The nominees for the most important award in Norwegian crime literature, the Riverton Prize 2024, were announced during the opening of the Crime Festival. Among them was Nikolaj Frobenius’ Extinction.
Jonathan Svane is absolutely certain about who was behind the arson that claimed the life of his little son. It was the prison bird Damm and his “violent left hand” Øyen, with a motive to harm the Svane family. However, the police lack evidence, and the murderers go free. Jonathan is tormented by grief. A journalistic assignment leads him to the Spanish coast, where Norwegians operate in the shadows, including the young investor Lekmann, the interviewee, who had been missing for a long time and claims not to know where he has been. Jonathan decides to surveil Lekmann, and suddenly Øyen appears. Jonathan is obsessed with seeking revenge; it’s a powerful driving force, and certain inevitable events unfold as Jonathan takes risks to get closer to the evil.
Frobenius’ concise psychological thriller has elegant twists, and a quivering sense of unease, charged by the protagonist’s worldview, builds up.
Congratulations to Nikolaj Frobenius!
After careful consideration of several production companies, Anne Elvedal has chosen Monster to develop a TV series based on her critically acclaimed psychological thriller, You Can Call Me Jan.
Anne Elvedal’s gripping psychological thriller You Can Call Me Jan has earned its place on both Adresseavisa’s and NRK’s prestigious lists of the best books of the year.
The Knit Awards took place this weekend, and two of our amazing Knitting Book authors walked away with prestigious prizes.
“‘You Can Call Me Jan’ is a masterfully written thriller that draws you deeper and deeper into the heroine’s dark world,” says Claudia Winkler, senior fiction editor at Jo Nesbø’s German publishing house, Ullstein Verlag.
We congratulate Anders Totland with his nomination for Bokslukerprisen 2024!