Jussi Adler-Olsen’s The Boundless, the sixth volume in the Danish author’s Department Q crime thriller series, held on to its top spot on Germany’s fiction list last month. Martin Walker’s The Children Return debuted on the list at #2. The book was released in the U.S. by Knopf in April (and published under the title Children of War in the U.K.).

The top two titles on Germany’s nonfiction list were both new to the chart. At #1 was Autumn Blond, the autobiography of Thomas Gottschalk, one of Germany’s most famous radio and television hosts. Inside ISIS, by Jürgen Todenhöfer, came in at #2. Todenhöfer, who the publisher said was the first Western journalist allowed into areas controlled by ISIS, reports on the everyday lives and motives of the ISIS fighters.

Like in Germany, the top-selling novel in France also led the chart the previous month: Guillaume Musso’s The Present Moment was once again at #1. Checkpoint, by Jean-Christophe Rufin, at #2, is new to the list. In the psychological thriller, Rufin follows 21-year-old humanitarian volunteer worker Maud, who is working on a convoy in Bosnia. Intrigue follows as her companions slowly reveal their “secret wounds,” and she finds out what they actually transport.

All three titles on France’s nonfiction chart are new releases, including #3, If We Love France, by the late economist and journalist Bernard Maris, who was killed during the attack on French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. In this work, finished a few days before his death, Maris “draws a portrait of the France that he loves and regrets the pessimistic views on the nation’s current state.”

Sweden’s top title in April was also the bestselling novel at the end of March, Camilla Lackberg’s The Lion Tamer.

International Bestsellers

Germany

Fiction Nonfiction
1 Verheißung
The Boundless
Jussi Adler-Olsen
DTV
Le crépuscule d’une idole
Herbstblond
Autumn Blond
Thomas Gottschalk
Heyne
2 Provokateure
The Children Return:
A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel
Martin Walker
Diogenes
Inside IS.
10 Tage im ´Islamischen Staat´
Inside ISIS:
10 Days in the Islamic State
Jürgen Todenhöfer
C. Bertelsmann
3 Altes Land
Old Country
Dörte Hansen
Knaus
Was ich noch sagen wollte
A Few More Things on My Mind
Helmut Schmidt
C.H. Beck

For the week ended May 9; used by arrangement with Buchreport.

France

Fiction Nonfiction
1 L’instant present
The Present Moment
Guillaume Musso
XO
Prenez votre santé en main!
Take Charge of Your Health!
Frédéric Saldmann
Albin Michel
2 Checkpoint
Checkpoint
Jean-Christophe Rufin
Gallimard
Icônne
Icônne
Natoo
Ed. Privé
3 Temps glaciaires
Ice Age
Fred Vargas
Flammarion
Et si on aimait la France
If We Love France
Bernard Maris
Grasset

For week ended May 3; used by arrangement with CPNB De Bestseller.

Sweden

Fiction Nonfiction
1 Lejontämjaren
The Lion Tamer
Camilla Läckberg
Bokförlaget Forum
SÃLJ! konsten att sälja vad
som helst till vem som helst
The Sale: The Secrets of
Selling Anything to Anyone
Fredrik Eklund & Bruce Littlefield
Ekerlids Förlag
2 Stalker
Stalker
Lars Kepler
Albert Bonniers Förlag
Lär dig leva
Learn to Live
Mats & Susan Billmark
Livskraft
3 Mios blues
Mio’s Blues
Kristina Ohlsson
Piratförlaget
Det är bara lite cancer
It’s Just Little Cancer
Klas Ingesson & Henrik Ystén Ekblom
Offside Press

For April 2015; used by arrangement with Svensk Bokhandel.