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Jana Kippo

by Karin Smirnoff

The Jana Kippo series by Karin Smirnoff has 1 known book (1 published). It is best read in publication order, starting with My Brother (2021). My Brother is the latest book with a fully recorded publication date. Karin Smirnoff wrote the series; book 1 were translated by Anna Paterson.

Books
1 known book (1 novel)
Published
1
First published
2021
Status
hiatus
Start here: My Brother (2021) — then read straight through in publication order.
Book one
Cover of My Brother
My Brother (2021)

Reading order

The date order of published books and any announced future entries — the default way to read the series.

  1. My Brother

    Novel
    My Brother, translated into English by Anna Paterson and published in 2021 at 320 pages, opens Karin Smirnoff's Jana Kippo trilogy -- her work before being chosen to continue Stieg Larsson's Millennium series -- following Jana's return to the fictional far-northern village of Smalanger to sort out her alcoholic twin brother Bjorne's collapsing life. It remains the only entry of the trilogy translated into English as of 2026.
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Key facts about the Jana Kippo series

Our list has 1 book in the Jana Kippo series. Since that book is out now, you can read it today. Start with My Brother, since it opens the publication order in 2021.

The list keeps the books in date order, while each title links to its own page. Each book page shows its dates and editions.

My Brother is the latest book with a full release date, out on 4 May 2021. The catalogue marks the series as on hiatus, so no next book has a date yet.

Karin Smirnoff has 3 books on our list. This is the only series by them we track, while the author page lists the rest. We shelve the books under literary crime.

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

Who writes the Jana Kippo series?

Karin Smirnoff wrote the series; book 1 were translated by Anna Paterson.

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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