Orenda Books

29/10/2025

'It is a typically Scandi tale of beautiful interiors and ugly emotions that twists and turns like a snared mink. Above all, it is another exploration of the myriad forms of grief.'

SO THRILLED with this fantastic review from The Times of Johana Gustawsson's electrifying masterpiece, Scars of Silence, translated by David Warriner. Thank you Mark Sanderson!!

This winter, visit the Swedish island of Lidingö, where former French commissioner Maïa Rehn and local detective Aleksander Storm investigate the ritualistic murders of two teenagers, their bodies left like offerings in the forest.

Scars of Silence is out 20th November, with sprayed edges EXCLUSIVE ONLY to bookshops, including Goldsboro Books!

🕯️ https://bit.ly/4lxacgo

28/10/2025

Readers of Scotland! Come along to Aye Write Glasgow's Book Festival – Glasgow's BIGGEST Book Festival – this November where Finland's greatest export and the 'Funniest writer in Europe' (The Times) Antti Tuomainen, will join the inimitable, award-winning Icelandic author Lilja Sigurðardóttir - Author Page (author of Black as Death) and moderator Neil McKay.

Antti will be chatting about his darkly funny, touching and brilliantly Fargo-esque new thriller, The Winter Job, translated by David Hackston.

BE WARNED: You WILL leave the event with sore ribs from laughing so much!
We'll see you there!

BOOK YOUR TICKETS NOW! https://bit.ly/3KCm7wu

28/10/2025

'The story of Simo Häyhä and the childhood friends who accompanied him to the war, as well as the Finnish military leaders who led the country's army in this war, is told in the gripping novel, The Winter Warriors. A book that, under its layer of apparent fiction, hides a much harsher reality.

As its author, the former French policeman Olivier Norek, warns in a note at the beginning of the book: "No armed act has been invented, nor has any anecdote. No heroic act has been exaggerated." The result is a terribly enjoyable read, through which the reader glides, sometimes with the speed of an adventure novel, sometimes with the passion of a history book.'

Translated from original page.

Olivier Norek Officiel's incredible historical Thriller, The Winter Warrior, translated by Nick Caistor, is out NOW in English!

Olivier Norek narra en Los guerreros del invierno, con rigor histórico y gran pulso narrativo, las hazañas de Simo Häyhä, el francotirador finlandés que protagonizó la Guerra de Invierno en 1939.

28/10/2025

We'll be attending Aye Write Glasgow's Book Festival this year with some of our INCREDIBLE authors - Doug Johnstone Antti Tuomainen Author & Lilja Sigurðardóttir - Author Page! Will we see you there?

Purchase your tickets today: https://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/whats-on/aye-write?eventtype=All

You can view all of our events by day with our festival programme 📅 📖

Printed copies will be available in libraries across the city, venues like Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Waterstones stores and MORE. Keep an eye out from this weekend and pick up a copy to explore what's on!

There's a version to download on the homepage 👇
https://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/whats-on/aye-write

27/10/2025

Welcome to Riverstone! 🇳🇿

This November, get cosy and armchair travel to the fictional New Zealand town of Riverstone, population 3,387... For now!

R.W.R McDonald discusses the inspiration behind the small town setting of his upcoming heartwarming, hilarious mystery, The Nancys and the Case of the Missing Necklace, out 20th November.

📖 https://bit.ly/4mHDbiE

Whether you're on the look out for a Christmas gift (yes, we said it!) for that favourite bookworm in your life, or you're in the market for a heartwarming and gripping mystery with characters who you won't be able to fall in love with, THIS is the book for you!

27/10/2025

STARS of Nordic Noir (one with a hilarious twist) Antti Tuomainen Author and Lilja Sigurðardóttir - Author Page will be in on 9th November – appearing at Aye Write Glasgow's Book Festival to chat about their brand-new thrillers – Black as Death, t Lorenza Garcia and The Winter Job, t David Hackston. 12.45 in the Royal Concert Hall! Neil Mckay will be chairing.

Book your tickets here!
https://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/the-winter-job-and-black-as-death-antti-tuomainen-and-lilja-sigurdardottir-with-neil-mckay

We've got plenty of time to chat after the event, so hang around for some fun!

In fact, make a day of it!

At 18.00, at the Royal Concert Hall, you can see our inimitable Doug Johnstone along with Adam Oyebanji, chatting to Ann Landmann about the EPIC third instalment in his Encedalons Trilogy – The Transcendent Tide. Unmissable!

Grab your tickets here: https://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/esperance-and-the-transcendent-tide-adam-oyebanji-and-doug-johnstone-with-ann-landmann

We'll see you there!

So that's sorted! Stay tuned for more!

25/10/2025

The STUNNING 10th Anniversary edition of Ragnar Jónasson’s genre re-defying Nordic Noir thriller, Snowblind, is OUT NOW & includes the FIRST Dark Iceland mystery in FIVE years – Fadeout – along with an introduction by Anthony Horowitz.

The BEAUTIFUL anniversary edition is foiled, embossed and there are stunning sprayed edges that are ONLY available from bookshops, including Waterstones, Goldsboro Books and Bert's Books!

A must-buy for book collectors!

TWO extraordinary slices of Nordic noir in one book, what are you waiting for?! Grab yours today: https://bit.ly/4kvDgER

❄️ Snowblind translated by Quentin Bates
😱 Fadeout translated by Larissa Kyzer

25/10/2025

'Warm and witty.'

THRILLED to see that R.W.R McDonald's award-winning The Nancys and the Case of the Missing Necklace has been selected as one of Crime Monthly's November Crime Crackers! THANK YOU Lisa Howells!

Gripping, glorious and glittering with suspense, The Nancy's is also a heartwarming, hilarious novel for anyone who's ever felt like they were on the outside, looking in, with a simmering mystery at its heart and characters you will never forget.

Nancy Drew has NOTHING on this trio. Meet the Nancys this November!
📚 https://bit.ly/4mHDbiE

24/10/2025

The Descent, the prescient, deeply shocking prequel to Paul Hardisty's bestselling, critically acclaimed Climate Emergency thriller, The Forcing is only 99p for a LIMITED time only!

A young man and his young family set out on a perilous voyage across a devastated planet to uncover the origin of the events that set the world on its course to disaster …

A story of survival, hope, and the power of the human spirit in a world torn apart by climate change.

Kobo - https://bit.ly/40gEtas
Apple - https://bit.ly/3JeMNDe

24/10/2025

Will Carver's daring, darkly funny and disturbingly plausible new thriller, Kill Them With Kindness, is ONLY 99p on kindle for a limited time only!

What if kindness was contagious, and deadly?😱💊

A Japanese scientist hijacks a government-engineered virus, turning it into something radically humane. As the UK prepares for mass state-assisted su***de, the truth about this mutated strain becomes clear.

📱 https://bit.ly/47ERPlJ