ANKI EDVINSSON

Atmospheric procedural crime
exploring burning contemporary issues

Crime fiction

SHADOW GIRL


SONGBIRD


MERMAID

MERMAID


Snow Angel

Snow Angel


DESIRE TO KILL

Rights

Czech Republic
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Lithuania
Norway
Sweden
UK/US (WER)

Awards and nominations

2025 – Awarded the French Prix Polar International de Cognac for Snow Angel
2025 – Nominated to the Swedish Storytel Awards for Songbird
2024 – Nominated to “Best crime novel in translation 2024” at The Crime Fiction Lover Awards for Snow Angel
2023 – Nominated to the Swedish Storytel Award for Mermaid
2022 – Awarded ‘Norstedtaren’ for having surpassed 100 000 copies sold of Snow Angel
2022 – Nominated to the Swedish Storytel Award for Snow Angel

Anki Edvinsson is a journalist and former tv presenter, who now writes full-time.  She lives in Stockholm with her family, and has previously lived in Umeå while studying criminology. Snow Angel (2021) sold more than 100 000 copies, and since then the series has sold 400 000 copies, in nine markets. Snow Angel has been awarded the French Prix Polar International de Cognac 2025.

Anki is a familiar face to many Swedes from her former career in the media, where she worked as a television host, reporter, and weather forecaster. Moving from Stockholm, Anki and her husband relocated to Umeå in the north of Sweden, where her husband grew up. In Umeå she joined the local news team, and it is also the city her crime series is set.

Anki spent a lot of her childhood in a police station, spending her time with her police father and brother. Her older brother also made a career within the police force so there has always been discussions around the dinner table. When researching her debut crime novel, Anki became curious to get under the skin of her characters, and wanted to explore the causes of crime, what makes a person choose that path, who becomes a murderer? As a result, she started studying criminology at Umeå University while writing.

The von Klint & Berg series has sold 400 000 copies, and been published in nine markets. It is set in the north of Sweden featuring investigator Charlotte von Klint and her colleagues.

Bibliography

2026 – Shadow Girl (Skuggflickan), crime novel
2024 – Songbird (Sångfågeln), crime novel
2022 – Mermaid (Sjöjungfrun), crime novel
2021 – Snow Angel (Snöängeln), crime novel
2018 – Desire to Kill (Lust att döda), crime novel

Author photo

 

Anna-Lena Ahlström. For photo rights, please contact the photographer at https://www.annalenaahlstrom.se/