Original title: Milo
Author: Max Seeck
Published: 2024
Publisher: Tammi (orig.)
Genre: Crime & Suspense
Pages: 400
Reading material:
Longer English sample + synopsis, Finnish edition
✓ FINLAND'S NO. 1 BESTSELLER! Total sales 40,000 copies!
✓ Solar Films will adapt Milo to an international TV series for global distribution, with development starting in 2024 and a planned release in 2026!
✓ Rights to Milo have been sold to Bastei Lübbe in Germany, Aschehoug in Norway, Mera Éditions in France, Latvijas Medijii in Latvia, Piemme/Mondadori in Italy, Pegasus in Estonia!
✓ Max Seeck won the prestigious Glass Key Award 2023 for The Last Grudge!
✓ Max Seeck’s books have sold over 400,000 copies in Finland! Big Hollywood news coming!
Milo, a criminal profiler and art gallery owner struggling with sexual frustration needs to understand the game of chess better in order to catch a killer.
Milo, a 38-year-old art enthusiast, gallery owner and criminal profiler struggles with sexual frustration that are both the cause and consequence for his marital problems with his wife Ronja. A body of a young woman is found painted in all-white representing a piece of chess. The chief inspector receives an anonymous letter with a short message: Bxc6. This indicates a chess move and along the location where the body was found the investigators feel that more chess moves might be on the way.
Milo struggles to form a clear picture of the killer. He soon understands that in order to help the police force to catch the killer he needs to understand the game of chess better. As much as he hates it, he decides to face the ghost of the past: her mother’s former partner Stanislav who happens to be a European champion in chess…
MILO is a psychological suspense novel with surprising twists and interesting facts about the game of chess. It’s also a story of complex human relationships, sex and issues people are facing when they approach the middle-age. The novel also covers a lot of art and other cultural references, maintaining the erotic vibe that stems from Milo’s and Ronja’s sexual adventures.
Milo is a slightly different Seeck detective story and as such a quality piece of work. More than that, it's an outright masterpiece (…) Each new step has been an artistic success. Max Seeck, last year's winner of the Glass Key Award for best Nordic detective story, has a golden touch for Finnish suspense fiction.
- Kai Hirvasnoro, Kansan Uutiset newspaper
Rights sold:
FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
ESTONIA: Pegasus
FILM & TV: Solar Films
FRANCE: Mera Editions
GERMANY: Bastei Luebbe
ITALY: Piemme
LATVIA: Latvijas Mediji
NORWAY: Aschehoug