THE LAST GRUDGE and GHOST ISLAND by NYT bestselling author Max Seeck sold to Turkey!

We are happy to let you know that the Turkish rights to The Last Grudge and Ghost Island, books #3 and #4 in the Jessica Niemi series by The New York Times and Spiegel bestselling author Max Seeck, have been acquired by Doğan Kitap! The deal was closed by Sten-Erik Tammemäe at Elina Ahlbäck Literary Agency.

Doğan Kitap is part of Doğan Yayınları, one of Turkey’s leading book and magazine publishers. Doğan Kitap’s authors include Ragnar Jónasson, Lars Kepler, Tess Gerritsen, Camilla Läckberg, Jo Nesbø, Jean-Christopher Grangé, etc.

Rights for Max Seeck’s novels, including the Jessica Niemi series, have been sold to 41 territories, Max Seeck’s novels have sold more than 1,000,000 copies internationally, and have earned Max the Glass Key Award of 2023 (for The Last Grudge)! Additionally, a TV series based on the Jessica Niemi novels is in development by Greg Silverman/Stampede Ventures, while Solar Films is adapting Max’s latest novel Milo as an international TV series!

Download materials for the JESSICA NIEMI series here!

The Last Grudge

Max Seeck

Winner of the Glass Key Award 2023! The third installment in the NYT-bestselling series!

A prominent business executive Eliel Zetterborg is found brutally murdered in his home in Helsinki. The company he led has just announced drastic cutbacks and Zetterborg gained hundreds of enemies and death threats in the process.

But the murder motive become less clear, when the police finds out that the murderer had other targets as well. The only clue the police has is a photo of Zetterborg with three other men, whose faces are all scratched off. Who are the faceless men, and why can’t the police identify them? Are they other victims? Or something more sinister?

While Jessica Niemi suffers from a mental breakdown after her encounter with the witch coven, Jusuf gets a chance to lead the investigations and prove his skills as a police officer, while helping Jessica battle her demons that seem to come closer and closer…

Ghost Island

Max Seeck

The fourth title in the NYT-bestselling Jessica Niemi series!

A month after solving the Zetterborg case, Jessica Niemi is ordered on paid leave after an altercation, and she decides to travel to a small island in the Åland archipelago to escape the attention and find some peace. Meanwhile, a group of old people arrive on the same island, and Jessica learns that they are the remaining members of the Doves, the people who had to flee from Finland to Sweden during World War II and ended up living in an orphanage on the very same island.

One evening, Jessica hears a local legend about a girl who also inhabited the orphanage once, but who was mentally ill. Every night at two o’clock, the girl put on her blue coat and went to stand on the pier, waiting for something that never showed up. One night she disappeared and was never found. That same night, one of the remaining Doves dies.

Jessica soon finds out that two other people have previously faced the same fate on the same island, and all three people seem to have something to do with the girl in the blue coat. A chain of events starts to escalate, and we don’t know whether we’re facing a killer or – just like the legend says – a ghost, the girl in the blue coat.

Jessica Niemi is once again facing a scary mystery where the stakes are considerable. Whilst battling her own demons, uncertain what is real and what is not, she needs to find out the truth.