Kristina Ohlsson’s The Flood – the sixth installment in her Fredrika Bergman series – is now No. 1 on the bestseller list of the biggest Swedish bookstore chain, Akademibokhandeln.
Jo Nesbø’s The Thirst was published in Croatia last week and is No. 1 on the Croatian bestseller list this week. Italy published the novel late last month and it has reached the No. 2 spot on Italy’s official bestseller list for hardcover fiction, all genres, and No. 1 on the Italian e-book list, all genres.
Jo Nesbø’s The Thirst continues to top the bestseller lists, hitting No. 1 also in Slovakia and Poland. The novel is now No. 1 in five countries: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Slovakia and Poland.
Jo Nesbø’s I Am Victor has been acquired by Fredrik Wikström Nicastro at SF Studios, who will produce the project together with Icelandic director and producer Baltasar Kormákur for RVK Studios. Kormákur (Everest, Contraband, 2 Guns) is also attached to direct and James Bond screenwriters Neal Purvis and Robert Wade are adapting the screenplay. Jo Nesbø and Niclas Salomonsson are Executive Producers on the project.
Purvis and Wade have been the 007’s go-to scriptwriters going back to 1999’s The World Is Not Enough. Their last feature collaboration was on 2015’s Spectre, and they are thought to be reteaming on Bond 25.
I Am Victor is an upcoming novel by Jo. It’s a thriller about a skilled but morally corrupt and narcissistic divorce attorney. When he finds himself framed for a series of brutal murders, he embarks on his own investigation to find the killer.
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Fredrik Backman’s A Man Called Ove comes in at No. 3 on the New York Times Best Seller List. This marks the 66th week for A Man Called Ove on the list. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry likewise stays on the list at No. 9 in its 50th week. On the combined print and eBook list, A Man Called Ove rises to No. 5, which marks its 45th week on that particular list.
It’s now official that the film rights to Jo Nesbø’s critically acclaimed, stand-alone novel Blood on Snow have been acquired by Tobey Maguire’s production company MATERIAL and Lawrence Grey’s Grey Matter Productions.
Together with Maguire’s MATERIAL partner Matthew Plouffe, they will produce a feature film adaptation with actor and producer Tobey Maguire looking to direct the project.
Jo Nesbø will adapt the screenplay based on his own book. Nesbø and Niclas Salomonsson are Executive Producers on the project.
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Jo Nesbø’s eleventh installment in the Harry Hole series, The Thirst, has upon publication gone straight to No. 1 in all three territories of Norway, Sweden and Denmark.
The fourth and final season of The Bridge is set to premiere on January 1st 2018 on Swedish broadcasting network SVT. The season will consist of 8 episodes, and start where season three ended.
The TV series The Bridge, written by Hans Rosenfeldt, has aired in more than 170 countries and been successfully remade into a US version sharing the same name, as well as a British and French version called The Tunnel.
Why Did You Lie? by Yrsa Sigurdardóttir and The Dying Detective by Leif GW Persson are both shortlisted for the Petrona Award 2017 for ‘Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year’.
The judges praise Sigurdardóttir’s Why Did You Lie?, calling it “A compelling exploration of guilt and retribution, which builds to a nerve-jangling finale.”
They are equally impressed by Persson’s The Dying Detective: “Expertly plotted and highly gripping, The Dying Detective features characters from a number of other crime novels by the author, but succeeds brilliantly as a standalone in its own right.”
The winner of the Petrona Award 2017 will be announced on May 20th.
Published by Host late last month, Lars Kepler’s sixth installment in the Joona Linna series, The Rabbit Hunter, is now No. 1 on the official bestseller list for hardcover fiction in the Czech Republic this month.
Bulgaria, EMAS
Two-book deal closed by Emma Granberg
Greece, Memento
Closed by Emma Granberg
China, Beijing Science and Technology
Five-book deal closed by The Grayhawk Agency on behalf of Ida Schabbauer
Poland, Smak Slowa
Two-book deal closed by Julia Angelin
Lithuania, Pflaŭmbaŭm Publishing House
Closed by Emma Granberg
Germany, Hoffmann und Campe
Closed by Julia Angelin
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– Göteborgs-Posten
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