The Silk Road North series by Anu Ojala has now sold over 60.000 copies in Finland alone.
Exciting news from our crime list: the Silk Road North series by Anu Ojala has sold over 60.000 copies in Finland, consolidating its position as a readers’ favourite and a top-tier series in its genre.
The series follows twin city Tornio-Haparanda, on the Swedish-Finnish border in Lapland, has been plagued by a crime wave which keeps claiming new victims. Sergeant Ronja Jentzch investigates murders that lead to the trail of a dangerous synthetic drug. As police feverishly work on the case, a more complex web of connections is revealed, and international meddling becomes a part of the picture.
The series consists of Silk Road North (2021), Death Knell (2023) , and The Skynet (2024).
Among the strengths of the series are the credible portrayal of investigative procedures as well as characters that are written with depth and compassion. In Ojala’s books, crimes are often created by desperate circumstances and committed by people just like us, who are simply looking for a way to a better life. At the same time, the tension remains until the last pages of each book, and the fact that the investigation expands and deepens with each part of the trilogy gives the books a quality of a high-calibre, bingeable TV series. The rights to the series have been pre-empted in Germany by Droemer Knaur.
Anu Ojala (b.1972) is an author and lawyer living in Rovaniemi in the Finnish Lapland who knows the background of the Arctic drug war well. She has worked in a law firm and at the University of Lapland, and has previously written novels for young readers. The Silk Road North series is published in Finland by Gummerus.
Warm congratulations to the author and the publisher on this wonderful success, and don’t miss out on this title!