Publishing Deal - Ake Edwardson

A publishing deal for Ake Edwardson was announced recently on Publishers Lunch:

Ake Edwardson's SAIL OF STONE and ROOM NO. 10, originally published by Norstedts and selling over 5 million copies worldwide in 21 countries, to Bob Bender at Simon & Schuster, in a very nice deal, for publication in 2011 and beyond, by Peter Riva at International Transactions (world English).

Penguin US have recently published the first in the DCI Erik Winter series, Death Angels and will publish The Shadow Woman in September, which I believe is book two in the series. Cover and blurb aren't available at the moment.

Both titles: Sail of Stone and Room No. 10 are Erik Winter books. Looking at Ake Edwardson's website (in Swedish) Sail of Stone is the sixth in the series and possibly Room No. 10 is the seventh.

Another first book in a series receives translation

Recently we've had Vargas's first Adamsberg (The Chalk Circle Man) and Nesser's first Van Veteeren (The Mind's Eye) published after a number of later entries in the series have been translated. And now it's the turn of DCI Erik Winter...Penguin US are publishing Ake Edwardson's first Winter novel - Death Angels on 29 September.

Synopsis from amazon.com: A long-time number one bestseller in his native Sweden, Åke Edwardson’s profile was conspicuously raised when his novel Frozen Tracks was chosen as a finalist for a 2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Until now, however, the novel that launched Edwardson’s critically acclaimed Erik Winter series has never been available in the United States. With a new series translator who fully captures Edwardson’s signature atmospheric style, Death Angels is America’s introduction to Sweden’s youngest Chief Inspector as he teams up with Scotland Yard to solve the mysterious parallel killings of young British and Swedish tourists. Richly evocative of mid-nineties South London and Gothenburg, Sweden, Death Angels is a brilliant opening to a mesmerizing series that has become a phenomenon in international crime fiction.

The translator for Death Angels is Ken Schubert. Laurie Thompson has translated the three already available. My bibliography for Ake Edwardson is a little out of date as I hadn't realised this was #1 in the series.

Reviews: Cordy, Edwardson, Franklin, Sapper, White, Winspear

There are three competitions running this month; the prizes are: The Third Pig Detective Agency by Bob Burke, Relics of the Dead by Ariana Franklin and Blood Law by Steven Hague (some restrictions apply).

Here are this week's reviews, which stick a bit closer to home this time round:

Michelle Peckham reviews the mass market paperback edition of The Source by Michael Cordy summing it up as "one for the beach";

Maxine Clarke reviews the paperback edition of Frozen Tracks by Ake Edwardson writing that it "a satisfying read, both in terms of plot and characterisation";

Norman Price reviews Relics of the Dead by Ariana Franklin (apa Grave Goods in the US). He finds lead character Adelia "a beguiling heroine in a fascinating historical setting" (Win a copy this month);

Rik Shepherd is unimpressed by Bulldog Drummond by Sapper wondering why it's such a 'classic';

Amanda Gillies reports that it's business as usual in Neil White's strong Garrett/McGanity series, of which Last Rites is the third

and Terry Halligan praises Jacqueline Winspear highly for her latest Maisie Dobbs outing, Among the Mad.

Previous reviews can be found in the review archive and forthcoming titles can be found here.

Euro Crime Website - new reviews & updates

This week's major updates to the Euro Crime website are:

The 'Reviews' page has been updated with reviews of 'Sun and Shadow' by Ake Edwardson and 'Punishment' by Anne Holt.

In 'Books', I've added bibliographies for the following: Elbur Ford and Jan Guillou and I've updated the bibliographies for: Michael David Anthony and Hakan Nesser.

The 'News' page has been updated with links to this weekend's reviews and articles.