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The Finnish bestsellers list of the summer is out, and we’re delighted to see several of our very own authors in the Top 20: Max Seeck’s Milo series has topped the bestsellers list of the summer, and more Ahlbäck authors and titles are on the list and getting some much-deserved spotlight.
The Milo series follows criminal profiler turned gallerist Milo Perho as he is called in to help the police solve a chilling and baffling crime, in which a victim is found covered in white paint and with a piece of chess in her throat. It is the beginning of a dangerous series of events and no-one, not even Milo, is safe.
The series consists of Checkmate (#1), Betrayed (#2), and Guarded (#3). Each installment has been a bestseller in its own right, and Guarded alone has sold 35.000 copies in under three months.
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Tuomas Niskakangas’ The Sealed Case is at #5, proving that his newest Department K series has quickly found its readership. The next volume in the series, The Forgotten Name (Department K #2) is due out in October, and interest continues to grow both domestically and internationally. The Department K series follows a disgraced journalist, Joel, who finds himself entangled in a suspicious case: a firm seems to be making illegal deals with Russia. As he follows this thread Joel meets Petra, a corporate lawyer who has her own reasons to be interested in the case and is conducting an investigation of her own on a missing child’s case from the 1990s. As the investigation deepens, Petra and Joel are drawn into a tightening web of lies and espionage—where the deadly strings are pulled by the mysterious Department K.
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Annukka Salama’s Taken Wild (Wild Heart #1) sits comfortably at #12, and has already sold over 10.000 copies in under two months. Taken Wild is a white-hot romance where opposites attract: trendy city girl Viola arrives in the countryside with a scandal on her heels after years in Brussels, and she meets Luka, a country man at heart who is sinfully handsome and seems to push all of her buttons. Is he just annoying, or could there be sparks in the air?
Taken Wild is already turning heads internationally, and has just scored its first foreign deal.
With the Wild Heart series Salama brings the hugely popular country romance genre to Finland, and the result is steamy enough to power readers through the coldest of winters.
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Elina Backman is found at #19 with The One Left Alone, the awaited return of the Saana Havas series. Backman needs no introductions: her Saana Havas series sold over 210.000 copies in Finland alone, with rights sold to 17 territories and counting.
In The One Left Alone Saana and Jan are back and preparing for a new chapter in their life together. When Saana travels to see her aunt a shallow grave is found in the woods, and her curiosity is immediately piqued. Meanwhile Jan and his colleagues take a closer look at a cold case and are left to wonder whether the police got the right person all those years ago. Could the cases be connected? The One Left Alone is powerful and atmospheric crime novel from the queen of Finnish thrillers—about youthful fervor and a love that was never spoken of.
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Tuokko Kaisu is at #20 with Betrayal, the fourth novel in the popular Kristinestad murders series. The series follows journalist Eevi and police officer Mads as they investigate crimes in a seemingly idyllic town and navigate complicated and long-suppressed feelings for each other.
In Betrayal the summer market in July in Kristinestad takes a shocking turn when a young man’s body is found inside a market tent. The victim’s identity is shrouded in mystery, but his phone contains an unexpected clue: Eevi Manner’s number.
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Warm congratulations to the authors on their success, and don’t miss out on these titles!
GUARDED (Milo #3)
Varjeltu
Tammi 2026, 350 pp.
Rights sold:
FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
GREECE: Memento LP
LATVIA: Latvijas Mediji
NORWAY: Aschehoug AS
SWEDEN: Modernista
Reading material:
Full English translation + synopsis, Finnish edition
THE SEALED CASE (Department K #1)
Suljettu kansio
Rights sold:
FINLAND: WSOY (orig.)
GERMANY: Bastei Lübbe
GREECE: Memento
Reading materials:
Finnish Edition
English sample + full English draft translation
English synopsis
TAKEN WILD
Villinä viety
Otava 2026, 351 pp.
Rights sold:
FINLAND: Otava (orig.)
ESTONIA: Ühinenud Ajakirjad
Reading materials:
English sample and full draft translation
English synopsis
Finnish edition
English synopsis for the sequel
THE ONE LEFT ALONE (Saana Havas series #6)
Otava 2026, 400 pp
Rights sold:
FINLAND: Otava (orig.)
BETRAYAL (KRISTINESTAD MURDERS #4)
Petos
Otava 2026, 300 pp.
Rights sold:
FINLAND: Otava (orig.)
DENMARK: Gyldendal Astra
