Arne Dahl
Arne Dahl is the pen name of Jan Arnald, an internationally known Swedish crime author and literary critic.
His writing can also be seen in the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter. He published Barbarer (2001) and Maria och Artur (2006) under his own name, but under his pseudonym he has written the A-gruppen (Intercrime) series, involving the A-team, a group highly trained in dealing with criminal cases in Sweden.
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Maj Sjöwall
Maj Sjöwall was a Swedish author and translator. She was best known for the collaborative work with her partner Per Wahlöö on a series of ten novels about the exploits of Martin Beck, a police detective in Stockholm. In 1971, the fourth of these books, The Laughing Policeman (a translation of Den skrattande polisen, originally published in 1968) won an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Novel. They also wrote novels separately.
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Andrea Camilleri
Andrea Camilleri was an Italian writer. He is considered one of the greatest Italian writers of both 20th and 21st centuries.
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Originally from Porto Empedocle, Sicily, Camilleri began studies at the Faculty of Literature in 1944, without concluding them, meanwhile publishing poems and short stories. Around this time he joined the Italian Communist Party.
From 1948 to 1950 Camilleri studied stage and film direction at the Silvio D'Amico Academy of Dramatic Arts, and began to take on work as a director and screenwriter, directing especially plays by Pirandello and Beckett. As a matter of fact, his parents knew Pirandello and were even distant friends, as he tells in his essay on Pirandello "Biography of the changed son". His most famous works, t -
Ian Rankin
AKA Jack Harvey.
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Born in the Kingdom of Fife in 1960, Ian Rankin graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1982 and then spent three years writing novels when he was supposed to be working towards a PhD in Scottish Literature. His first Rebus novel was published in 1987; the Rebus books are now translated into 22 languages and are bestsellers on several continents.
Ian Rankin has been elected a Hawthornden Fellow. He is also a past winner of the Chandler-Fulbright Award, and he received two Dagger Awards for the year's best short story and the Gold Dagger for Fiction. Ian Rankin is also the recipient of honorary degrees from the universities of Abertay, St Andrews, and Edinburgh.
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Håkan Nesser
Håkan Nesser is a Swedish author and teacher who has written a number of successful crime fiction novels. He has won Best Swedish Crime Novel Award three times, and his novel Carambole won the Glass Key award in 2000. His books have been translated from Swedish into numerous languages.
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Håkan Nesser was born and grew up in Kumla, and has lived most of his adult life in Uppsala. His first novel was published in 1988, but he worked as a teacher until 1998 when he became a full-time author. In August, 2006, Håkan Nesser and his wife Elke moved to Greenwich Village in New York.
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Deon Meyer
Deon Meyer was born in the South African town of Paarl in the winelands of the Western Cape in 1958, and grew up in Klerksdorp, in the gold mining region of Northwest Province.
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After military duty and studying at the Potchefstroom University, he joined Die Volksblad, a daily newspaper in Bloemfontein as a reporter. Since then, he has worked as press liaison, advertising copywriter, creative director, web manager, Internet strategist, and brand consultant.
Deon wrote his first book when he was 14 years old, and bribed and blackmailed his two brothers into reading it. They were not impressed (hey, everybody is a critic ...)
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Heeding their wisdom, he did not write fiction again until he was in his early thirties, when he started publishi -
Behcet Kaya
Behcet Kaya is the author of nine novels. His first literary fiction novel, Voice of Conscience, follows, to some extent, his own life experiences. His second novel, Murder on the Naval Base is a fast-paced who-done-it, his recently published third novel, Road to Siran, Erin’s Story is the eagerly awaited sequel to Voice of Conscience and the fourth Treacherous Estate is a crime thriller and the fifth Body in the Woods, Appellant Judge. Murder in Buckhead, Uncanny Alliance, Deception.
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Born in northeastern Turkey, Behcet grew up in a very small village with long held traditions. His rebellious nature emerged at an early age and by time he was ten, he had read, in secret, all the Turkish translated stories of Mike Hammer. In addition, he read -
Jørn Lier Horst
Jorn Lier Horst (born in Bamble, Telemark 1970) is a former Senior Investigating Officer at the Norwegian police force. He made his literary debut as a crime writer in 2004 and is considered one of the foremost Nordic crime writers.
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His series of mystery novels starring chief inspector William Wisting provides a detailed and authentic insight into how criminal cases are investigated and how it affects those involved, whether private or professional. The books represent a simple and accurate picture of the modern Nordic societies and is characterized by political and social commentary subtext. -
Anna Jansson
Anna Maria Angelika Jansson is a Swedish crime writer and nurse from Visby, Gotland.
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Jussi Adler-Olsen
Jussi Adler-Olsen is a Danish author who began to write novels in the 1990s after a comprehensive career as publisher, editor, film composer for the Valhalla cartoon and as a bookseller.
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He made his debut with the thriller “Alfabethuset” (1997), which reached bestseller status both in Denmark and internationally just like his subsequent novels “And She Thanked the Gods” (prev. “The Company Basher”) (2003) and “The Washington Decree” (2006). The first book on Department Q is “Kvinden I buret” (2007) and the second “Fasandræberne” (2008). The main detective is Deputy Superintendent Carl Morck from the Department Q and he is also the star of the third volume, “Flaskepost fra P” which was released in the fall of 2009 and secured Adler-Olsen ”Rea -
Lars Kepler
Lars Kepler is the pseudonym of critically acclaimed husband and wife team Alexander Ahndoril and Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril, authors of the No. 1 internationally bestselling Joona Linna series. With seven installments to date, the series has sold 13 million copies in 40 languages. The Ahndorils were both established writers before they adopted the pen name Lars Kepler, and have each published several acclaimed novels.
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Kristina Ohlsson
Kristina Ohlsson is a political scientist and until recently held the position of Counter-Terrorism Officer at OSCE (the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe). She has previously worked at the Swedish Security Service, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and the Swedish National Defense College, where she was a junior expert on the Middle East conflict and the foreign policy of the European Union. Kristina lives in Stockholm.
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Michael Hjorth
Michael Hjorth is one of the owners and founders of the succesful production company Tre vänner, creating films for both TV and screen. Apart from screen writing he has also acted as executive producer for several films.
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The Sebastian Bergman series, which Hjorth has co-written together with Hans Rosenfeldt, has been a huge success in several countries and was also made into a TV series, aired by Swedish Television. -
Mark Ellis
Former barrister and businessman from Wales. Author of 6 books in the Frank Merlin WW2 detective series:
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Princes Gate (1) now retitled The Embassy Murders
Stalin’s Gold (2) now retitled In The Shadows Of The Blitz
Merlin At War (3) now retitled The French Spy
A Death In Mayfair (4)
Dead In The Water (5)
Death Of An Officer (6)
Ellis has also written a short history, Boom Time: True Crime in WW2 London
Merlin 3 was nominated for a CWA Dagger
‘Must-read for murder mystery lovers’ Daily Mail
‘Masterly….compelling’ Bestselling historian Andrew Roberts'
‘Unputdownable’ WW2 historian Robert Lyman
‘Dead In The Water is to my shame the first Mark Ellis book I’ve read. If the others evoke a vanished London so impressively, are graced with such complex plots an -
Samuel Bjørk
Samuel Bjørk is the pen name of Norwegian novelist, playwright and singer/songwriter Frode Sander Øien.
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Bjørk’s first installment in the Mia and Munch Series, I’m Traveling Alone, is an international success story that has gained critical acclaim and captivated readers all over the world, including hitting #1 on German newspaper Der Spiegel‘s bestseller list.
Samuel Bjørk has been compared to the likes of both Stieg Larsson and Jo Nesbø, and has proved himself to be a force to be reckoned with in the crime genre. -
C.M. Ewan
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I write nerve-shredding thrillers about ordinary situations gone wrong -- the kind of thing that could happen to any of us!
My latest thriller THE INTERVIEW is about a seemingly normal job interview that turns out to be something very different and unexpected. It will be published in February 2022.
I'm also the author of A WINDOW BREAKS, a page-turning thriller that asks the question: what would you do if you woke up at 2 a.m. to hear somebody in your home?
I love to hear from readers and always respond to every email I receive.
You can contact me via:
my website www.chrisewan.com
on Twitter @chrisewan
on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/chrisewanauthor
or on Instagram @c.m.ewan
Writing as Chris Ewan, I'm also the author of SAFE HOUSE, DARK TIDE -
Jonathan Freedland
Jonathan Freedland is a British journalist. He also writes thrillers under the pseudonym Sam Bourne.
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Stefan Ahnhem
”As a kid, I never dreamt of being a writer. Putting letters in the right order to form words did not come easily to me. In school, while the rest of my class had Swedish lessons, a strange-smelling lady would pull me out of the classroom to play with wooden blocks painted with colourful letters.
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For as long as I can remember, however, I have been a passionate storyteller. Growing up as an only child undoubtedly sparked my creativity, and all the hours spent playing by myself fed my vivid imagination. My grandfather’s rocking chair was a marvellous spacecraft able to transport me to all the planets in the universe. And the world map that my teacher stubbornly refused to pull down revealed precisely where the secret treasure was buried.
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Anne Holt
Anne Holt was born in Larvik, grew up in Lillestrøm and Tromsø, and moved to Oslo in 1978. She graduated with a law degree from the University of Bergen in 1986, and went on to work for The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) and then the Oslo Police Department, earning her right to practice as a lawyer in Norway. In 1990 she returned to NRK, where she worked one year as a journalist and anchor woman for the news program Dagsrevyen.
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Holt started her own law practice in 1994, and served as Minister of Justice in Cabinet Jagland for a short period from November 25, 1996 to February 4, 1997.
In 1993 Holt made her debut as a novelist with the crime novel Blind gudinne, featuring the lesbian police officer Hanne Wilhelmsen. The two novels Løv -
Jørgen Jæger
Jørgen Jæger er en kritikerrost norsk krimforfatter. Som forfatter er han kjent for en serie kriminalromaner med lensmann Ole Vik i rollen som etterforsker. Bøkene er frittstående, men man vil følge dramatiske hendelser i hovedpersonenes liv fra bok til bok.
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Han debuterte som kriminalromanforfatter med "Skyggejakten" i 2003. Jægers endelige gjennombrudd kom i 2012 med kriminalroman "Stemmen", hans sjette utgivelse.
Jægers sjette kriminalroman, "Stemmen", hans åttende, "Monster", hans niende, "Fortielsen" og hans tiende, "Guden", ble alle nominert til Bokhandlerprisen i 2012, 2015, 2016 og 2017.
Han har også skrevet kriminalnoveller.
I 2016 ble det solgt hele 130.000 eksemplarer av bøkene hans i Norge. -
Luc Deflo
Luc Deflo was een van de bekendste en spannendste Vlaamse thrillerauteurs. Meer dan 15 jaar schreef hij de ene bestseller na de andere. Hij onderscheide zich vooral door de psychologische profielen die hij schetste. In 2008 won hij de Hercule Poirotprijs. In 2014 bewees hij met ‘Intifada’ dat hij nog steeds tot de ‘crème de la crème’ behoorde en ook niet verlegen zat om wat controverse. Later dat jaar schreef hij in duo met Aloka Liefrink ‘Onderhuids’.
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Luc Deflo in de Nederlandstalige Wikipedia
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Kauko Röyhkä
Kauko Röyhkä, born Jukka-Pekka Välimaa, is a Finnish rock musician and author.
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Mladen Milinov
Mladen Milinov rođen je 1981. u Beogradu, glavnom gradu tadašnje SFRJ. Pripovedanjem ga je začarala baka Dragica, koja je svaku priču pričala kao da joj se dešava pred očima.
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Iako je završio studije književnosti, veliki je zaljubljenik u film i video-igre. Na video-igre ne uspeva da dođe na red od ćerki, pa se poražen povlači u kuhinju i mahnito peče palačinke, gde mu društvo pravi uvek nasmejana supruga s knjigom u ruci.Pisanjem glumi i režira priče koje ga prate kroz život uz pažljivo izabranu plejlistu.
Baš kada je počeo da se miri s mogućnošću da će za njegove priče biti mesta samo uz palačinke i pekmez, dešava se konkurs izdavačke kuće Booka 2022, na kom je njegov roman Proročica ušao u najuži izbor. To mu daje silovit vetar u leđa da na -
Espen Skjerven
Espen Skjerven (f. 1974) er født og oppvokst i Oslo. Han bor i Sandnes med ektefelle og to barn.
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Skjerven jobber som tingrettsdommer i Sør-Rogaland tingrett. Han er også medlem av dommernes mediegruppe og Konkurranseklagenemnda. Han har bakgrunn som politiadvokat i Økokrim og Kripos og som forretningsadvokat/prosedyreadvokat.
På fritiden er han forfatter. Han har skrevet en krimserie om politimannen Tom Grayston: Slakt (2019), Blod er tykkere enn vann (2021), Kleptokratiet (2022) og Svikere (2024).
Ingenting å skjule (2025) er Skjervens første skjønnlitterære roman. Skjerven opplevde selv å miste håret som barn, og selv om historien er fiktiv, er den inspirert av egne erfaringer.
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