Elina Backman’s ALL THE KING’S MEN and two sequels now pre-empted in Denmark

We are really happy to announce that all 3 titles in Elina Backman’s Saana Havas Nordic Crime series have now been pre-empted in Denmark by Gyldendal!
The deal was closed by Toomas Aasmäe at Elina Ahlback Literary Agency

Saana Havas series has sold over 50 000 copies in Finland so far!
The series now has publishers in 16 territories and an international TV series is in development.
Rights are still available in the US, UK, Turkey, Latvia, France, Bulgaria, Spain, Portugal, Iceland etc.

Download the English samples and synopses for the series here!

DANISH PRAISE:

I am very excited to welcome Elina Backman to Gyldendal.The series kept me up all night and I can’t wait to introduce it to the Danish readers. Jan and Saana are excellent company, and Backman is very skilled in adding small details that make the story connect with real life in a very truthful manner. A highly entertaining crime series written by an author with a great eye for both plot, characters and sense of place.
-Sofie Voller, Associate Publisher, Gyldendal, Denmark

Saana has been fired from her job as a click-bait journalist, so she decides to spend a summer with her aunt in a small-town Hartola. It sounds like a perfect opportunity to take it easy and recover. But when Saana begins to dig into a case of a teenage girl who died 30 years earlier, the peace of the small town is shaken.

Meanwhile in Helsinki a fire-marked body is found at Suomenlinna Sea Fortress, and crime investigator Jan Leino and his team have a new case in their hands. However, the investigation isn’t going anywhere, and Jan fears that the murder at King’s Gate a is just the beginning…

Saana and Jan continue working on their own cases until their paths cross – for more than one reason.
STILL WATERS RUN DEEP
Book #2 in Saana Havas-series

by Elina Backman

Is evil lurking beneath the calm waters? Still Waters Run Deep is an awaited sequel to the bestselling All The Kings Men!

Three young men are making a documentary film about a mystical hermit, living in the Isle of Sheep in Helsinki. First one of them disappears, then another one. When one of them is found dead in the nearby nature reserve, the police becmes involved.

Saana Havas, recovering from burnout, hears that her  colleague’s younger brother has gone missing and decides to set up a true crime podcast to help with the search. Meanwhile, police commissioner Jan Leino and his team are investigating the disappearance and possible murder of the documentary makers.

When young men disappear and die, it’s ofter regarded just an accident. But could it be that someone is actually hunting for them?

BEFORE THE POLAR NIGHT FALLS
Book #3 in Saana Havas-series

by Elina Backman

The past and the present intertwine in this arresting novel with unforgettable characters!

A woman working for a law firm approaches Saana Havas to help with the mystery of her sister’s death. Her sister was found dead in a swamp near the Angeli village in Northern Lapland in 1998, and the murderer has never been caught. The police have given up on the case, no witnesses were ever found in the area of Lapland that covers hundreds of kilometers. Saana promises to help her, and receives all the material the client has collected. Part of this is a manuscript the woman wrote when investigating the case herself years ago. Saana travels to the North and investigates as the winter and polar night keeps creeping closer. As Saana investigates the old case, she also finds time to ponder on her own roots. An old photograph shows her parents in love at the top of the Saana fell. By the time Saana was born, they all lived in Helsinki, and as the years passed her father returned to the North and her mother stayed in the South. Her mother, who has since passed away, never spoke about her father’s family or roots. Saana interviews the locals and soon finds out unexpected secrets.

Things take a threatening turn when another girl is found dead in Inari. What happened in the North all those years ago? Has the murderer come back after all these year? Who is trustworthy? Who has been carrying secrets inside themselves all these years?  Set in both Helsinki and Lapland, this book is both a fascinating thriller and a detective novel about love, secrets, the magic of Lapland and nature, which acts as a silent witness.