MONS KALLENTOFT
MONS KALLENTOFT is a journalist and an author. His breakthrough novel MIDWINTER SACRIFICE (UK and Australia) MIDWINTER BLOOD (US and Canada), first published in Sweden in 2007, is the first book in the MALIN FORS-series. It was praised unanimously by Swedish critics and climbed to the top of bestseller lists. Today it has sold over 300,000 copies in Sweden alone, and has been translated into thirty languages.
Since his literary debut with PESETAS (2000), Mons Kallentoft has continued to achieve great success with the ZACK HERRY-series, and most recently with his two books about the private detective Tim Blanck in the PALMA NOIR-series. Today he is, by far, one of Sweden's most beloved authors.
The second part of Mons Kallentoft's new UNDERDOGS-series titled LOVE YOU LONG TIME was published this autumn.
"Kallentoft is one of the best in the country and this is no exception. While solving an old case, the book manages to address philosophical questions about the freedom of art while being nail-bitingly exciting with an impressive insight into the human psyche. A driven language that does not conceal the horrors here at home or out in the world. Engaging from the first page to the last. "
- Björn Stenberg, Uppsala Nya Tidning newspaper
Photo: Pär Olsson
"Kallentoft penetrates deep into the dark heart of a hollowed-out society. The night-black depiction of vulnerability and exploitation hits the reader like a fist, powerful and merciless."
- Helsingborgs Dagblad
Agent: Erik Larsson
WORKS
LOVE YOU LONG TIME
PUBLISHED OCTOBER 2023, BOKFÖRLAGET FORUM
GENRE CRIME
PAges 350
RIGHTS SOLD
ICELAND – Ugla útgáfa 1–3
CZECH REPUBLIC – Host books
The second part of UNDERDOGS - a dark and tantalizing thriller series.
Skärholmen, Stockholm. A young man has been found murdered in an apartment – surrounded by hundreds of lights and with a crucifix on the wall. Everything suggests a ritualistic murder, and Detective Leo Madvig is getting nowhere with the case. Exhausted, he goes on vacation to Tokyo, where he stumbles upon a homicide detective who has had a similar case. Is it an international serial killer?
Leo involves his friend Lulu and the muscle-bound data genius Vic in the investigation. But Vic is getting worse, and Lulu doesn't want to leave his side. The number of victims is at risk of becoming much higher before the group reaches a solution.
LOVE YOU LONG TIME is a feverish suspense novel about a contemporary world where God seems to have abandoned humanity, and the only thing that remains is hope for love.
ALGORITHM OF LOVE
PUBLISHED OCTOBER 2022, BOKFÖRLAGET FORUM
GENRE CRIME
PAges 300
RIGHTS SOLD
ICELAND – Ugla útgáfa 1–3
CZECH REPUBLIC – Host books
The first part of the new UNDERDOGS series – a dark and exciting thriller series about the present day, the gluttony of the rich and the lives of the marginalized people.
Post-pandemic Stockholm. In the kitchen of Brasserie Astoria, Elle Videman has to work non-stop in the washroom for her survival. Inside a prison cell at Österåker's security department, her father is serving time for a murder he did not commit. Or, did he?
Searching for truth, Elle meets detective Leo Madvig who was in charge of the case against her father, boundless but fiercely loyal trans woman Lulu, and paralyzed-from-waist-down computer genius Vic. In contemporary Stockholm, with its gold-edged façade where decadence thrives, there is more darkness than meets the eye. Here we meet some of those who are on the fringes of society.
ALGORITHM OF LOVE is a feverish and urban thriller about a polarized contemporary society, where the only common denominator is love.
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