Eva Frantz’s Anna Glad series is travelling to Bulgaria where it will be published by Perseus, who acquired the rights in a five-book deal.
Crime readers rejoice: the successful Anna Glad series by Eva Frantz is continuing its journey out into the world, and is now travelling to Bulgaria, where it will be published by Perseus.
The Anna Glad series follows detective Anna Glad, a refreshingly relatable 30-something police officer based on the western, Swedish-speaking coast of Finland. Her cases are the perfect middle way between hard-boiled Nordic noirs and cozy crime and have been reviewed as Strömsö noir: Anna Glad and her team investigate serious, violent crimes, but enough space is given to the characters’ daily lives and struggles that some comic relief is present, and there’s room for reflections that go beyond the scope of the single bloody event.
The series peaked last summer with Then Die Contentedly, a masterfully composed detective story where nothing is as it seems. It follows four old friends who gather for a late summer party and spend the night under the same roof, but the following morning only two of them wake up: one of them is missing, and the other is lying dead in the pool. The victim, a star lawyer who’d just divorced an abusive husband, knew a lot of secrets about the people in her life, but as the investigation continues it turns out that she was the one with the most secrets to hide.
The previous books in the series, Blue Villa (#1), The Eighth Maiden (#2), Out of the Game(#3), and You Will Not Take My Child(#4), have become readers’ favourite in Finland, selling over 100.000 copies, and gathering rave reviews. The series has already travelled to Denmark, Estonia, Germany and Norway.
Perseus is a Bulgarian publishing house with a broad selection of great international literature. Their list includes the works of Tom Egeland, Jan Guillou, Sofi Oksanen, and Kjell Westö, to name a few.
Congratulations to the author and the publisher!