CHARLOTTE AL-KHALILI

Rights
Denmark
Finland
Norway
Sweden

Awards and Nominations 
2025 – Nominated for the Swedish Storytel Awards for When Everything is Over
2022 – Nominated for Best Crime Debut of the Year for Maelstrom by The Swedish Academy of Crime Fiction.

Charlotte Al-Khalili writes contemporary crime fiction and suspense. With a bachelor’s degree in legal science and a passion for true crime, her novels have a realistic style with dark undertones. Inspired by the newspaper headlines, she often depicts how regular people get entangled in circumstances beyond their control, and their struggle to navigate uncharted waters.

Her first book, Reap the Whirlwind, was published in 2018. It’s a chilling tale of the malicious and Machiavellian quest for power in a workplace, and the trail of collateral damage that follows. The conflicts and double crossings are laced with sharp wit and are recognized by those who have ever encountered a corporate psychopath.

In 2022, her second novel, Maelstrom was published by Norstedts. Taking a new approach to traditional storytelling, Maelstrom is written from multiple perspectives, where each character is experiencing their own version of reality. They are all heroes in their own lives, and are also their own worst enemies. The core of the narrative is the murder of a young man. Maelstrom is saturated with themes of betrayal, absent fathers, and fractured relationships and was nominated as “Best Crime Debut of the Year” by the Swedish Academy of Crime Fiction 2022.

In 2024 Charlotte Al-Khalili started a new series of crime novels introducing the sharp Olivia Oldenheim in the prosecutor’s office as the main character. When Everything is Over reveals a story deeply rooted in domestic abuse, escape and the pursuit of redemption. The second installment to be published in Spring 2025.

Though living in Stockholm, Charlotte’s best writing is done in the quiet countryside in Barva, away from the capital where her novels are set. When she is not busy building fictional worlds, she enjoys travelling in the real one.

Bibliography

2025 – In Plain Sight (Där ingen letar), crime fiction
2024 – When Everything is Over (När allt är över), crime fiction
2022 – Maelstrom (Malström), crime fiction
2018 – Reap the Whirlwind (Skörda storm), suspense

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