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 third part of Mons Kallentoft's new UNDERDOGS-series titled LITTLE DARLING YOU 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 

"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

PUBLISHED OCTOBER 2024, BOKFÖRLAGET FORUM
GENRE CRIME
PAges 290

RIGHTS SOLD
ICELAND – Ugla útgáfa 1–3

The third instalment in the dark and chilling thriller series UNDERDOGS.

A diplomat is assaulted on the island of Lidingö, and another is brutally beaten on Södermalm in Stockholm. Detective Inspector Leo Madvig quickly recognises a pattern and predicts an escalating spiral of violence about to begin. To prevent another murder, he must find the perpetrator. Meanwhile, Vic prepares to die as a result of his sickness, and sees the maths genius Elissar as his successor. She has one wish in life: to find out who her father is, the man who raped her mother, and then to kill him. At her side is Lulu, and their quest leads them into the darkest corners of contemporary Europe.

In Paris, Leo's girlfriend Nadia is pregnant with their first child, but the difficult case is keeping Leo up at night. And soon the investigation is dangerously close to his own life.

What is allowed in the name 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.