Sales sheet - Hedlund Literary Agency

200 000 copies of Ninni Schulman’s books
sold in Sweden!
Ninni Schulman
The Boy who Stopped
Crying
Published by Forum 2012
In the little town of Hagfors it’s a hot August. Violent
thunder storms puncture the sunny moments.
At the local newspaper where Magdalena Hansson
works, there is a news drought. Magdalena has plenty of
time to miss her son Nils who is spending a few weeks
with his father. Her boyfriend Petter is off somewhere
with his children.
Suddenly one night the small-town quiet is shattered
by the sirens of fire engines. Magdalena and the newspaper photographer are quickly on the scene, but it’s soon
clear that the firemen don’t have a chance. The house,
a sea of fire, burns to the ground and a badly injured
woman dies soon after. Initially, they guess that the house
has been struck by lightning, but the forensic examination
indicates beyond any doubt that the fire was deliberately
started.
Before the recently love-struck police Christer Berglund and his team have got particularly far in their investigation, it becomes clear that a serial arsonist is at work.
Another house burns to the ground and an elderly couple
dies in the flames. Again there seems to be no witnesses,
no one has neither seen nor heard anything.
But eventually a pattern emerges: just before a fire is
started, those affected by it receive a post card with the
same mysterious phrase. What or who connects the victims and how should the message be interpreted? When
Magdalena herself receives one of these post cards, there’s
no doubt that it’s a death threat and she must act quickly.
SWEDISH TITLE: RIGHTS SOLD:
Pojken som slutade gråta
Danish/People’s Press
French/Editions du Seuil
German/Heyne
Italian/Sperling&Kupfer
Norwegian/Cappelen Damm
CATEGORY: Fiction/Mystery Suspense
PUBLICATION: January 2012
FOTO: LENA AHLSTRÖM
Ninni Schulman’s tender handling of her characters bring
them close to the reader, who recognises and partakes
of their everyday lives, their lesser and greater joys and
tragedies.
Ninni Schulman (born 1972) grew up in an iron
foundry district in Värmland, where her crime stories
also take place. She has worked as a journalist at
daily newspapers and magazines. Today she lives in
Stockholm but she spends as much time as possible
in Värmland.
Her first two books about the journalist Magdalena
Hansson, Flickan med snö i håret (The Girl with Snow
in Her Hair) and Pojken som slutade gråta (The Boy
Who Stopped Crying) have sold close to 200 000
copies in Sweden with foreign rights sold in eight
countries. The third book in the series, Svara om du
hör mig (Answer If You Hear Me), will be published in
September 2013.
Susanne Widén
[email protected]
Mobile: +46 76-644 06 48
Box 2262 · 103 16 Stockholm · sweden
Visiting address: Tyska Brinken 19
www.hedlundagency.se
“In her impressively believable way,
Ninni Schulman describes how the
lives of all those involved
fall to pieces ...”
Dagens Nyheter
“Things that seem idyllic on the
surface are hiding terrible things beneath – she is very skilled at this.” Magnus Utvik i Gormorron Sverige, SVT
“A well written blend of day-to-day
realism, excitement and believable
personal portraits.” Aftonbladet
“This is exciting stuff, and Schulman is very good at writing about
characters I care about.” Östgöta Correspondenten
“The author has done it again, I
could not put this down until I had
read the last page … a distinguished
page-turner.”
Sladdertackans bokblogg
“The suspense is really kept up
until the last few pages…” Mysterierna
“I liked Ninni Schulman’s novel
debut Flickan med snö i håret and
the stand-alone second book Pojken
som slutade gråta was even better.”
Deckarhuset
“Ninni Schulman has a fantastic
ability when it comes to character descriptions that really hit the
mark.” Bokbrus
Susanne Widén
[email protected]
Mobile: +46 76-644 06 48
Box 2262 · 103 16 Stockholm · sweden
Visiting address: Tyska Brinken 19
www.hedlundagency.se