Nina De Geer is a Stockholm based writer. She’s working on a new atmospheric crime series that introduces the tough but warm police inspector Defne living in a Stockholm suburb. The first instalment, Obey, was published in 2026.

Nina is a former archaeologist and social worker – two professions that influence her creative work and keen interest in digging deep into human character and mind.

While still an aspiring author, her podcast Debut or Die on literature and creative writing became a popular phenomenon and venue for published authors and editors in Sweden.

She made her fiction debut with Sommarsorger in 2022. The novel was nominated for the Adlibris Prize and featured on Babel, a well-known Swedish literary talk show. There, it was praised as “a fantastically well written debut novel that deeply affects the reader”.

Early 2026 Nina made her crime debut at Albert Bonniers Förlag with Få dem att lyda (Obey), the first instalment in the Defne-series.

Agent: Elin Sandström Lundh

Published January 2026, Albert Bonniers
Genre Crime
Pages 420

Rights sold
Norway: Aschehoug
German: Bastei Lübbe
French: Gallmeister
Film&TV: Sold

During a cold Walpurgis weekend in Stockholm, four nine-year-old boys vanish without a trace. The solitary and sharp-witted police inspector Defne Isik is put in charge of the investigation. Ever since her criminal brother Benji disappeared, Defne has buried herself in work, shutting out everything else.

As the strange kidnapping case unfolds, she becomes consumed by it and reluctantly agrees to collaborate with her new partner, Joel Andreasson.

When a startling twist turns the case on its head, it seems, for a moment, that the mystery has been solved. But Defne senses that the police may have been deceived. What happened to the missing boys — and what dark purpose does the kidnapper have for them?