Arne Dahl

The Swedish crime writer Arne Dahl remained a pseudonym for five years. That is five books - and half of his lifetime. His plan was to write a series of ten successive but independent crime novels about an elite force within the Swedish police, called the Intercrime. And at the same time capture the swift social changes in Europe during the years around the turn of the millennium. After five books, a face appeared from the shadows. It was in the mid-nineties that the writer Jan Arnald mixed the letters of his surname and became Arne Dahl.

The Intercrime series of ten books is now complete. They are unusual crime novels, hardcore thrillers with a literary touch and a mastery of style, with a good sense of humour, an unprecedented depth of character and an urge to plunge deep into the social problems of contemporary Europe. Books very hard to put down.

Books in the Intercrime-series has been translated into German, Italian, Dutch, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, Finnish, Spanish, French, Slovenian, Russian, Portugese and Hungarian. The books are right now being translated for the English-speaking market and will be published during 2010.