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Anna Jansson

High excitement and ethical dilemmas

 

Anna Jansson grew up with storytelling. Everything she writes, criminal novels, children’s books and nonfiction, is pervaded with the intensity typical for fairy tales. Anna Jansson worked as nurse for many years. When she began to write her drive was to tell stories about people she met at the hospital. In a genre full of sudden, wicked death, Anna Jansson also manages to keep a discussion about present ethical problems concerning people’s relation to life and death.

 

The stories roll back and forth. Anna Jansson is a master of tempo changes, from descriptive where the story needs it, to thrilling action when the investigation escalates or the relations between the characters are intensified.

 

Anna Jansson finds a unique tone for each character in the book. The main character is Maria Wern, who becomes much more than a police when the reader in book after book is allowed to move deeper and deeper into her private life and feelings.

 

2005 Anna Jansson’s The Silver Crown (Silverkronan) received an award (Guldpocket) for over 50000 sold copies. Her book Strange Bird (Främmande fågel) was 2006 nominated to Glasnyckeln (The Glass Key), the price for best Scandinavian crime novel.

 

Strange Bird has also made a success as a TV-series in Sweden, with Eva Röse portraying Maria Wern.

 

Besides writing crime novels Anna Jansson holds lectures in ethical issues of medical care and has written a number of books on the topic. She also writes children’s books.

 

Author's home page: www.thriller.nu

 

Bibliography

• 2012 – When Beauty Came to Town (När skönheten kom till Bro), crime novel
• 2011 – The Eternal Flame of Alchemy (Alkemins eviga eld), crime novel
• 2010 – Drama Queens. In a Life Close to You (Drama Queens. I ett liv nära dig), short novel collection
• 2010 – Sleepwalker (Drömmen förde dig vilse), crime novel
• 2009 – Not Until the Giver is Dead (Först när givaren är död), crime novel
• 2008 – Not Even the Past (Inte ens det förflutna), crime novel
• 2007 – Boy Missing (Pojke försvunnen), crime novel
• 2006 – Strange Bird (Främmande fågel), crime novel
• 2005 – Black Butterfly (Svart fjäril), crime novel
• 2004 – Dreams from Snow (Drömmar ur snö), crime novel
• 2003 – The Silver Crown (Silverkronan), crime novel
• 2002 – May Death Sleep (Må döden sova), crime novel
• 2002 – In the Storm You Shall Die (I stormen ska du dö), crime novel
• 2001 – All the Tranquil Dead (Alla de stillsamma döda), crime novel
• 2000 – The Speechless God (Stum sitter guden), crime novel

 

Bibliography children's books

• 2011 – The P ickpocket (Ficktjuven), children's detective novel
• 2011 – Forbidden Garbage (Förbjudna sopor), children's detective novel
• 2010 – The Knights Jousting (Riddarnas kamp), children's detective novel
• 2010 – The Class Fund (Klasskassan), children's detective novel
• 2010 – The Silver Treasure (Silverskatten), children's detective novel

• 2010 – The Bank Robbery (Bankrånet), children's detective novel

 

Reader's comments

Dear Mrs. Jansson,

I am writing to you to let you know how much I enjoy every single book written by you that I’ve read. I have always liked this kind of literature, and that is the reason because I bought all the collection written by the great Agatha Cristie (translated into Spanish), and I have to confess that after reading yours, I have enjoyed them as much as the ones by Christie! In some ways they are quite similar! That must be a great honour for you, as it means you have a wonderful talent! Indeed, that’s right!

 

 

"I think the book was good because it was alot of excitement and I could not stop reading." (Emil Wern reader)

 

Anna Jansson presents the Emil Wern series

 

Other Works

• 2008 – Craftsman  Sweat is More Expensive Than Saffron  (chronicles)
• 2007 – Fire, Yours and Mine, A Werewolf, No one to be With, The Hut, Mia –packet 1, Mia – packet 2, Mia Asks for a Date, Brave Mia, Monsters exist (children’s books for Bonnier Läromedel)
• 2007 – Ethical Dilemmas in Medical Care (co-writer Agneta Blom, Gothia förlag)
• 2005 – Ethical Dilemmas in Medical Care (co-writer Agneta Blom, Gothia förlag)
• 2003 – Judged for Murder (Dömd för mord), crime novel

 

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