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Orenda Books has signed "bestselling" Norwegian crime writer Thomas Enger in a two-book deal. Coat of Arms and Mortal Wound will be the last two books in the Henning Juul series, about a veteran investigative crime reporter in Oslo, Norway. Karen Sullivan, publisher of Orenda Books, acquired world English language rights to the next two titles in Enger’s Henning Juul series, in a deal negotiated with Anne Cathrine Eng of Gyldendal Agency, at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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