ANKI EDVINSSON

Atmospheric procedural crime
exploring burning contemporary issues

Crime fiction

SHADOW GIRL

SONGBIRD

MERMAID

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

Awarded the French Prix Polar International de Cognac 2025 for Snow Angel

Anki Edvinsson is a journalist and former tv presenter, who now writes full-time. She lives in Stockholm with her family, but has previously lived in Umeå while studying criminology. Snow Angel (2021) sold more than 100 000 copies, and since then the series has sold 300 000 copies in nine markets.

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.

Anki 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. 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, and there and then she began writing the crime novel that later became her debut. After eight years living in Umeå, 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.

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 alone, and 300 000 in total. The setting is in the north of Sweden featuring investigator Charlotte von Klint and her colleagues.