, all genres. Operation Mummy is the twelfth installment in Jørn Lier Horst & Hans Jørgen Sandnes’ Detective Agency No. 2 series.
Thomas Engström’s award-winning novel about Ludwig Licht, former Stasi agent and CIA informant, is to be made into a TV series for the international market.
West of Liberty, the title of both novel and TV series, takes place in among else Berlin, where the arrest of the corrupt leader of a whistleblowing site has thrown the city into turmoil. Clive Barner, chief of the CIA’s Berlin office and Ludwig Licht’s old contact when he worked as a double agent in the 1970s, calls in Licht. The former informant turned barkeep and freelance problem solver has to pray his old skills haven’t rusted as he’s pulled back into the shadow world of those who make a living finding – and killing for – intelligence.
The TV series will consist of six episodes of 45 minutes. Sara Heldt and Donna Sharp have written the script, and Barbara Eder will direct when shooting starts in spring 2018. Producers are Anagram Sverige AB and Network Movie (Germany). The TV series is already sold to YLE in Finland and TV2 in Norway.
Arne Dahl’s Hinterlands, the sequel to the international bestseller Watching You, is No. 5 on Der Spiegel’s bestseller list for paperback fiction. Hinterlands has now featured on the German bestseller list for seven weeks.
Jo Nesbø’s The Snowman is No. 2 on the Sunday Times bestseller list. The Snowman is the seventh installment in the Harry Hole series.
Jo Nesbø’s The Snowman, the seventh installment in the Harry Hole series, is No. 1 on the paperback bestseller list at Bog & idé. Arne Dahl’s Watching You claims the No. 4 spot on the same list. At Arnold Busck Hinterlands, the second installment in Arne Dahl’s series about Berger and Blom, is No. 4 on the crime fiction list while Watching You climbs to No. 2 on the paperback list. Bog & idé and Arnold Busck are the two biggest book retailers in Denmark.
Katrine Engberg has been shortlisted for the 2017 Author of the Year Award by the Danish book chain Plusbog. The winner will be announced at Bogforum in Copenhagen on November 10th.
Indie production company No Trace Camping is set to produce Fredrik Backman’s novella The Deal of a Lifetime. The book, to be published in the US by Atria on October 31st, tells the story of a man who’s sacrificed his family in his single-minded pursuit of success, and the courageous little girl fighting for her life who crosses his path.
Jeff Arkuss, David Gross and Jesse Shapira of No Trace Camping will produce the picture, while Backman, Neda Shafti Backman and Tor Jonasson will serve as executive producers.
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Eighteen Below Zero stays at No. 1 on the official Norwegian bestseller list for paperback novels. Eighteen Below Zero is the third installment in Stefan Ahnhem’s Fabian Risk series.
Celebrating one month on the German Der Spiegel bestseller list for hardcover fiction, Jo Nesbø’s The Thirst this week comes in at No. 3. Arne Dahl’s Hinterlands likewise comes in at No. 3, in the paperback category.
Netherlands, Het Spectrum
Closed by Josephine Oxelheim
Lithuania, Baltos Lankos
Three-book deal closed by Emma Granberg
Estonia, Pegasus
Three-book deal closed by Emma Granberg
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
Exquisitely plotted, darkly funny /…/Readers will have no doubt they’re in the hands of a brilliant storyteller. This soars.
– Publishers Weekly *Starred Review*
With echoes of such writers as Carl Hiaasen and Christopher Brookmyre, this is delicious stuff, expertly juggling dark humour and quirky characterisation against the backdrop of a frigid northern landscape.
– Financial Times
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
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.