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The Spider

They are already stuck in the spider’s web.

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23 September 2024

‘The Sleepwalker’ published in Sweden

An emergency call comes  in the middle of the night, reporting an ongoing burglary at a winter-closed camping site in Bredäng outside Stockholm.The nearest police car responds to the call. There is a light on in one of the fartherst caravans in the otherwise dark area, and when the officers open the door to the caravan, they are […]

2 October 2023

Lars Kepler ‘Crime Author of the Year’

Lars Kepler is the winner of the 2023 Crime Author of the Year award, bestowed by BookBeat and the Crimetime Festival. The award is based on statistics from the three latest audiobooks by Swedish crime authors during the last 12 months and the winner was announced this weekend during an award ceremony at the Gothenburg Book Fair. […]

17 August 2023

’The Spider’ No. 6 in Canada

The ninth installment in Lars Kepler’s Joona Linna series, The Spider, has debuted at No. 6 on the Canadian national newspaper The Globe and Mail’s bestseller list.

3 February 2023

Zazie Beetz & Tom Hardy to star in Apple drama series ‘Lazarus’ based on Lars Kepler’s novels, with Øystein Karlsen to write and direct

Oscar nominee Tom Hardy (The Revenant, Mad Max: Fury Road) and Emmy nominee Zazie Beetz (Joker, Atlanta) are set to star in early-in-the-works Apple TV+ drama series Lazarus, based on Lars Kepler’s Joona Linna novels, with Øystein Karlsen to write, executive produce and direct the series. The project is a co-production between A+E Studios and Range Studios and being sold to Apple. In the series, an emaciated […]

18 November 2022

‘The Spider’ No. 1 in the Netherlands

Lars Kepler’s The Spider, the ninth installment in the Joona Linna series, was just published in the Netherlands and has entered the official Dutch bestseller list for hardcover crime & thrillers at No. 1.

16 November 2022

The Adlibris Awards 2022

The nominees for 2022’s Adlibris Awards have been announced and Lars Kepler’s The Spider is shortlisted in the Crime Fiction category. Adlibris is the leading book retailer in the Nordics and the Adlibris Award was founded in 2019 to celebrate the site’s greatest titles. The 10 nominated titles in the 9 respective categories have been selected by […]

3 November 2022

‘The Spider’ No. 1 in Norway

Lars Kepler’s The Spider is No. 1 on the official weekly bestseller list for hardcover fiction in Norway. The novel comes in first on the e-book list as well.

28 October 2022

‘The Spider’ No. 1 in Sweden

Lars Kepler’s just published The Spider shoots to No. 1 on the weekly Swedish bestseller list for hardcovers.

26 October 2022

‘The Spider’ No. 1 in Norway

Lars Kepler’s The Spider, the just published ninth book about Joona Linna, debuts at No. 1 on the official Norwegian bestseller list for e-books. The novel comes in at No. 5 on the fiction list.

19 October 2022

‘The Spider’ published in Sweden

Three years ago, Saga Bauer received a postcard with a threating message about a gun with nine white bullets – one of them intended for Joona Linna – and Saga was the only one that could save him. Saga showed the postcard to Joona, but time passed and the threat faded as a meaningless provocation. […]