Mari Jungstedt is a journalist and author, and her literary debut came in 2003 with the first novel about Commissioner Anders Knutas, set on Gotland. Since then, her books have sold more than 6.5 million copies in Sweden alone, and she has been published in over 20 different countries – making her one of Sweden’s most successful thriller authors. She’s been dubbed “One of Scandinavia’s best crime writers” by The Times, and rightly so.

The Knutas series has attracted a large and enthusiastic readership, and so has her Gran Canaria series. In 2020, Mari launched a new series, The Málaga Suite, with the first instalment selling more than 230,000 copies.

The latest instalment in The Málaga Suite series is When the Stars Fall (2025). When the Cuckoo Falls Silent is the first book in her new The Polar Series, published in autumn 2026.

Agents: Erik Larsson & Elin Sandström Lundh

Published Norstedts, October 2026
Genre Crime
Pages 320

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The first book in Mari Jungstedt’s The Polar Series

The first instalment in Jungstedt’s new, epic crime series. A dark and atmospheric tale set against the backdrop of the Jämtland mountains and the desolate expanses of the Arctic.

Detective Inspector Nora Jensen has been forced to leave Stockholm at short notice after a scandal at work made her situation untenable. In the remote ski resort of Storlien, near the Norwegian border, she has been tasked with setting up a small police station to tackle the rising crime rate across the border. Nora envisions peaceful, uneventful days ahead and the chance for a fresh start in life. But the idyllic atmosphere is shattered when an elderly man is found murdered in the mountains, and his wife has vanished without a trace. The clues lead far beyond the small border town – to Svalbard in the Arctic Ocean. The case stirs up strong emotions in Nora, as she grew up on the Arctic Archipelago. As the murder investigation draws ever closer to her own past, Nora is forced to come to terms with the trauma she has spent her entire adult life trying to escape.

With a complex and multi-faceted protagonist, Mari Jungstedt has created a crime novel set in an evocative landscape where snowstorms, the midnight sun and old conflicts provide the backdrop. A novel about guilt, revenge and secrets – where neither snow, ice nor polar darkness can conceal the crimes that have been committed.

Published Albert Bonniers, June 2025
Genre Crime
Pages 290

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The third instalment in the Málaga Suite series

A Swedish woman is found burnt to death in a sauna in an exclusive villa in Marbella. As the sauna door had been blocked from the outside, it is clear to Homicide Detective Hector Correa and his colleagues at the Málaga Police Department that this is a homicide. Who could have wanted Malin García dead so badly? The Swedish woman led a comfortable, luxurious life with her wealthy Spanish husband and had no obvious enemies. When Lisa Hagel, who has been hired as a reporter for the magazine Svenska Magasinet, begins to unravel the case, she is drawn into a world of glamorous facades with a terrifying darkness lurking beneath the surface.

At the same time, she and Hector Correa have resumed their previously broken-off contact.

Amidst these glamorous surroundings, a perpetrator is on the loose, one who will not hesitate to kill again.