ANKI EDVINSSON
Nerve-shredding procedural crime
Crime fiction
SONGBIRD
MERMAID
Snow Angel
Rights
Czech Republic
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Lithuania
Norway
Sweden
UK/US (WER)
Film Rights
Scandinavian Content Group
Awards and nominations
2024 – Nominated for “Best crime novel in translation 2024” at The Crime Fiction Lover Awards (Snow Angel)
2023 – Nominated for the Swedish Audio Award (Mermaid)
2022 – Awarded the Norstedtaren (Snow Angel)
2022 – Nominated for the Swedish Audio Award (Snow Angel)
Anki Edvinsson is a familiar face to many Swedes as from her former career on television, where she worked as a tv-host, journalist, and weather forecaster. Edvinsson more or less grew up at a police station, spending her time with her father and his police colleagues. Her older brother also made a career within the police force so there has always been discussions around the dinner table.
Anki Edvinsson moved from Stockholm to Umeå in the north of Sweden, where her husband grew up. There she joined the local news team. When she decided to follow her long-time dream of becoming an author and signed up for a writing course, picking a genre was easy. There and then she began writing the crime novel that later became her debut. After eight years in ther town, with valuable insights from her years as a reporter, the setting of the book of course became her second hometown, Umeå.
When researching for the novel, Edvinsson’s interest for crime and psychology reawakened. She became curious to get to know her characters and wanted to explore the causes of crime, what makes a person choose that path, who becomes a murderer? She started studying criminology at Umeå University, which she has continued with the aim of a bachelor’s degree.
Edvinsson made her author debut in 2018. With Snow Angel, her second crime novel and the first one published by Norstedts, she had her big breakthrough with over 100 000 copies sold in Sweden alone. Mermaid was published in 2022 and in 2024 the third book in the von Klint & Berg-series was released, Songbird. Edvinsson has sold more than 200 000 copies in Sweden. The setting is in the north of Sweden featuring investigator Charlotte von Klint and her colleagues at the police station in the town Umeå.
Bibliography
2024 – Songbird (Sångfågeln), crime novel
2022 – Mermaid (Sjöjungfrun), crime novel
2021 – Snow Angel (Snöängeln), crime novel