Jo Nesbø To Write New Series Using Pen Name Tom Johansen

Norwegian crime novelist Jo Nesbø is writing a new series of books using the pen name Tom Johansen, British publisher Harvill Secker has announced.

"We are very pleased to partner with Jo on this exciting new project," said the publisher in a statement, "and we look forward to revealing more about Tom Johansen's mysterious world in the near future."

The first of the "Blood on the Snow" novels by Johansen is expected to be on bookshelves in Fall 2014.

Nesbø is probably best known for his "Harry Hole" police procedurals, the most recent of which, Police, was published this month in the US by Knopf.