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Max Seeck’s MILO is on fire, with another deal – this time rights were acquired in Italy at auction, conducted and closed by Elina Ahlback and Julia Bogen. The Italian rights to Max Seeck’s brand new series MILO has gone to his previous publisher Piemme/Mondadori Group. Solar Films adapts Milo to an international TV show for global distribution. Rights were previously sold to Bastei Lübbe in Germany, Aschehoug in Norway, Mera Éditions in France and Latvijas Medijii in Latvia. Huge congratulations, Max!
Max Seeck is a New York Times and Spiegel Bestselling Author, and MILO is currently Finland’s #1 Bestseller!! MILO has sold over 25,000 copies since publication in September! MILO begins a new crime series, with a complex and relatable main character, criminal profiler and art gallerist Milo Perho. Bodies with chess pieces in their mouth – Milo needs to understand the game of chess in order to catch a killer.
Praise for MILO:
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
About MILO:
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…
Rights still available in the UK, Spain, Poland, Czechia, Iceland, Japan, China…
Click here to download all reading materials for MILO!
MILO
Merkitty – Tammi 2024 – 400 p.
Rights Sold:
FINLAND: Tammi (orig.), FRANCE: Mera Editions, GERMANY: Bastei Luebbe, ITALY: Piemme/Mondadori Group, LATVIA: Latvijas Mediji, NORWAY: Aschehoug, FILM & TV: Solar Films
Reading Materials:
50 p. English sample + synopsis, Finnish edition
