Month: October 2023

Thrilling news for our crime readers: the Anna Glad series by Eva Frantz will be continuing in Germany, as Aufbau has recently acquired even the 4th book in the series, You Will Not Take My Child.

In the 4th instalment of the series Anna Glad is juggling her roles as a parent of a toddler and a senior detective, with varying degrees of success. There are several suspicious deaths happening around the city, a school secretary is missing and something is at odds at the closed school building, soon to be demolished. Anna’s partner Tomas, stay-at-home dad, is like a rock to lean on, but is he a little too interested in the life of his new friend playground parent friend Mimmi Sandberg? Mimmi is 4-year-old Veera’s foster mother, and now Veera’s biological mother wants her custody back. Is Mimmi’s home as safe as she herself wants to believe?

Congratulations to the author!

Fantastic news from the Turku Book Fair: Matara by Matias Riikonen has been awarded the Jarkko Laine prize.

The jury has motivated their choice as follows:

“In Matara by Matias Riikonen boys under the age of 15 spend long summer days in a present-day forest in Finland, where they have built the republic of Matara. The state, which strongly reminds of Ancient Rome, is built on rules, hierarchies and systems which are portrayed with startling intensity. In this violent world rules are followed even when it comes to fighting and on the side of struggles for power loyalty, friendship, fun and games emerge. The detailed description of the boys’ world, the precision of their observations, the flow of the story and the emotional thrill are successfully realized in Riikonen’s striking prose”.

Matara has already been acquired in Denmark and Hungary, and for World French and German, and it has been previously awarded the Torch-Bearer prize.

In Finland the book is published by Teos.

Warmest congratulations to the author!