Aamos Honka Awarded with the BookBeat’s Newcomer of the Year Award!

We have excellent news as CRIMSON WEB by Aamos Honka has won the BookBeat’s Newcomer of the Year Award 2025! The award is based entirely on data from BookBeat’s 350,000 Finnish users. It is based on both the hours listened to in the BookBeat app and the ratings given by users.

“There are many good authors of this genre in Finland, and it’s wonderful to be among them. It’s also great that the subject is so interesting to Finns these days, even in fiction, that I ended up being named Newcomer of the Year. A warm thank you to all my listeners.”
– Aamos Honka, author CRIMSON WEB and ARTICLE 5

This timely, credible thriller, set in the inner circle of the intelligence world, captivated its audience from the moment it was published selling close to 20,000 copies. The intelligent, high-stakes espionage thriller blends psychological depth, geopolitical relevance, and pulse-pounding action offering readers a fresh Finnish perspective on global intelligence conflict. Originally published in Finland in January, Crimson Web has been one of the bestselling fiction titles in Finland and has received outstanding reviews from the critics and the readers:

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Crimson Web

Aamos Honka

A frighteningly topical debut thriller from an insider in the intelligence world, revealing the hidden heart of secrets ops and hybrid warfare.

Planes collide in London. Electricity and information networks are attacked in Finland. Janne Peura from military intelligence and Laura Vesterinen from the Finnish Security and Intelligence Service track down signs of foreign power operations. When Janne and Laura’s lines cross, they take on major roles in a high stakes international game.

Once you read the book, the news headlines will never look the same to you.

Article 5, book #2 in the Janne Peura series, is slated to be published in Finland in November 2025.