REBECKA E. ALDÉN
Characters you can’t trust, twists you won’t guess!
The Sea Rescue series
WHITE SHADOWS
BLUE DUSK
RED AUGUST MOON
THE SEA RESCUE SERIES – BLACK SAILS
Psychological thrillers, standalone
DEADLINE
Wilted Flowers
The Eight Deadly Sin
Rights The Sea Rescue series
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
The Netherlands
Norway
Sweden
Rights standalones
Czech Republic
Denmark
Germany
The Netherlands
France
Hungary
Iceland
Russia
Sweden
Awards and nomination
Rebecka E. Aldén is a former journalist that debuted in 2015 with her psychological thriller The Eighth Deadly Sin, that was shortlisted Best Debut of the Year by The Swedish Academy of Crime Writers. Rebecka has been actively involved for many years as a moderator at the crime fiction festival Crimetime and has served as chair of the jury for the Crimetime Award since 2018. In addition, she works as a freelance editor and manuscript consultant, and teaches in creative writing. Rebecka E. Aldén has written several stand alone titles in the suspense genre and 2022 she started the Sea Rescue series, a suspense series set in the Stockholm archipelago which has sold over 130 000 copies in Sweden and are sold to five markets.
Rebecka E. Aldén’s novels can best be described as domestic noir where there are no winners or losers. They don’t include that much police work, the tension is rather build up between the characters, and her books have been compared to Paula Hawkins’ and Gillian Flynn’s. After her literary debut in 2015, she has written two more standalone psychological thrillers. She has also co-written Isabella together with Isabella Löwengrip, which has sold over 30 000 copies in Sweden and won Nextory E-book Awards 2021 in the category Biography & Reportage.
Rebecka E. Aldén is an avid sailor and has spent most of her summers, both as a child and adult, in the Stockholm and Åbo archipelago where she and her husband have a summer cottage. In summer 2022, the first book in the Sea Rescue series was published, Black Sails, an intense and claustrophobic sibling drama that takes place on a sailboat. The series is well-crafted suspense with psychological insight and well-rounded characters, set in the Stockholm Archipelago. The series has sold over 130 000 copies in Sweden.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Sea Rescue series
2025 – White Shadows (Vita skuggor), suspense novel
2024 – Blue Dusk (Blå skymning), suspense novel
2023 – Red August Moon (Röd augustimåne), suspense novel
2022 – Black Sails (Svarta segel), suspense novel
Standalones
2020 – Deadline (Deadline), psychological thriller
2017 – Wilted Flowers (Och blomstren dö), psychological thriller
2015 – The Eighth Deadly Sin (Den åttonde dödssynden), psychological thriller
Author photo
Linda Broström. For photo rights please contact info@lindisima.se