Warner Bros. Options Jo Nesbø's Blood on the Snow for Film

We recently reported on Norwegian crime novelist Jo Nesbø assuming the pen name Tom Johansen for his next book, to be published in Fall 2014.

We're now learning (via Deadline) that Blood on the Snow has been preemptively optioned for film by Warner Bros. The storyline is centered on a man hired by his boss to kill his wife only to fall for her instead. (We're hoping there's more to it than that!)

A second book under contract (working title More Blood on the Snow), to be published in 2015, is apparently not part of this deal.