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MacLehose Press signs 'knock-out finale' to Larsson's Martinsson series
MacLehose Press has signed The Sins of Our Fathers, the final instalment in the Rebecka Martinsson series from Åsa Larsson, translated by Frank Perry.
Katharina Bielenberg, publisher, acquired world English rights from Johanna Kinch at Bonnier Rights Agency Sweden. The crime novel will be published in hardback and e-book on 30th March 2023.
"The Sins of Our Fathers wraps up a milestone crime series, nearly two decades in the making," said Astri von Arbin Ahlander at the Ahlander Agency. "With the books about Rebecka Martinsson, Åsa Larsson has not only written beloved novels, she has fundamentally changed the expectations of what suspense literature can be. I am so incredibly honoured and humbled to have had the opportunity to witness a piece of literary history being made.”
The Rebecka Martinsson series began with The Savage Altar, published by Penguin in 2011, which won Sweden’s Best First Crime Novel award. The Sins of our Fathers was voted the Best Swedish Crime Novel of the Year 2021, winner of the Storytel Award for Best Suspense Novel 2021 and the Adlibris Award for Best Suspense Novel 2021. It is currently shortlisted for the Best Nordic Crime Novel.
Bielenberg commented: "Her many readers worldwide have waited long for Åsa Larsson’s next instalment, and without doubt it is her best yet. Gripping and vivid, with layer upon layer of human interest – I was thrilled and profoundly moved by The Sins of Our Fathers, a knock-out finale to a ground-breaking series.”
Larsson added: "Saying farewell to Rebecka Martinsson contains a multitude of emotions. I am of course incredibly grateful. My fate – if she had not stepped in – would have been to make a living as a tax lawyer. Thanks to her, I was able to provide for myself and my children through my writing. I have friends that I would have never even met if it wasn’t for her. She has given me a life and a context that I, growing up in the mining town of Kiruna 200 kilometres north of the Arctic circle, never could have dreamed about.”
