LINNEA SCHUMACHER is a trained criminologist and conducts research on intimate partner violence among young people, with a special focus on perpetrators, at the Department of Criminology at Malmö University, and an affiliated researcher at the University of Cambridge.

Before transitioning to criminology, Linnea worked for many years in film and TV production, both in Sweden and internationally.

In September 2023, Linnea made her debut as an author with her suspense novel I bergets skugga (“In the shadow of the mountain”) set in Arild, southern Sweden, where Linnea was born and raised.

Linnea’s new crime series about criminologist Nora Storm is published by Gyldendal Astra.

Agent Maja Hjelm

PUBLISHED GYLDENDAL ASTRA 2026
GENRE CRIME

ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE

The first part of the new Nora Storm crime series.

Criminologist Nora Storm is forced to leave Cambridge and return home to Kullaberg in Skåne, South Sweden, to take care of her seriously ill mother. In the fishing village of Arild, her quiet father and her old hometown await, where everything on the surface seems to be just as it always has been – peaceful and beautiful.

The tranquillity is shattered when an arson attack rocks the Kullabygden area. The victims of the flames have close ties to Vanessa Ceder, a successful interior designer whose life is in ruins.

Detectives Marie Borg and Lucas Silver cross paths with Nora and begin working together to stop the arsonist before more lives are lost. Soon they realise that the flames are only the beginning.