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Jana Kippo

by Karin Smirnoff

The Jana Kippo series by Karin Smirnoff has 1 book and is best read in publication order, starting with My Brother (2021).

Books
1 book
First published
2021
Status
hiatus
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Start here: My Brother (2021) — then read straight through in publication order.

Book one

My Brother (2021)

Reading order

The order the books were released — the default way to read the series.

  1. My Brother

    Novel

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About the Jana Kippo series

Before she was chosen to continue Stieg Larsson's Millennium series, Karin Smirnoff made her own name in Sweden with the Jana Kippo trilogy, a bestselling and critically acclaimed literary-crime saga set in the fictional far-northern village of Smalanger. Jana Kippo returns to her childhood home after decades away to sort out her alcoholic twin brother Bjorne's collapsing life, and finds herself pulled back into the family's buried violence and the village's own -- incest, abuse, and small-town complicity all surface as Jana confronts a past she left specifically to escape.

Smirnoff's prose is spare, dialect-inflected and often very dark, closer to rural Scandinavian literary fiction than to Millennium's tech-thriller conspiracies -- part of why her selection as Millennium's next author surprised the Swedish press. My Brother (Swedish 2018) won widespread acclaim and was shortlisted for Sweden's August Prize; the trilogy has sold more than 500,000 copies in Sweden and has been optioned for television.

Frequently asked questions

Is Jana Kippo connected to the Millennium series?

No. This is Karin Smirnoff's own original crime series, written under her own name before she was selected to continue Stieg Larsson's Millennium series. It shares no characters or setting with Millennium.

How many Jana Kippo books are there?

Three in Swedish -- My Brother (2018), Vi for upp med mor (2019) and Sen for jag hem (2020) -- but only the first, My Brother, has been published in English translation so far.

Will the rest of the Jana Kippo trilogy be translated into English?

No confirmed English edition of books two or three has been announced as of August 2026.

Who translated My Brother into English?

Anna Paterson, for UK publisher Pushkin Press (2021).

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