When 19-year old Sunniva Linje is found dead beneath the ice near her family’s winter cabin, the police quickly determine her death an accident. But Sunniva’s mother Ada refuses to accept that explanation. Ada’s suspicions are quickly directed towards the neighbors in the cabin next door, the Hellevik family and the guest they hosted that weekend – media tycoon Martin Raa.

Then Raa goes missing without a trace and just a week later Gabriel Hellevik, Raa’s business partner, commits suicide. When Aftonposten-journalist Nora Klemetsen receives an anonymous tip accusing Raa of murder, she is also drawn into the case – until she herself mysteriously collapses from a suspected overdose.

Former journalist Henning Juul has lived a quiet life in Copenhagen for many years. But when he hears what has happened to Nora, the great love of his life, he returns to Oslo. Could Nora have unearthed a truth that someone desperately has tried to bury?

With Weeds Thomas Enger makes an epic return to his iconic Henning Juul-universe. It’s an intense triller about what injustice and loss can make people do – and about the past, which never really goes away.

Norwegian writer-director Nina Knag’s acclaimed feature debut Se meg (Don’t Call Me Mama) has received four nominations for the 2026 Amanda Awards, Norway’s most prestigious film awards.

The film has been nominated for Best Director for Nina Knag, Best Actress in a Leading Role for Pia Tjelta, Best Supporting Actor for Tarek Zayat, and Best Cinematography for Alvilde Horjen Naterstad, highlighting both the film’s artistic achievements and the strength of its performances.

The psychological drama, which premiered in the main competition at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 2025, has earned widespread critical acclaim both in Norway and internationally.

The winners of the 2026 Amanda Awards will be announced during the Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund on August 22.

Season 2 of the acclaimed Franco-Iranian drama series Happiness, created and written by Yashar Alishenas and Pouria Takavar for Arte, has won the Audience Award at Seriencamp 2026, one of Europe’s leading festivals dedicated to television series.

Happiness season 2 had its world premiere at Series Mania, and will have its streaming premiere on Arte on June 29.

The Clan, the first installment in Pascal Engman’s Clan Trilogy, jumps to No. 1 on this week’s paperback list.

It’s better to have flared up and burned out than to never have been ignited at all. Of that, I am convinced. 

When Hanna’s grandmother dies, she cries for the first time in almost twenty years. The last time she did so was on the day her friend Elizabeth disappeared.

Elizabeth crashes into Hanna’s life like a dazzling comet when Hanna is sixteen. Both are children of divorce, raised between different cultures. Suddenly, life takes on new color, and the worldly, free-spirited Eliza quickly draws Hanna out of her shell. Together, they are unstoppable. Until everything spirals out of control, and it becomes impossible to tell love from obsession, or friendship from betrayal.

Elizabeth the Third is a contemporary novel infused with suspense, delving into family relationships, the search for belonging, and a toxic friendship that changes everything.

Pascal Engman’s The War rockets to No. 1 on the official bestseller list for hardcover fiction. The War is the second installment in the Clan Trilogy. Engman also features on the paperback list, where he comes in at No. 3 for the second week in a row with The Clan, the series’ first installment.

Also on the hardcover list is Anders & Anette de la Motte’s just published Rivals in Rome, which secures the No. 2 spot. Rivals in Rome is the third book in the Murders Under the Sun series.

Kristina Ohlsson’s Nightshifter is No. 2 in paperback. Nightshifter is the fifth installment in the August Strindberg series.

Lisa Ridzén’s lauded debut When the Cranes Fly South has officially been announced as the No.1 most sold translated fiction title in the UK thus far in 2026, in a report just published by The Bookseller. The UK edition is published by Doubleday and translated by Alice Menzies.