Louise Boije af Gennäs has signed a three-book-deal with Bazar Publishing for a new suspense series. The first book in the Stella Polaris series will be published fall 2022.
”Karin Linge Nordh is one of Sweden’s top crime editors and I have wanted to work with her for a long time. During some years I have had in my mind a strong, smart and penniless upper class woman, a woman who goes against conventions and opens a private investigation firm. Now the stars are aligned and this character will finally come to life, I am so thrilled,” says Louise Boije af Gennäs.
”I have such a huge admiration for Louise, both as an author as well as a playwright,” says Karin Linge Nord, Publishing Director Bazar. “I love her ability to portray believable and engaging characters and I look forward to launching a brand new series showing her range as an author. In the Resistance Trilogy Louise manifested her talent for writing high quality suspense, and now she follows up with a crime series with a complex and unique heroine that all readers will want to follow for a long time.”
Louise Boije af Gennäs is one of Sweden’s most beloved authors. She debuted with Taking What You Want in 1991 and became a household name with the massive success of Stars Without Vertigo in 1996. Her latest trilogy, The Resistance Trilogy, has sold to more than 10 countries worldwide with a television series based on the novels in development.
In the new Stella Polaris series, we will follow a female private investigator with roots in Sweden’s upper class, but with a strong will to prove to herself and the world around her that she can create her own independence and success.
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