Monica Kristensen Norway

Monica Kristensen is one of Norways finest scientists of the Polar regions and has led spectacular expeditions under Arctic and Antarctic skies. She has taken part in several research investigations at Svalbard and from 1998 – 2003 she worked as the director of Kings Bay in Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard. After completing a doctorate in glaciology at Cambridge University she has received a number of prestigious awards, amongst others the Royal Geographical Society’s gold medal. Hollendergraven (The Dutchman’s Grave) was her debut novel and has now been succeeded by the second book Kullunge (Coal Baby) in the series. The series will consist of 12 volumes. - To be filmed fo a television series.

New novel

Den døde i Barentsburg (vol. 4)
(The Dead Man in Barentsburg) Press, Oslo August 2011
Barentsburg is a mystery to Knut Fjeld. He doesn’t understand why he is here in this strange, Russian mining town on Svalbard, a remnant of the Cold War. He doesn’t understand why the Russians suddenly want a local Norwegian police commissioner to investigate a completely normal accident. He doesn’t understand the people, the abandoned Soviet-buildings under the Northern Lights, the strange language. And he doesn’t know whether he is in fact meant to understand. Or whether the ominous details he begins to uncover are just parts of a bigger puzzle which someone out there in the shadows has made for him.
The Dead Man in Barentsburg is an icy and atmospheric depiction of an impenetrable community – and of a man who must find the truth alone. This is the fourth instalment in Monica Kristensen’s critically acclaimed crime series set in Svalbard, following The Dutchman’s Grave (2007), Coal Baby (2008) and Operation Fritham (2009).

Rights sold: Germany: btb Random House
Denmark: Sohn

Operasion Fritham (vol. 3)
(Operation Fritham) Press, Oslo, June 2009

May 1942. Two small allied ships are on heading north on a dangerous mission: They are to conquer Svalbard back from the Germans. But there is a man with a dark past onboard. He carries a valuable object that he will not part with at any cost. - Almost sixty years later Norwegian, British and German soldiers re-unite in Ny-Ålesund to heal old wounds. But instead, dark and bloody secrets from the military operations in Svalbard are revealed. Local police commissioner Knut Fjeld is forced into a desperate struggle to prevent a cynical murderer from the Second World War from killing again.

Rights sold:

German: btb/Random House
Danish: Sohn Forlag
France: Gaïa

Kullunge (vol. 2)
(Coal Baby) Press, Oslo, October 2008.

Rights sold: French: Gaïa Editions
Danish: Sohn Forlag
German: btb/Random House ANZ: Murdoch Books

Hollendergraven (vol. 1)
(The Dutchman’s Grave) Press, Oslo, 2007

Rights sold: Danish: Sohn Forlag ANZ: Murdoch Books