ANNA KAROLINA
Crime and punishment with considerable accuracy
Crime fiction Ebba Tapper
Crime fiction Amanda Paller
Fiction
Rights and Awards
Australia
Czech Republic
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Japan
Poland
Russia
Sweden
UK/USA
Film Rights
Awards and Nominations
2023 – Nominated for the Swedish Audio Awards for The Mole
2022 – Nominated for Storytel Awards, Best Crime fiction of the year
2021 – Nominated for Storytel Awards, Best Crime fiction of the year
2020 – Nominated for Storytel Awards, Best Crime fiction of the year
2016 – Nominated for Storytel Awards, Best Crime fiction of the year
2015 – Nominated for Storytel Awards, Best Crime fiction of the year
2014 – Nominated for Storytel Awards, Best Crime fiction of the year
2014 – Nominated for Crime Time Award, Best debut crime novel of the year
Anna Karolina is the Police officer who became a writer. Entering a writer’s education in the middle of her career was the first leap to what was going to be an outstanding authorship. By portraying the antiheroes, their complicated relationships, and their fight against everyone – including themselves – she quickly became one of Sweden’s most notable crime authors.
Both critics and readers were amazed when Anna Karolina’s first novel The Baboon (formerly named Savage Congress) appeared on the bookshelves. The book was the first one in the series about the notorious Police officer Amanda Paller and the cash-in-transit robber Adnan Nasimi. Anna Karolina got her inspiration for the books from her own career at the Robbery Unit in Sweden. But she didn’t want her books to portray solely the investigators, but the lives of the criminals as well. She wanted to tell the story about how leaving criminal activities isn’t always risk free.
With her fifteen years of experience Anna Karolina created a world of crime and punishment with considerable accuracy. So much so that her books have become wildly popular amongst people being held in custody. If you would like to read Anna Karolina’s books after being arrested, you would have to sign up on a waiting list.
Anna Karolina has two parallel series running. The Amanda Paller series keeps holding the readers in a firm grip. In the Ebba Tapper series, she has created two strong female protagonist who do not always agree on how the law should be interpreted, but they need each other and their different skills come together to solve the complex cases that Angela Köhler’s law firm takes on.
Anna Karolina has also written the stand alone thriller Seven Figures (Sjusiffrigt) and co-written two books in the Herkules-series with the Swedish author Mons Kallentoft.
Bibliography Ebba Tapper series
2024– The Force (Styrkan), crime novel
2021 – The Bodyguard (Livvakten), crime novel
2020 – The Defender (Försvararen), crime novel
Bibliography Amanda Paller series
2022 – The Mole (Mullvaden), crime novel
2016 – The Swine (Svinet), (formerly: Lost Face (Förlorat ansikte)), crime novel
2015 – The Cannibal (Kannibalen), (formerly: And None Remain (Står dig ingen åter)), crime novel
2014 – The Baboon (Babianen), (formerly: Savage Congress/Stöld av babian)), crime novel
Other bibliography
2018 – 2019 – Co-writer for the Herkules-series, Falco and Albino
2017 – Seven Figures (Sjusiffrigt), crime novel