CHRISTINA WAHLDÉN
Christina Wahldén is an award-winning author and journalist. She made her debut in 1998 with the young adult novel Kort kjol (Short skirt), which deals with rape. She has since written more than 70 books for children, young adults, and adults.
During her years as a crime reporter at the morning paper Svenska Dagbladet, she mainly covered violence against women and girls, such as sexual crimes and honour-based violence, and many of her books deal with crime. She has a degree in journalism from University of Gothenburg, but has also studied theatre history at Stockholm University and dramaturgy at University of New South Wales, Sydney. She is a member of the Swedish Academy of Crime Fiction and Swedish PEN.
Her latest novel is Death’s Sleep, the first book in her new Uppsala Suite series..
Photo: Joel Nilsson
Agent: Moa Alfvén
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DEATH’S SLEEP
Crime reporter Kicki Ersson has been fired from Uppsala Newspaper, and her husband has left her for a younger woman. Seeking solace, she attends a meditation night at Uppsala Cathedral. Soon after, a participant in the session is found murdered. Kicki sees her chance — can she get her job back if she exposes the killer?
To save money, Kicki rents out a room. Strangely enough, her tenant is Truls Thanatos, the police officer leading the investigation. Truls, who is blind and has a guide dog, is living under threat. One day, he disappears. It’s up to Kicki, Truls’ teenage daughter Hjördis, and the guide dog Nyx to take up the chase, and the trail leads in an unexpected direction. Are all those close to the church truly good? And does age really matter when it comes to love?
Death’s Sleep is the first part in the Uppsala Suite series.
PUBLISHED PIA & CO, May 2026
GENRE SUSPENSE
PAGES 300
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GENTLEMEN OF WAR
PUBLISHED harper collins, April 2025
GENRE HISTORICAL SUSPENSE
PAGES 288
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ESTONIA – varrak
November 1944: As World War II approaches its final phase, the Women's Voluntary Defence Corps on Gotland works tirelessly, providing shelter and sustenance to Baltic refugees fleeing the conflict. Yet amidst this humanitarian effort, troubling questions arise about certain Finnish war children arriving on the island. Is young Toivo from Karelia truly orphaned, or is there more to his story? And what trauma has rendered him silent?
Police sisters Rut and Svea are assigned to infiltrate the women's corps and uncover the truth. But when Rut waits anxiously at Visby harbour for the S/S Hansa carrying her colleague — a vessel that never arrives — she faces the grim realisation that the vessel has been lost.
In Stockholm, the dying Countess Lussan Kagg contemplates a different mystery: who will inherit her family estate now that the crucial deed of entail has vanished? In these final days of war, who deserves her trust? Are there any true gentlemen left in a world consumed by conflict?
This compelling thriller marks the final instalment in the Police Sisters series, following the acclaimed Lessons in Ungentlemanly Warfare and No Admission.
NO ADMISSION
PUBLISHED harper collins, 2024
GENRE HISTORICAL SUSPENSE
PAGES 311
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ESTONIA – varrak
On the tiny island of Enholmen, strange things are happening late in the summer of 1944. Soldiers are found murdered and World War II is still raging outside Sweden.
On a remote farm, the police sisters Svea and Rut train in silent killing and Morse code under British command, alongside Countess Lussan Kagg and her group of resistance women. After that, the cell travels undercover and in disguise to try to solve the mystery at Enholmen. A very skilful mask designer at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm is helping them with the details. The number of Baltic refugees arriving in small open boats are increasing and the situation is escalating.
During all this, Stockholm is called the Casablanca of the North, due to all the spies living in the capital. At Grand Hôtel, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has set up a press room for foreign correspondents. Lussan does not get the support she wants from her younger brother Angus, but is involuntarily entrapped in a crime involving him.
Looted art from the continent and unconventional surveillance methods are some of the ingredients in the sequel to the popular historical crime novel Lessons in Ungentlemanly Warfare.
LESSONS IN UNGENTLEMANLY WARFARE
