ANNA JANSSON

High excitement and ethical dilemmas

Crime fiction - Kristoffer Bark series

IN DEFENSE OF EVIL

AT ANY COST

MAY ETERNITY FORGIVE

TALKING TO THE DEAD

Puppet on a String

THE SHADOW BEHIND YOU

Daughter Missing

Crime fiction - Maria Wern series

LABYRINTH OF FEAR

VICTIMS OF THE UNKNOWN

SWIFT WINGS OF DEATH

Bad Dreams

The Watchmen of Gallows Hill

The Death List

My Heart Is Yours

Woman on the Bench

What You Do Not Know

Prisoners of Fear

Everyone Can See You

Child of the Shadows

A Dance on Glowing Embers

When Beauty Came to Town

The Eternal Flame of Alchemy

Killer’s Island

Not Until the Giver is Dead

Not Even the Past

Boy Missing

Strange Bird

Black Butterfly

Dreams of Snow

The Silver Crown

May Death Sleep

All the Tranquil Dead

The Speechless God

AUDIO/DIGITAL

WINTER MOON

YOU WERE MINE

WINTER STAR

DEADLY BETRAYAL

A Cry in the Dark

VINTER HEART

PLAYING WITH FIRE

All You Wish For

Summer Night

The Death Always Speaks the Truth

For the Ones I Love

BLOOD ON THE DANCE FLOOR

Feel Good fiction

A Very Merry Christmas at Salon d’Amour

An Unexpected Love Story

Partners Out of Step

Mothers-in-Law Unlimited

The Goddess of Faith at Salon d’Amour

Children's fiction - The Twin Detective series

THE ROBOT THEIF

THE SILVER COIN

THE PRISON CAVE

Children's fiction - The Emil Wern series

THE POWER THEIF

EMIL WERN AND THE GOTLANDS MYSTERIES 2

APRIL, APRIL

The Villian Photographer

THE GOTLAND MYSTERIES

WORLD RECORD AT CHRSTMAS

THE WORST THEIF

THE GOLD RING MYSTERY

THE BICYCLE THEIF

THE LOTTERY SCAM

THE CAT THEIF

MYSTERIOUS MESSAGE

THE MAIL THEIF

THE CHRISTMAS THEIF

BROTHER GONE MISSING

FOUL PLAY

THE PIRATE ISLAND

THE HAUNTED HOUSE

THE SHIP MYSTERY

THE PICKPOCKETS

THE ILLEGAL WASTE

THE KNIGHTS JOUSTING

THE CLASS FUND

THE SILVER TREASURE

THE BANK ROBBERY

Rights and Awards

Rights for adult fiction

Canada
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Hungary
Iceland
Israel
Italy
Japan
Latvia
The Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Russia
Spain
Sweden
Turkey
UK
USA

Rights for children’s fiction

Albania
Denmark
Finland
Norway
Sweden

Film Rights

The Maria Wern series: Warner Brother Nordic, Sweden

Awards & nominations

2025 – Nominated for the Swedish Storytel Awards for At Any Cost
2025 – Nominated for the Finnish Storytel Awards for Talking to the Dead
2024 – Awarded the Norstedtaren for May Eternity Forgive
2024 – Nominated for the Adlibris Award Finland for Talking to the Dead
2024 – Awarded the Norstedtaren for Swift Wings of Death
2024 – Nominated for the Swedish Storytel Awards for Swift Wings of Death
2024 – Nominated for the Adlibris Award Finland for Puppet on a String
2023 – Awarded the Norstedtaren for Talking to the Dead
2023 – Awarded the Norstedtaren for Bad Dreams
2023 – Nominated for the Adlibris Award for Swift Wings of Death
2023 – Nominated for the Swedish Storytel Awards (two titles)
2022 – Awarded the Norstedtaren for The Watchmen of Gallow Hills
2022 – Awarded the Norstedtaren for Puppet on a String
2022 – Nominated for the Swedish Storytel Awards (2 titles)
2022 – Nominated for the Danish Audio Award
2021 – Awarded the Norstedtaren for The Shadow Behind You
2021 – Awarded the Norstedtaren for The Death List
2021 – Honorary Award at CrimeTime
2020 – Winner of The Culture Prize in Memory of Hjalmar Bergman
2018 – Nominated for The Swedish Audio Award (2 titles)
2018 – Nominated for the Crimetime Award
2017 – Nominated for The Swedish Audio Award (2 titles)
2006 – Nominated for the Swedish Academy of Crime Writers’ Award (Best Swedish Crime Novel)

Anna Jansson was born and raised in Visby and now lives in Örebro with her family. Before becoming a full-time writer, Anna worked as a nurse for many years. This has inspired her to write about people’s relationships with life and death, and she always adds ethical dilemmas to her stories.

Anna Jansson is one of Sweden’s most popular crime writers. Since her debut with The Speechless God in 2000, her novels about the energetic and good-hearted police inspector Maria Wern have sold over 7 million copies and been translated into twenty languages. The film and TV series, starring acclaimed Swedish actress Eva Röse, has been a success in Sweden and Germany and has been broadcast in over 60 countries. In 2022, the ninth season of the TV series started filming.

In 2019, Anna Jansson turned to her second hometown, Örebro, and started a new series, which runs parallel to Maria Wern. Daughter Missing is the first book in the Kristoffer Bark series, where readers get to know a new colourful team in the police department investigating cold cases. Each with their own history, weakness and strengths. The Shadow Behind You is the second book and is a story about power and manipulation, fear and inadequacy. A frightening depiction of how a perfectly functioning life can be torn into pieces. The third book in the Kristoffer Bark series, Puppet on a String, is a detective story that spans four generations of women. It is also a love story set in the shadow of the Västra Marks mental hospital that operated from 1930 to its closure in the 1980s.

Örebro is an entirely different setting from the sunny Gotland we find in the Maria Wern books. However, readers will recognise Anna Jansson’s talent for mastering hair-raising crime and her beloved characters’ inner lives. The Kristoffer Bark series is a bit darker in tone but be sure her trademark is still there – Anna Jansson cares and takes care of her characters, and she’s a fantastic storyteller.

With the charming stories of warm-hearted hairdresser and matchmaker Angelika Lagermark, also known as The Goddess of Fate, Anna Jansson also entertains readers in the feel-good genre while writing about life and death, love and the longing for love.

Anna Jansson has created two series for younger readers. The Emil Wern series, a children’s book series about the son of Maria Wern, 11-year-old Emil Wern, who started his own detective agency and solves mysteries.
The Twin Detective series are detective novels about the twins Tim and Tina solving tricky mysteries on the idyllic island of Gotland, and they get help from an unexpected way …

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