Eva Fretheim’s "The Crow’s Throne" a NORLA Selected Title for Spring 2026!

Every six months, NORLA selects Norwegian books of current interest for book fairs and literary events. The Crow’s Throne by Eva Fretheim has made the cut for this spring!

The Crow’s Throne is the fourth book in the Vigdis Malmstrøm series, which has been sold to 8 markets and counting and received multiple awards. Read more about the first three books:

Queenland (2022)
The Bird King (2024)
The Paper Dolls (2025)

Read more about The Crow’s Throne, which comes out in Norwegian on March 16th:

A couple of eggs are smashed against a windowpane.

A teenage girl walks out onto a frozen pond.

The night the young woman falls through the ice changes everything; the pond where she drowns is on the mayor’s property. And police investigator Vigdis Malmstrøm gradually discovers that this is not the first time a young person has lost their life in exactly this way — right here.

Which stories do we cling to in order to survive? And how far back do we have to go to unravel all the lies that make up a life?

In The Crow’s Throne, the political power struggle is every bit as transgressive as the all-consuming games of childhood. And with her masterful psychological insight, Eva Fretheim once again shows why she has taken Norwegian crime readers by storm.