Danish king of crime is selling in the US

By Carsten Andersen / Politiken

08-09-2011

 

Success in the US. Jussi Adler-Olsen´s THE KEEPER OF LOST CAUSES is heading towards the top of the US bestseller-lists.

People can´t seem to get enough of Jussi Adler-Olsen, whose most resent book is now no. 30 in the US. The gigantic success in Denmark and Germany for Jussi Adler-Olsen is now spreading to the author´s most recent publication in the States. THE KEEPER OF LOST CAUSES is selling so well that it´s about to hit no. 30 on the New York Times bestseller list for fiction novels.

On the independent bookstore bestseller-list the novel is ranked no. 9. Ever since the book was published, on August 23rd, the novel has moved towards the top of the sales-list at the American online bookstore Amazon.

Yesterday the first volume in the series about Department Q  hit the online bookstore list.
The Penguin-owned publisher, Dutton, which publishes Adler-Olsen, has now begun printing the third edition of the novel.

 

In Germany Jussi Adler-Olsen is now both no.2 and 3 on the sales list of Der Spiegel. The first edition of his latest publication in German MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE was printed in 300.000 copies.